According to global shipment number estimates from Canalys, smartphone shipments overtook total client PC shipment numbers for the first time in 2011. The so-called “total client PCs” category includes tablets, netbooks, laptops, and desktops.
Total smartphone shipments in Q4 2011 grew 57% over the same…
Netbook sales have been dropping off like flies ever since tablets like the iPad and the Galaxy Tab 10.1 have come onto the scene. However, there are still some people who would like a full computing experience in a small, inexpensive package. Currently Ultrabooks aren’t…
The ASUS Eee PC 1215 was the highest powered netbook on the market with NVIDIA’s Ion graphics core, its AMD variants indicated with the B tacked onto the end were equally as successful since they too provided additional graphics power. ASUS has not given up…
Wondering what to do with your old netbook? Well Colin Adamson has come up with Oculus Telepresence on Kickstarter, a website where you can crowd source funding to kick start your idea. Oculus Telepresence system simply mobilizes your webcam-equipped netbook for sentry duty.
The Oculus…
Looks like Dell has thrown in the towel on netbooks, if you go to their site and search for the Dell Mini 9, 10 or Duo you’ll discover that Dell’s netbook line up is no longer available. If you try to search for any of…
According to an e-mail Samsung sent to its trading partners, Samsung is discontinuing their 10.1-inch netbook line to focus on producing 11.6- and 12-inch Ultrabooks instead.
Quoted from the e-mail:
“Following the introduction of our new strategy in 2012, we will discontinue our 10.1-inch (netbook) …
Looking at the tablet market into 2012 the final quarter of 2011 is meant to remain steady an not see any growth. However, but Digitimes Research senior analyst James Wang believes that the zero-growth in the fourth quarter is the joint affect of Japan’s earthquake…
Android is not an operating system for keyboard devices, so this is another interesting product that probably will never leave Japan. NEC has come out with a 7 inch Android netbook that is only 9.9mm thick or less than 0.4″, that’s thinner then many Android…
Last week at AppUp! Elements 2011, there was an announcement made that MeeGo was going to be joining forces with the Intel, Samsung, the Linux Foundation behind Tizen a new open source software project. Asus has actually just released the Eee PC X101 a super…
ASUS has up dated their most popular SeaShell line netbook with 1015 series with the Asus Eee PC 1015BX which now features the AMD C-60 CPU. The device features the same 10 inch chassis with a 1024 x 600 screen resolution, 1GB of RAM and…
Cedar Trail, the next-generation Intel Atom processor, was talked up quite a bit here at IDF 2011. What I thought was interesting was the new “hybrid computer” product category that Intel talked about in one of their sessions for Cedar Trail.
They positioned the hybrid…
Intel’s Cedar Trail Netbooks were meant to hit the shelves in the 2nd half of 2011 with availablity for the Holiday Season. After attending the Tablet and Netbook Q&A we learned that Cedar Trail is on track for 2011 availbility but we won’t be able…
The ASUS Eee PC X101 netbook is finally available for pre order in the US for $210, its $10 more then we expected but its a great price for a budget PC. The ASUS X101 is an ultra thin netbook running the Linux operating system…
Those of you who use your computers on the go you’ll know how terrible glossy or glare display’s are. Even if you boost up the screen brightness you almost need to hack it to get it to a comfortable level where you’re not straining to…
Vietnam is a hot growth market for mobile as it is in a comparatively early stage of its telecommunications development. Over the past two years Vietnam has been aggressively expanding its telecommunication infrastructure and growing its subscriber bases across all market segments. The countries mobile…
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