October 15th 2008
Just in case you follow DigiTimes, I wanted to quickly address a claim they have on the new Samsung NC10’s battery life. I’m sure the information they were provided was either from marketing materials or someone in the Samsung PR department, but I’m not buying it. The claim I mean… the netbook looks tempting. [...]
October 15th 2008
Apricot Computers has returned to the UK with an entry into the netbook market.
Apricot’s “PicoBook Pro” is an 8.9-inch netbook boasting optional WiMAX support that will be priced at £279. Oh, and it’s tiny!!!!!
It runs either Linux or Windows XP, has a 60GB hard drive and boasts a battery life of 4 hours.
They even throw [...]
October 15th 2008
Well, the age of people like me is slowly coming to an end.
Bandai corp unveiled the at the Japan Robo Fair.
NetTansorWeb is made for home use and is controlled remotely via WiFi and comes equipped with cameras and motion sensors to avoid obstacles.
It can be used for surveillance and it can even send the video [...]
October 14th 2008
The Apple notebook event is now behind us and we can share the new product line with you as presented. We had a thunderstorm roll through the area which knocked the power out for the entire event but due to the technology of batteries and EVDO I was able to follow four live blogs for [...]
October 13th 2008
With Steve Jobs poised to offer us new MacBooks this week the buzz around that event caused us to give some thought to how the notebook space has evolved this year. So far we are impressed with the direction the notebook segment has taken in 2008 and what we are seeing.
In this article we’ll take [...]
October 12th 2008
Details concerning the release of a brand new, premium netbook were leaked earlier this week, much to Asus’ ire. The netbook is the new EeePc S101, and it comes with some features that are sure to please.
The specs include:
• Intel Atom chipset
• 1GB RAM
• Up to 64GB SSD with free 20GB online storage
• 802.11a/b/g/n [...]
October 11th 2008
Portégé R600 (note the preponderance of accent aigus, indicating its French Canadian market) is Toshiba’s latest laptop, which Crunchgear colorfully describes as “boneriffic.”
It’s not a powerhouse: a 1.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo ULV processor, a 160GB hard drive and 1GB of RAM, but it weighs less than two and a half pounds and, most impressively, [...]
October 10th 2008
Portégé R600 (note the preponderance of accent aigus, indicating its French Canadian market) is Toshiba’s latest laptop, which Crunchgear colorfully describes as “boneriffic.”
It’s not a powerhouse: a 1.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo ULV processor, a 160GB hard drive and 1GB of RAM, but it weighs less than two and a half pounds and, most impressively, [...]
October 3rd 2008
Turning the Iphone into a Wireless Router from John Chow on Vimeo.
We don’t often cover apps for jailbroken iPhones, but the topic of using a 3G phone as a WiFi hotspot to share the connection is one we’ve shared before. Apps like WMWiFiRouter and JoikuSpot cover this function on Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 [...]
October 2nd 2008
The fine gents over at Kotaku have listed all of the DS Lite and newly announced DSi specs in a one-on-one showdown. We see all of the expected small upgrades—the screens are a tiny bit bigger,…
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Tags: Battery Life, Ds 1, Dsi, Gents, Nintendo Ds, Screens, Tiny Bit
October 1st 2008
Is that really correct? HP hasn’t had a 13.3-inch notebook in the United States? Come to think of it, everything does seem to be in the 14-, 15-inch and up category. Other than the 8.9-inch HP Mini-note of course and we’re expecting to see a 10-inch version of that in the near future. I guess [...]
September 30th 2008
Is it too early to start that letter to Santa or did you already start? You might want to add a line item for the UMPC in your life because December will bring Toshiba’s newest 1.8-inch hard drive to market (PDF). Yes it’s physically small, hence the micro-SATA connector, but it’s large in capacity; topping [...]
September 29th 2008
It’s rare to see a new slate Tablet PC hitting the airwaves these days, so this news should be shouted from the rooftops: there’s a new Stylistic in the works. The ST6012 is a modernized version that I expect will replace the 501x line, which has been around for two years or so. The 3.5-pounder [...]
September 26th 2008
AsusTek has released yet another Asus Eee netbook, but this one has a cellular radio modem inside, not unlike the thousands of other laptops sold every day. But because their modem uses HSUPA, a slightly faster flavor of 3G than typical, the company has coined a wholly imaginary term on which to hang their marketing [...]
September 25th 2008
AsusTek has released yet another Asus Eee netbook, but this one has a cellular radio modem inside, not unlike the thousands of other laptops sold every day. But because their modem uses HSUPA, a slightly faster flavor of 3G than typical, the company has coined a wholly imaginary term on which to hang their marketing [...]
September 22nd 2008
The concept of Mobile Internet Devices, MIDs, is simple on the surface. They have been touted as devices with a primary focus on the Internet. They are to give the MID owner a simple and cheap method to get web work done, working with email and browsing the Internet. This does not require a sophisticated [...]
September 22nd 2008
Intel has started production on a dual-core Atom CPU, the 330, running at the same speed as the now common 1.6 GHz chip we see in today’s netbooks. This little guy is geared towards nettops, not netbooks, so expect to see it inside lower priced, smaller boxes for your desk. GottaBeMobile suspects that some [...]
September 21st 2008
iRex is currently running a teaser on its interwebsite for a new product that’s on 22 September (tomorrow) with the promise “seeing is believing”.
According to Forbes, the company is to launch an “evolved” e-book reader dubbed the iRex Reader 1000.
Aimed at business users it will have a 10.2-inch E-Ink display with a touchscreen plus stylus [...]
September 18th 2008
I see that UMPC Portal has an Medion Akoya Mini writeup after ten-weeks of using the netbook. Aside from a few small differences, that’s essentially the same device as the MSI Wind I brought with me to San Francisco. This little workhorse is holding up really well in terms of usability, battery life, and portability. [...]
September 17th 2008
We’ve been hearing about the Asus N10 for a few weeks now, and I finally got some hands-on time with the device. Some people have been calling this a high-end netbook, but Asus is placing it in their notebook category–so don’t call it a netbook! It is not part of the Eee PC family despite [...]