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SlashGear Week in Review – Week 47 2009

By Shane McGlaun on Saturday, Nov 21st 2009 No Comments

Week in review time again, here we go! The Lenovo IdeaPad Pineview netbook hit the FCC Monday. The FCC is one of the most prolific leaker of gadgets and gear around and we love them for it. The CrunchPad is now said to be steamrolling toward a launch and may have a sponsorship deal in place. Word was a few weeks back that the tablet was dead.

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CrunchPad “steamrolling” toward launch, may include “sponsorship” says Arrington

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 16th 2009 No Comments

Following speculation earlier this month that the CrunchPad web-surfing tablet had been held up – or potentially canned – after mounting production costs, project head Mike Arrington has reconfirmed that the slate is on course for release. Speaking as part of the Gillmor Gang videocast (which you can see after the cut), Arrington said that “CrunchPad is steamrolling” and that “costs keep coming down”; however, he also said that the “something between three and four hundred dollars” price tag would be supported by “soft revenue” from “sponsorships”.

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CrunchPad hamstrung by unexpectedly high production costs?

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Nov 5th 2009 No Comments

Last we heard, the CrunchPad budget tablet was set to leap to the market this month with a roughly $399 price tag. Now the rumor circulating California is that unexpected manufacturing expenses have delayed – perhaps even killed – the project; the Silicon Alley Insider claims that project founder Michael Arrington has been surprised by higher-than-expected quotes from suppliers.

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Touch Book feedback continues: beta hiccups or unfair critique?

By Chris Davies on Friday, Aug 21st 2009 3 Comments

Yesterday’s news that the Touch Book was reaching pre-order customers’ hands kicked off an interesting conversation with Always Innovating, who felt that our post was unduly negative about what they themselves have admitted is a “beta” product. Our argument was that it’s not just the work-in-progress software that’s raising eyebrows, but some of the design decisions – the unbalanced top section that’s not countered by the keyboard base, variable build quality – as early owner SteveNYC is reporting over at UMPC Portal.

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ARBOR Tech M1255 Atom-based 12.1-inch touchscreen slate

By Chris Davies on Friday, Aug 7th 2009 No Comments

Of the Atom-based touchscreen tablets, the ASUS Eee PC T91 is probably the best known. If you want a slate-format device, though, your choices are more limited; the upcoming CrunchPad is supposedly based on Intel’s Atom N270, but until that drops in November you’ll have to head over to ARBOR Tech. Their new M1255 packs the Atom N270 together with a 12.1-inch resistive touchscreen, 1GB of RAM, 60GB hard-drive and WiFi a/b/g.

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Dell and Intel subscription-based tablet coming 2010 to conquer Kindle?

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Aug 4th 2009 No Comments

dell intel mid tablet rumor Dell are tipped to be working with Intel on a 5-inch touchscreen tablet, which will be provided free of charge to users who sign up to one or more digital content subscriptions. The unnamed device, expected to hit the market in around six months time, will be positioned as a direct competitor to Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader, and offer would-be users turned off by that device’s high initial purchase price an alternative way of accessing regular digital content.

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SlashGear Week in Review – Week 31 2009

By Shane McGlaun on Saturday, Aug 1st 2009 No Comments

Another week has come and gone and we are a week closer that that wondrous day parents look forward to all summer — back to school! Lots of goings on this week and much of it was centered on mobile phones. Spotify announced that it would have an official app available on the iPhone that works for subscribers on Premium packages. Monday, a bit more light was shed on the much anticipated Android donut update, alas it’s said to not be the OS 2.0 update we hoped for and won’t have multitouch.

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CrunchPad to arrive November, priced around $399

By Chris Davies on Friday, Jul 31st 2009 No Comments

Details of the CrunchPad tablet’s shipping timetable have emerged, courtesy of developers Fusion Garage. According to Singaporean newspaper The Straits Times, the Techcrunch-led project intends to have the CrunchPad on the market by November, in time for the Christmas holidays, with the 12-inch touchscreen device having a 1.6GHz Intel Atom, 1GB of RAM, integrated WiFi and 3G and pricing expected to be in the range of $399.

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SlashGear Week in Review – Week 28 2009

By Shane McGlaun on Saturday, Jul 11th 2009 6 Comments

This has been a busy week here at SlashGear and lots of new items have appeared this week to stoke our geek lust. If you were on vacation or just didn’t get around to reading much this week here is our week in review. We heard rumors this week that Apple had purchased a huge order of cameras for its new iPod models. The rumor was supported by shots of new cases for the 5G iPod nano that surfaced with a cut out for a camera lens. Intel is also rumored to have penalized Lenovo and Samsung over cramming the popular Intel Atom processor inside a netbook with screens over the size limit that the parts are supposed to be used in. I guess Intel is still afraid of net books cannibalizing notebook sales.

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Crunchpad “prototype” up for sale? We say fake

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jul 9th 2009 No Comments

We’re not entirely sure what’s going on here, but it looks as though a Chinese firm is attempting to sell what are claimed to be prototypes of the Crunchpad internet tablet. Reminiscent of the “Prototype B” design, rather than the newer renders TechCrunch have been displaying, the confusing product page and Windows OS leads us to suspect that this is more about borrowing Crunchpad hype than it is selling off prototype designs.

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