Red Fox call them colorful; we call them lurid. Either way, the company’s Wizbook N1020i netbooks have arrived, and aside from the paint-job it’s mostly business as usual for the 10.2-inch 1024 x 600 machines. Standout features are an ExpressCard 34 slot and, more unusual, Bluetooth 3.0 support.
Do you like your music loud and garnished with vaguely nonsensical statistics? Then step right up, as Radiopaq are offering both with their new iPod Sound Jacket. Intended for the fourth-gen iPod nano, the Sound Jacket is billed as an automatic graphic equalizer and – according to Radiopaq – improves sound quality “by up to 60-percent.”
Long-time readers may remember Sega Toys’ robotic cat that stole my heart, Yume Neko Smile; now the company is back with an upgraded version [pdf link] of the electronic-kitty. Yume Neko “Dream Cat” Venus is a life-sized Norwegian Forest Cat, with more possible movement than the original Smile version together with the ability to respond to your voice.
Viliv’s X70 UMPC goes on sale today through importer Dynamism, and as we’ve already reported there’s a clutch of goodies for the first 777 buyers. Priced from $599, the X70 has a choice of 1.2GHz or 1.3GHz Intel Atom processors and SSD storage from 16GB; we’ve already seen one very positive review; now jkkmobile has put up his own video review of the X70 Premium 3G, the HSPA-equipped version of the 7-inch touchscreen device.
Video review of Viliv X70 after the cut
Nokia rumors a-plenty today, as UK paper The Guardian suggest that the Finnish company are planning to release a touchscreen Android smartphone so as to counter falling Symbian shares. However, Nokia themselves have vehemently denied any such intentions, with a spokesperson quoted as saying “everyone knows that Symbian is our preferred platform for advanced mobile devices.”
The much-anticipated CrunchPad internet tablet from Michael Arrington is apparently ramping up for a late July or early August launch. According to The New York Times’ Bits Blog the touchscreen web tablet will be priced at “less than $300.”
According to Mobil.nu, you’re looking at the glossy face of Sony Ericsson’s first Android smartphone, an XPERIA-branded touchscreen handset codenamed “Rachel”. Known specifications for the upcoming device are sparse, but it’s believed to use Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon chipset, include HSPA connectivity, and have an 8-megapixel camera.
Intel have reportedly punished Samsung and Lenovo by canceling their preferential Atom chip pricing, after the two companies broke Intel’s netbook restrictions. According to industry sources, Samsung are planning an Atom N-series netbook which uses NVIDIA’s Ion graphics chipset and an 11.6-inch display – likely the Samsung N510 - for release later in this month; that goes against Intel’s limits on screen size, which the company (along with Microsoft) limit to 10.2-inches or below.
We’ve already seen PhotoFast’s stonkingly-fast G-Monster SSDs, which slap solid-state memory and a RAID controller onto a desktop PCIe card, and now the company has done the same thing but in a standard 2.5-inch drive casing. The PhotoFast G-Monster V5 RAID SSD looks like a regular drive, but boasts either 128GB or 256GB of capacity and up to 270MB/sec read/write speeds; NetbookNews had a chance to go hands-on with the superlative drive.
Video demo after the cut
Apple have reportedly ordered a “massive number” of camera modules, similar to those found in the iPhone, which will likely find their way into the iPod touch and nano. According to TechCrunch’s sources in Asia, the size of the order – each camera costs roughly $10 – suggests that not only will the iPod touch get photography abilities (as suggested by the iPod touch 3G case on Friday) but that in fact every model bar the iPod shuffle will include one.
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