Toshiba have announced two new CULV notebooks in their Satellite ranges, which will go on sale as the Satellite T135 (13.3-inch) and Satellite T115 (11.6-inch) in the US and as the T130 and T110 in the UK. Both machines use Intel Pentium, Celeron single core or – in the case of the T13x – Celeron dual-core CPUs, with the smaller machines having up to 3GB of DDR3 RAM and 250GB hard-drives while the larger models get up to 4GB of RAM and up to 500GB hard-drives.
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Dell have finally outed their new flagship business notebook, the Dell Latitude Z 600, a 16-inch machine that’s packed full of wireless technologies. The Latitude Z 600 has a matte-finish 1,600 x 900 display, backlit keyboard, choice of Intel Core 2 Duo 1.4GHz SU9400 or 1.6GHz SU9600 processors, up to 4GB of RAM and up to dual SSD drives for storage, as well as an optional wireless charging stand (around $200 each for the stand and the notebooks’ wireless module) and optional UWB-based wireless dock with USB, DVI and other connections.
Bluetooth headsets tend to all be very similar with many of the same features and the only thing that sets many of them apart from each other is their price and the design. A new Bluetooth headset from iTech has launched called the i.VoicePRO 901 with some nice features at a good price.
The great thing about teaser campaigns is that they give plenty of time for leaks to take place, and that’s just what we’ve seen with Jabra’s new Bluetooth headset, the Jabra Stone. While the preview site says you won’t get any more than a slinky silhouette for another 26 days, Gizmodo’s tipsters would rather you saw the curiously-coiled headset ahead of time.
MSI have announced the release of their latest long-running netbook, the Wind U110 Eco. They’re a little behind – after all, Amazon started selling the netbook last week, and at $30 less than MSI’s $429.99 MRSP – but we’ll let it slide since the U110 Eco manages to squeeze up to 15 hours of runtime from its 9-cell battery.
Oh, how we laughed at Kopin’s Golden-i wearable computer when the company showed us renders earlier in the year; even though they promised it was heading to production, we were still dubious. The joke is on us, it seems, as Kopin have announced that the Golden-i Gen 2 will be entering field trials in December this year, with production kicking off in earnest next year. Units are expected to have a Bluetooth headset, 15-inch virtual PC display, head-gesture recognition and voice-control.
Bluetooth headsets might be associated with spreading legislation demanding hands-free use of cellphones, but the short-range wireless technology also has a more entertaining use: A2DP wireless stereo. SlashGear has been testing out Jabra’s HALO headset, a set of folding stereo headphones that promise not only hands-off voice calls but wire-free music too. Check out our full review after the cut.
SlashGear stopped by new Bluetooth start-up Nitrox today to find out what they company had planned with their first range of cellphone accessories, the X835 car-kit and X735 stereo hands-free kit. The X735, shown here, is already a RED DOT design winner, a compact Bluetooth clip with a monochrome OLED display, stereo A2DP support and a standard 3.5mm headphones jack.
Atheros have announced what they’re claiming to be the industry’s first half-mini PCI card with both WiFi a/b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR. The fetchingly-named Atheros AR9002WB-1NGB allows for simultaneous use of each wireless system, and is also software-upgradable to Bluetooth 3.0.
The drawback – and isn’t there always one, just to spoil our networking fun – is that the card doesn’t support dual-stream wireless-n, only single-stream. That means it’s limited to a theoretical 150Mbps maximum, not 300Mbps as we more usually associate with 802.11n.
SlashGear stopped by the Archos launch event last night for the company’s new Android-powered Internet Tablet, the Archos 5. The idea is straightforward: all of Archos’ usual media-centric abilities are there, including broad codec support and the ability to play local and network-based content, but rather than their home-grown Linux-based OS the French company has turned to Android and a custom UI shell.
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