Lenovo’s upcoming IdeaPad S10 and S9 netbooks have passed through the FCC. User manual, test report and external and internal photos are all on offer. In fact documentation for both is incorporated into the same manual, as the only real difference appears to be the slight change in screen size: 10-inches for the S10, 8.9-inches for the S9.
Fujitsu’s U2010, the convertible UMPC based on Intel’s Atom CPU, has made it to the FCC with a few testing photos and a new name. As could have been predicted the UMPC will launch in the US as the U820, where it will have a 5.6-inch, 1,280 x 800 resolution touchscreen and six-row QWERTY keyboard. Given that the FCC label claims the U820 “contains UMTS” it looks as though the devices 3G WWAN modem has made it over too.
Acer’s entrant to the netbook market, the Aspire One, has hit the FCC and been promptly dismantled. Often these photo-sets are primarily of interest to those who simply enjoy watching gadgets being broken open, but this time round there are a few interesting details about potential future storage updates and a revealing shot of the extended battery.
ASUS’ R50A UMPC has been delivered to the FCC and promptly stripped of all its dignity in the usual batch of open-casing photographs. The R50A is based on Intel’s Z520 Silverthorne 1.33GHz CPU and was first announced in November last year; as well as a 5.6-inch 1024 x 600 touchscreen and choice of 8, 16 or 32GB SSD, there’s also 3G HSDPA, GPS and a optional DVB-T TV tuner card.
Creative’s latest PMP has been spotted by multiple sources, including a detail-scant FCC test report [pdf link] and a few leaked photos. The upcoming media player, called the ZEN X-Fi, is said to include WiFi, instant messaging, a built-in FM radio and speaker, and Creative’s sound-fettling X-Fi technology. Storage is either 8, 16 or 32GB, plus there’s an SD card slot to augment it.
Good news and bad in MSI Wind world. After the recent delay, with MSI blaming battery shortages and claiming the budget ultraportable would ship today, the notebook has made it to the FCC for the usual round of photos and prodding. Unfortunately the company has missed another shipping date; pre-orders were meant to hit customers today, the 27th, but instead there’s an apologetic email waiting in their inbox.
Someone at ASUS has obviously decided that there’s a market for Wiimote-like peripherals, since a filing for the Eee Stick wireless gesture-based controllers has just shown up at the FCC. According to the report, two Sticks will be supplied – one with a D-pad and the other with an analogue controller – together with a USB dongle using an unnamed 2.4GHz wireless connection.
This dumpy, dusty slab is in fact MSI’s upcoming standalone GPS unit, the MS-5654. Appearing courtesy of the FCC, the device is based around a 4.3-inch touchscreen with minimal hardware controls, and will feature either 1GB or 2GB of internal storage and basic media playback functionality. Under the hood, a 372MHz Centrality CPU keeps things chugging along, while Bluetooth allows the MS-5654 to work as a handsfree kit.
Judging from these tags from the FCC Sony is going to be pushing out a new 80GB model. It will feature a slightly repositioned Bluetooth module, a reverse F antenna for the same, and the 80GB HDD. The model number will remove the “A” from the original 60GB’s model number of CECHA01 and will replace it with an E making it CECHE01.
Google has reportedly written a letter to the FCC asking for permission to use the space between channels 2 and 51 on TV sets, which aren’t used by cable services, to offer up wireless broadband services. Such a move would offer up more coverage and maybe even faster and/or more reliable transfer speeds.
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