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Dell Mini 3i Android phone imminent for China; Brazil by end of 2009 [Updated]

By Chris Davies on Friday, Nov 13th 2009 No Comments

Dell has come clean with its Android smartphone plans, revealing it will be launching the Dell Mini 3i in China “in the coming days” while a Brazilian release will take place before the end of 2009. According to Dell Latin America’s Hans Erickson, China and Brazil have been prioritized above all other regions; he also revealed that the Chinese version of the Mini 3i – set to launch on China Mobile – will lack 3G, while the Mini 3i headed to Brazilian carrier Claro will get the high-speed connectivity.

Update: Dell’s official blog has confirmed the news, together with dropping strong hints that the company will be leveraging existing carrier relationships for embedded mobile broadband netbooks for future Mini 3i releases. Vodafone in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and AT&T and Verizon in North America, are both name-checked. More photos of the Dell Mini 3i after the cut.

Update 2: And now the official press release is out; still no hard specifications.

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ICD Vega 15-inch Android 2.0 tablet arrives 2010

By Chris Davies on Friday, Nov 13th 2009 4 Comments

Android’s progressive spread to non-smartphone devices continues, with the latest manufacturer to jump on the open-source Google bandwagon to be Innovative Converged Devices (ICD). The ICD Vega will initially have a 15.6-inch 1366 x 768 resistive touchscreen, paired with NVIDIA’s Tegra chipset, Android 2.0, integrated WiFi b/g/, Bluetooth 2.1 and 3G WWAN data, with the company expecting to ship the tablet in the first half of 2010 across hroughout North America, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.

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Archos 9 PC Tablet suffers FCC teardown

By Chris Davies on Friday, Nov 13th 2009 No Comments

You can usually rely on the FCC to provide not only pre-announcement shots of upcoming gadgets, but internal images that give modders a good idea of how the final device might be tweaked into something far more useful. The Archos 9 PC Tablet has already been well fondled in real life – we grabbed one back in September – but thanks to the FCC we now have some teardown shots to counter the glossy exterior images.

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Chumby One gets unboxed, first-play

By Chris Davies on Friday, Nov 13th 2009 No Comments

The original Chumby was a curious, beanbag-esque blob of WiFi connectedness and difficult-to-explain purpose; the new Chumby One, meanwhile, strips away the squishy exterior and drops the price. Currently up for preorder at $99.95, one of the first Chumby One units has dropped onto the desk of jkOnTheRun’s Kevin C. Tofel.

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ASUS Eee PC T91MT multitouch netbook gets reviewed

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Nov 12th 2009 8 Comments

asus eee pc t91mt reviewed ASUS’ Eee PC T91MT multitouch-capable convertible touchscreen netbook may only just be available in the US, but that hasn’t stopped MyT91’s Kubel from scripting up a full review of the finger-friendly device. According to his report, the T91MT not only has a great keyboard but a reasonably effective touchscreen; it can only recognize two points of contact and has neither palm-rejection nor pressure-sensitivity, but it still manages to offer more touch-control than previous versions of the T91.

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Apple pen-input tablet patent app fuels rumors

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Nov 12th 2009 2 Comments

Apple’s ongoing tablet plans may be shrouded in mystery, but we keep getting snippets of potential from various patent applications from the company. Latest to be unearthed documents digital ink recognition using a pen-aware system, which tracks full handwritten phrases rather than merely individual strokes. Apple call it an “ink phrase” engine and it seems to be a sign that the company don’t expect onscreen keyboards and multitouch to serve all of our mobile input scenarios.

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Fujitsu F-04B modular cellphone with pico-projector gets played with

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Nov 12th 2009 No Comments

If you thought you’d seen it all in Nokia’s Vision of 2015 video, book a flight to Tokyo and stop by Fujitsu’s offices there. They haven’t seen to have got the memo that modular, wirelessly-connected mobile phones with integrated pico-projectors are meant to be the stuff of futurology, not fact, and as such have produced a working version of their F-04B cellphone. Akihabara have been for a play, and claim it’s a brilliant multifunctional device.

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Axiotron Modbooks get cheaper

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Nov 12th 2009 1 Comment

Axiotron's Modbook has long been the only semi-official way to get an Apple tablet, with the company taking a pre-unibody MacBook and swiftly twisting it into a Wacom-enabled touchscreen slate. While we loved our review unit, we weren't too keen on the high price; happily OWC - one of Axiotron's official distribution and conversion agents - have announced a slash of both new and conversion pricing.

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Boeye Android MID gets iPhone style, bargain price

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Nov 12th 2009 1 Comment

Android tablets aren’t exactly uncommon, so we generally reserve our extreme excitement until they actually arrive in stores rather than on display at trade shows touting for business. Still, when your tablet looks like an iPhone on steroids you’re bound to get some attention, and that’s just what’s happened to Chinese firm Boeye: their MID might run Android but its the striking Apple resemblance (and the estimated budget price tag) that has people excited.

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Samsung Bada handset purportedly leaks

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Nov 12th 2009 No Comments

samsung bada phone Samsung’s Bada OS, freshly announced – though far from released – for mobile devices is reasonably interesting on its own, but we always prefer to have an inkling of hardware to go along with our software speculation. Happily that itch has been allegedly scratched this morning, with a render of what’s purported to be the first Samsung Bada device.

Willeke at GSMHelpDesk has been slipped an image of this touchscreen handset, though there are no accompanying specifications to tell us what sort of experience we can expect. That leaves us arguing the aesthetics, and while the device pictured is reasonably inoffensive, it doesn’t exactly distinguish itself from any other touchscreen-centric candybar. Perhaps there’s a slide-out QWERTY keyboard waiting to wow us, but right now hardware controls look to be minimal.

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