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LBook T9 multitouch Windows 7 slate tipped for $350 in March

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Oct 7th 2009 No Comments

lbook t9 tablet pc LBook have been quietly selling ebook devices for a while now, but the company is hoping to make a splash into the multitouch tablet market next year with their T9. The LBook T9 is an Intel Atom-based 8.9-inch slate running Windows 7, and is tipped to arrive in March 2010 with a price tag in the $350 to $375 region. If they can pull that off, it’s an excellent price for a 12.7mm-thick sofa surfer.

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Samsung Behold II: AMOLED Android for T-Mobile USA

By Chris Davies on Monday, Oct 5th 2009 No Comments

T-Mobile are certainly positioning themselves as the go-to guys for Android in the US, and the Samsung Behold II doesn’t do anything to damage that reputation. Samsung’s latest has a 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen display, a 5-megapixel autofocus camera with flash, WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1, together with 3G connectivity.

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WiFi Alliance “Certified n” logo debuts with confusing taglines

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 1st 2009 No Comments

wifi alliance logo If you’re the sort of person who squeals with delight at seeing what logo might be plastered across your next laptop, then prepare to, well, squeal. The WiFi Alliance have unveiled their latest graphics now that 802.11n has been officially welcomed into the fold, and to make things extra-confusing there are now several different versions and taglines depending on just what the networking manufacturers have bothered to include.

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ODROID Android handheld up for preorder; full release December

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Sep 29th 2009 No Comments

We’ve been keeping an eye on the ODROID Android-based portable entertainment device over the past few months, and today our source at the company let us know that the developer version is going up for pre-order from today. Priced at the equivalent of around $320, and with deliveries expected to begin from November 5th, the ODROID developer edition has the same 833MHz Samsung S5PC100 processor as in the iPhone 3GS, 512MB of RAM and a 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen.

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Toshiba Satellite T130/T135 and T110/T115 CULV ultraportables debut

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Sep 29th 2009 No Comments

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 Latitude Z 600 arrives: wireless charging & dock

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Sep 29th 2009 No Comments

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.

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Novatel WWAN/WiFi card to bring embedded MiFi to Dell notebook?

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Sep 24th 2009 No Comments

Are Novatel planning to put a MiFi module inside Dell’s Latitude E4300? That’s one interpretation of the company’s recent FCC filing, which shows a dual-mode WiFi and WWAN module capable of concurrently using both wireless radios, and with antenna connections for the E-series notebook.

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Xbox 360 WiFi 802.11n adapter to be $100 says tipster

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Sep 23rd 2009 No Comments

Microsoft's Xbox 360 WiFi 802.11n adapter, tipped in another leaky FCC filing, will apparently be priced at around $100 when it lands later this year. The WiFi-n adapter will seemingly go on sale alongside, rather than outright replace, the existing version, which will see a discount to $79.99.

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Toshiba Qosmio X500 gets Blu-ray, 1080p, Core-i7

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Sep 23rd 2009 No Comments

Toshiba have announced the Qosmio X500, their 18.4-inch Full HD desktop-replacement notebook packing an Intel Core-i7 2.8GHz processor and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 250MNV 1GB graphics. Set to arrive by the end of October, the Qosmio X500 squeezes in a Blu-ray burner, up to 8GB of DDR3 memory, twin 500GB 5,400rpm hard-drives and WiFi b/g/n.

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