Nokia have announced their own netbook, the Nokia Booklet 3G, promising up to 12 hours battery life together with integrated WiFi, 3G HSPA and GPS. The 1.25kg netbook has an aluminum chassis and measures around 2cm thick; it uses an unspecified Intel Atom processor, has an HDMI output for HD video playback and a 10.1-inch glass HD-ready display.
Video demo after the cut
Did you happen to make it into a select few Best Buy stores over the weekend? If so, did you get a chance to stare at/touch/play with a Zune HD? We certainly hope so. But! If you didn’t get that great of an opportunity, then it looks like a video might just have to cut it for now. And why is this video so amazing, other than giving you another look at the sexy piece of gadgetry? It shows off the Marketplace on the device, and then right there, smack-dab in the middle: Apps.
Are you one of those people who love to try out new things before you buy it? Do you also think that 30 days to try that said product just isn’t long enough? Well, if you’re thinking about upgrading to Windows 7 in October, but you feel like you should try it out before you officially lay down your money, you don’t have anything to worry about. Like in Windows Vista, there’s a simple, one-line command that you can utilize, to activate an additional 30 days to your initial 30-day trial of the Operating System (OS). Even better, you can do this up to three times.
We’ve come so far these days in the world of personal technology but in some ways, we’re still missing the mark. Sure it’s the middle of summer but here are five things I’d like to see on the market this (or any) holiday season:
Straddling the divide between ultraportable and mainstream notebook, Lenovo’s ThinkPad T400s squeezes a business-friendly 14.1-inch LED-backlit display, Intel Core 2 Duo processor and integrated WWAN into a chassis just 0.83-inches thick. SlashGear had the opportunity for a pre-release hands-on; check out our first impressions after the cut, together with some preliminary T400s benchmarks.
Microsoft and NVIDIA are working together to optimize Windows CE for Tegra-based Smartbooks, with NVIDIA exec Mike Rayfield describing Android as having a “rough user interface”. Windows CE, meanwhile, has a “low memory footprint and a good collection of apps” and “is a rock-solid operating system that has been shipped billions of times” claimed the general manager for NVIDIA’s mobile business unit.
After the cut: 1080p Tegra Smartbooks and more on the Tegra Zune HD rumors
We called dmedia a “damp squib” when they failed to show up with their promised WiMAX MID at CES; they countered by tipping a Computex launch, and sure enough the 4.3-inch touchscreen device appeared. The M0 has a Fujitsu WiMAX module together with a Samsung 533-800MHz CPU and 800 x 480 capacitive touchscreen, plus a 5-megapixel camera.
Video hands-on after the cut
Jointech have announced their new JE100 ebook reader, a 7-inch device that uses an LCD touchscreen rather than an e-ink display. Based on Windows CE 5.0, the Jointech JE100 will likely not only boast Mobipocket Reader, MSReader and eReader support, but play back video and audio files together with viewing and editing Microsoft Office documents.
When Acer global vice-president Jim Wong said the company would continue to supply Windows netbooks alongside their new Android netbooks, we didn’t expect that to mean dual-booting. However, much to Linux-lovers dismay (and in fact anybody who wanted to avoid the so-called “Windows tax” of roughly $25 for an XP license), company president JT Wang has now confirmed that at least the first wave of Android netbooks will come with both open-source and Microsoft OS.
Microsoft have announced that Windows 7 will see its official release on October 22nd 2009. The OS – which is currently in public beta – will be officially available in seven different versions, from the Windows 7 Starter, intended for netbooks and the like, all the way through to Windows 7 Ultimate, with Enterprise, Home and Pro versions along the way.
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