I am back in full after a weekend of writing lab reports and studying for tests (yes school has started yet again…) and its time to summarize some of the news items we missed over the last few days.
First of all, according to his friendfeed Chippy is in Amsterdam where he will hopefully bring us a hands-on report about the new Opera-enabled Archos Media tablets. I’m sure he will have something up soon.
Second we have new netbooks. They are popping up all over the place – we have the NB105 from Toshiba Mexico and then the BenQ Joybook Lite. Feature wise the Toshiba has an 8.9 inch screen, the Benq has a 10 inch. Both have a 1.6Ghz Atom processor. Nothing new really. More design choices for the consumer.
Specifications here for the NB105 and here for the Joybook.
Third we have some news on netbooks we already know about. People are starting to receive their Mini 9 from Dell, and there is even an unboxing video. Looks good. We also have some info on the temperatures of the Lenovo Ideapad S10 which apparently gets quite hot compared to other devices.
Mini 9 unboxing here, Lenovo S10 heat “map” here.
Jenn over at Pocketables has received a Kohjinsha SC3 extended battery and the results are not good. The battery has twice the capacity but only allows you to run the device for about 3.5 hours. Not very mobile. Read more here.
To end this roundup we have the Menq International’s EasyPC E760 which runs CE and has a 7inch 480×272! Spectacular! And its only $89. No thanks ;)
Looking forward to the upcoming week!
The EasyPC is quite intriguing. Sure it has nothing to do with UMPC’s and Netbooks. But compared to PDA’s, it may not be that bad, for a very good price and a full keyboard. Even the screen, with a 480×272 resolution, is still better than the QVGA (320×240) that a lot of PDA/smartphone devices are used to display. And if the battery can keep the thing up for a whole week or more… (think PDA, again)
I wonder what are the detailled specifications of this device…
Greetings:
In the next 2-3 months we may see prices fall across the board on Netbooks, UMPC, and MIDS.
If the Economy continues on a downward slop at one point or another it will affect if people would buy a netbook or not.
This best example of prices falling was when the Iphone was announced at $199.00US.
If the economy would be in a better state without the housing credit problem, the Iphone would have been priced higher.
I believe we will have a Christmas season with the lowest prices on Computer technology.
Keep an eye out for it.
Regards Robert
Interesting comments on Engadget. They started out by putting the cheap WinCE device down, but then people start saying $89 is cheap.
For a lot of people this is close to what they need. Consumers don’t care much what the operating system is, as long as they can do what they want to easily enough.
I like instant on, I like WinMo 6.1. I would like a decent screen (which for me this isn’t) and I would like a battery that lasts. This device ticks most of the boxes and it is cheaper than anything else.
So many netbooks, wheres the 3g?
bit funny watching that dell unboxing and hear the person read of the windows cd labled: windows xp home service pack 3 (i think) for ulcpc.
i wonder how much the printing of those new cd’s cost microsoft, as the content itself is basically a standard windows xp home cd with service pack 3 slipstreamed on…