Isn’t it strange that despite all the singing and dancing by companies like Nvidia, ARM, Qualcomm and others, the ‘smart’ books (or social netbooks as I often call them to avoid legal issues here in Germany) haven’t yet reached the market. ARM highlight delays with Flash and there are probably many other excuses but the biggest one is the iPad which is one of the smartest devices around. It has single-handedly frozen the market for other ‘smart devices’ and scared manufacturers into thinking about how good their devices really are. […]

Update: We just got a shipping notice. It should be here in 24-48 hours! I took a second to check an Amazon.co.uk order for the Toshiba AC100 this morning and alas, there’s no exact delivery date estimate. Checking over on the German Austrian comparison site Geizhals, it was a different story. German website Geizhals reports that one reseller is ready to send within 24hrs. No that’s a surprise! 2 other resellers are reporting delivery soon too. (See here for latest) This is the Non-3G version (Model number PDN01E-001016GR,suspected UK version […]

It makes a lot of sense for MSI to wait for the incoming ultra mobile PC platform from Intel rather than launch early with the relatively old Menlow platform and that’s exactly what they’ve gone public about today. MSI WindPad 100 Delayed, Waiting on Oak Trail. Oaktrail isn’t expected until 2011 but it represents quite an important redesign for Intels lowest power windows-compatable computing platform. In summary you can expect about 20% performance increase along with about 20% in-use battery life increase. Standby / screen-off battery life should increase by […]

Me and chippy mentioned on Twitter just the other day that more power was needed from netbook based systems and Gigabyte may have just come up with the goods in their T1000 series refresh. The T1005M comes packing Intels newest Atom processor, the N550. Its a 1.5GHz dual-core chip with 512KB of L2 cache, DDR3 support and hyperthreading to get you multitaskers moving along nicely. Other specifications from this convertible netbook include, 2GB DDR3 RAM, 320GB hard drive, WiFi 80211b/g/n, Bluetooth, 2x USB 2.0, Windows 7 Home Premium and a […]

An official Samsung video for the Samsung Galaxy Tab has surfaced and wow, I didn’t think things could get so exciting for the 7″ space! The Samsung Galaxy Tab has shot to #1 on Carypad so it’s looking like this could be the highlight of IFA for most people. We’ll be on the ground at IFA but not in time for the press release. We expect to get hands on in the evening of the 2nd Sept at the Showstoppers event. We’re excited to see 2.2, and ‘Full Web Browsing.’ […]

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In this show recorded on the 20th August 2010 Chippy, JKK and guest, Joanna Stern (Engadget) attempt to round-up 6 weeks of mobile computing news and talk about the netbooks and tablet possibilities for Q4 2010

In this show recorded on the 20th August 2010 Chippy, JKK and guest, Joanna Stern (Engadget) attempt to round-up 6 weeks of mobile computing news and talk about the netbooks and tablet possibilities for Q4 2010