Instant on is a feature that almost all the manufactures are incorporating these days in their notebooks as-well-as netbooks. With it, the people can do basic stuff like do web-surfing; make Skype calls; chat on the IM client; listen to music etc. Corel’s Instant ON technology has now been adapted by the SONY which will now be included with the VAIO P-series netbook notebook.
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HP-Compaq have shaken hands to provide their customers the new Compaq Mini 700, which will allow the users to use the mobile Internet on-the-go for £30 a month. For that, you get 3GB monthly bandwidth and 24 month warranty.
[orange UK shop] [via computerweekly]
The S101H has been released in Korea. Do not confuse it with the S101, which was released by ASUS a couple of months back. That featured a small 16GB SSD (32GB for linux version). The new S101H features a much spacious 160GB HDD. It is available in same classic brown color. It comes with built-in 3.5G too.
Features:
[via blogntech]
ARM processor is widely used in variety of phones including the likes of Windows Mobile, iPhone and Nokia. At the Mobile World Congress, the ARM announced their new processor. This time, it was not for the mobiles, but for the netbooks.
According to the ARM, it’s instruction set is similar to one found in Palm Pre. However, what makes it different is its multi-core technology, which can tremendously increase performance. But, here is the main problem with this processor: it is not x86 compatible, which will not allow you to run your favorite Windows OS on it. Although, it still has huge changes of getting very popular in the netbook space as two very popular linux distributions: Ubuntu and Debian Linux, both can run on this ARM based CPU.
[via pcmag]
Qualcomm has announced its new chipset, MSM7227 which is targets cheap phones. Do not underestimate it with its price, it features a 600 MHz applications processor with a floating point unit, a 320 MHz application DSP, a 400 MHz modem processor, hardware-accelerated 3D graphics, integrated Bluetooth 2.1 and GPS, 8-megapixel camera and 30 fps WVGA video encode and decode and display support.
Phones having this chipset are expected to launched later this year. The best part about it is that tt is not restricted to be used on Windows Mobile, but also can be used on Android, Symbian S60, and BREW Mobile Platforms.
[via digitimes]
Lenovo is planning to launch Ideapad S20, which is going to be a 12-inch netbook. By breaking the Intel’s 10-inch for netbooks, Lenovo will be deprived of the special price of the Intel Atom N280 processor. However, it would not make much of a difference as the Lenovo will have to pay a whopping $10 more than what they normally pay for 10-inch or less netbooks.
Together with the latest Atom N280 processor, it will also comes with GN40 chipset and will be priced at around $586. Personally, I am still not able to figure out the need of the 12-inch netbooks. The netbooks are meant to be highly portable devices. Manufactures like Dell and Lenovo are giving a new name and dimension to the netbook market. So, what is next? 14 and 17 inch netbooks anyone?
[via digitimes]
The HTC S740 is nice Windows Mobile smartphone, which looks like a brother of the HTC DIAMOND. It uses Qualcomm processor clocked at 528Mhz, which makes it the strongest Windows Mobile standard device. Most of the Windows Mobile Standard(non-touch screen) devices come with TI OMAP 200Mhz processor. HTC has put a lot power in the S740 together and with breathtaking looks, HTC sure has a winner in their hands.
PDA.pl has done a hardware tour of it. Although the review is in polish, but you pretty much get the idea how the device looks and works.
No rumors, no leaked images, but we knew something would be unleashed at Mobile World Congress by HTC. HTC has released successors to the HTC DIAMOND and HTC TOUCH PRO: DIAMOND 2 and TOUCH PRO 2 respectively.
Let’s see what changes have been done when compared to the original Diamond:
The new Diamond 2 weighs at mere 117gm, which is just 7gm heavier than the original Diamond.
What is still missing?
[HTC Diamond 2 official webpage]
TWO Videos after the bump:
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The OQO Model 2+ has built-in hardware accelerated decoding (Poulsbo chipset using Intel GMA500 integrated graphics with the PowerVR core), which fully supports both 720p and 1080p HD content. Although, for full HD resolution, connect the OQO to an external 720p/1080p display using HDMI.
The OQO model 2+ support HDMI monitors up to 1920×1200 resolution. However, there is one hiccup. It does not send voice over it. Anyway, I hope to see more UMPC and Netbooks coming with HDMI ports so that people can connect their devices to the external displays that support hi-def and can enjoy HD content in all its glory.
[via oqotalk forum]
The Dell Mini 10 is soon going to be made available by Dell in its various online as-well-as retail stores. Here is something interesting about the advertisement, it mentions about the next-generation WiFi option. What can it be? All hints point towards the WiMax. Or it may be just Wireless-N
[via mydellmini]
