Dell mini 9 is available at Tesco for mere £194.77. Dell mini 9 is a quite capable netbook with 8GB SSD and 1GB RAM.
Here are it’s full specifications:
For £194, it is not a bad deal at all considering what you get.
[TESCO]
Here are few more photos of the recently unveiled Toshiba TG01 for you to drool over.
More pictures after the break Continue reading “More Toshiba TG01 photos [Windows Mobile]”
Bored with the look of your Diamond’s phone dialer? If yes, pauldgroot at xda-devs has stepped forward and has the skinned the Diamond’s dialer.
How to install:
Get it here
Please note that this skin is only for those who have the new 2.03 ROM by HTC or for those who have installed the slide to answer cab
[related xda-devs thread]
The ASUS has already made it’s one of it’s new offering, EEE 1000HG in Taiwan. What makes the ASUS EEE 1000HG different from the rest of the EEE 1000 series is it’s built in WiMax, HSDPA. The rest of the specifications of the EEE 1000HG are similar to the EEE 1000H.
1.6GHz Atom N270 processor
1GB RAM
160GB HDD
Wifi
Bluetooth
6-cell battery
It is priced at $564 (NT$18,988), which is pretty nice deal considering the goodies that it offers.
[via fudzilla]
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Read the ASUS EEE 1000H review.
Just like other Windows Mobile OEMs, who have used some sort of mobile shell as an endeavour to make the Windows Mobile GUI more finger-friendly, Toshiba has employed a GUI of it’s own in it’s offering TG01. Here is a video of it.
[via slashgear]
This is for those who thought the Toshiba is dead. True, their last few offering have not able to make a lot of splash in the mobile phone market, but the new Toshiba TG01 promises to break new grounds. With just 9.9mm thickness, a huge 4.1-inch display with a WVGA (800 x 480) resolution and the use of 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, it surely promises to give HTC and other handsets like iPhone a good competition.
Last time, the people were extrememly disappointed with the buggy-software of G900, which was the first WVGA Windows Mobile device. I hope the Toshiba would release a bug-free software for their new big baby, TG01.
On the software side, it promises flash websites as it claims to use Internet Explorer Mobile 6, which is not officially available for any handsets. Also, even the unofficial version of IE mobile 6 is unable to run any flash content nicely. You would barely get 3-5fps on a powerful device like HTC DIAMOND. But, considering the fact that the Toshiba TG01 sports a 1GHz processor, it may be a truly different story. We recently reviewed ASUS P565, which claimed to be world’s fastest PDA-phone. It surely turned out to be world’s fastest Windows Mobile phone. Why? This is due to the Windows Mobile OS. It would be interesting to see, how speedy the 1GHz Snapdragon CPU compared to the 800MHz Marvel PX930, which the ASUS P565 uses. [via engadget]
BYD Electronics, a huge company which manufactures manufactures and sells handset components to many cell phone companies including Nokia is now going to start producing netbooks for the OEMs. However, it may use the R&D from TCL to give them a hand in producing netbooks.
BYD is now following the suit of many other netbook manufactures who previously used to produce only handsets and now have jumped into production of white-box netbooks for OEMs. Another interesting fact is that the Chinese netbook makers are able to drastically cut down the price of producing the mold cost of netbook from nearly $230,000 to mere $44,000.
BYD making netbooks for the OEMs is a great news for the netbook market, which can futher reduce the price of netbooks without much effect on quality. Future is getting even brighther for the netbook OEMs and of course, us – the consumers
[BYD Electronic] [via digitimes]
Sick with the pathetic performance of A110 processor, while running Windows Vista? A week back, we posted about how to install Windows 7 on the HTC Shift. Sadly, the Windows 7 is still in it’s beta stage. And while it is not out, XP remains the OS of choice for Netbooks as it runs on low-spec hardware incredibly well.
Sadly, the original Resolution changer won’t work. You must use this version in Windows XP. Also, to access the Windows Mobile side, you will have to install ActiveSync. Tablet input panel is not working at the moment.
Here are the full instructions on how to get Windows XP on your HTC Shift:
1.- Download and save to a USB disk drive:
http://www.filefactory.com/file/fa3e…s_shift_XP_rar
and https://phatpipez.homeftp.org/HTCShi…chXPproSP2.exe
Be sure to extract the rar file before starting or have a unrar program installer available, you cannot extract rar files on a newly installed windows XP!
2.- Install XP. Use your own version in your own language!
Choose same disk and fast NTFS format. Use the administrator account for now.
Let it finish ignoring any message about the screen format, etc
3.- Eject CD-Drive
Insert USB pen drive
4.- Run HTC Shift XP Drivers/Chipset/infinst_autol.exe next, next, next… reboot when finished.
5.- run HTC Shift XP Drivers/VGA/win2k_xp14324.exe next, next, yes, next, next, reboot when finished.
6.- run TabletPC_PatchXPproSP2.exe, it will extract files to C:temp,
Go to C:temp and run step1.reg,
Run Step2.bat
Leave it alone until de hard disk stops and reboot
7.- Run HTC Shift XP DriversVistaECDrvV1[1].0.1.10setup.exe from the folder
8.- Run HTC Shift XP DriversTouchScreen(1[1].1.0.2)ATSV1102(WHQLed).exe next,next, next and reboot when finished.
9.- run HTC Shift XP DriversSynaptics MicroPad(10[1].0.11.1)setup.exe , reboot when finished.
10.- run HTC Shift XP DriversAudioWDM_R195setup.exe , reboot when finished.
11.- run HTC Shift XP Driversfingerprintsetup.exe .
12.- run HTC Shift XP Driversomnipass 5.0setup.exe. Reboot when finished.
13.- run HTC Shift XP DriversUSB LANsetup.exe .
14.- run cygwinsetup.exe, and select install from folder. select ioperm from the devel subfolder.
Unselect icons on desktop and start menu and finish.
Run cygwin.bat from c:cygwin
type “ioperm –i” + enter and “exit” + enter
move hsect-2.1hsect2.exe and move it to c:cygwinbin
15.- move the bat files from archivos bat to the desktop.
16.- Run BT on.bat from your desktop and let windows install its own drivers
17.- run WF on.bat from your desktop and cancel the windows installation.
18.- copy HTC Shift XP DriversWLANsdbus.sys to c:windowssystem32drivers say yes to the replace dialog and reboot.
19.- Install the WLAN drivers , from the hardware manager, right button over marvell SDIO… update driver, and select the HTC Shift XP DriversWLAN folder.
ASUS today quitely unveiled their new netbook, EEE 1000HE, where “E” means extended. The new netbook features the new Intel Atom processor (N280) running at 1.66GHz, which is whopping 60Hz faster than it’s predecessor. It also features a HD-capable Intel GD40 chipset. But, here is the more interesting part: ASUS claims that it manages 9.5 hours of battery life! Smokes!
Specifications:
Intel Atom N280 processor @ 1.66GHz
160GB HDD
1GB RAM
10GB EEE storage (read more about it)
WiFi b/g/n
Bluetooth 2.0
The EEE 1000HE features the new improved chicklet style keyboard, which features bigger right shift key. To make the package more attractive, folks at ASUS have also thrown in a 10GB EEEstorage. It is quite funny that in the press release they’re calling the combi of HDD and EEE storage a hybrid storage. Hybrid storage in netbook world means usage of both HDD and SSD in the same machine. EEE storage (reviewed here) is nothing but a online storage scheme by ASUS
more commentary: Although the ASUS claims 9.5 hours of battery life, but under what conditions? Here is the extract from their press release:
Estimated maximum battery life under Windows XP is measured with BatteryMark 4.0.1 (in Eee PC Super Hybrid Engine Power-Saving mode, 40% LCD brightness, Wi-Fi off, BT off, and camera disabled).
In actual conditions, where the user would be using WiFi, one should be able to get 4.5-5 hours, which is still a great achievement nevertheless.
LB-F1500W netbook from the house of Mouse Computer, where LB stands for “Luv Book” has been spotted in Osaka. As mentioned before, it has a 10.2-inch screen and other standard netbook features like 160GB HDD and 1GB RAM, but it comes one non-standard netbook feature: a built-in optical drive. Price-wise too, it way more costlier at $729.
Features:
Shower your comments, if the netbooks with built-in DVD drives have a big market? I personally do not feel the need as they were meant to be light, cheap and easy to carry around. [Slashgear]
More pictures after the break:
