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Archos 10 Netbook now available – Finally!

The Archos 10 is now finally available for order for $399. There is nothing special about the netbook in terms of specifications. Infact, it carries the specs which were there in the netbook models around an year ago just when the Atom-powered netbooks had just landed.

Archos 10 Netbook now available

At CES 2009, they did a quite unveiling of Archos 10. Perhaps, they themselves know that there is nothing ground-breaking about this netbook.

Specifications:

10.2-inch screen
Intel Atom 1.6 Ghz
1GB RAM
160GB HDD
Windows XP
Wi-Fi
Webcam
3 USB ports
3-cell battery

Visit Archos official web page.

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No more 8.9-inch ASUS Eee PCs in 2009

Asus is going to completely phase out 8.9-inch Eee PC netbooks this year. Asus believes that the 10-inch netbooks have much higher demand than the 8.9-inch netbooks.

No doubt, the sales of the 10-inch netbooks have been much higher than expected, but it is odd to completely rule out the 8.9-inch netbooks out of the equation. I am sure that there are a lot of people around who yearn for a smaller device and they do not have a need for a full laptop-size keyboard. They just want a device that is easy to carry around.

[via Digitimes]

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Acer Aspire D150 screen better than ASUS EEE S101? [Netbook]

We all know that there are no stock of Acer Aspire One available in the market. The reason behind this that  ACER wants to make sure that all the top components are ready in this new model. In an interview with ACER’s chairman, he claims that that Acer Aspire D150’s screen is better than Asus S101’s. He says D150’s screen is more saturated and is brighter than S101’s screen.

Although, it has been made available in some South-East countries in Asia, but it is still not available worldwide. Now, we are really excited to see if the D150’s screen is really any better than S101. Currently, we are reviewing S101 and the screen is fantastic. If the Acer claims that it better, then it will be surely interesting to see how better it is than its competition.

read Acer Aspire D150 review

[Taipeitimes] [via electronicpulp]

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Asus releases EEE S101H in Korea [Netbook]

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:

  • 10.2 inch display with 1024x600px
  • LED backlight
  • 0.3 pixel web camera
  • 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor
  • 1GB of RAM
  • Bluetooth v2.0
  • Weight 1kg.

[via blogntech]

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Qualcomm to target sub-$150 phones with its new chipset – MSM7227

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]