The Samsung NC10 is STILL one of the best netbooks out there. It is very famous for its 6 hours+ battery life and good performance. Folks at micodirect.co.uk at selling it for 293 pounds (including VAT), which is pretty decent price for a great netbook.
Harvsingh, reviewer at ApoTheTech did a HTC TOUCH HD review few months back (even before it was officially released in some countries). However, this time we are going to review it from a different perspective – AS A MOBILE INTERNET DEVICE. If you have been following the windows mobile scene from the past couple of years, you must have observed that the display size of the mobile phones has decreased in size over the years. Whether we all like it or not, but it was the iPhone that brought the big screen to attention to the mobile phone manufactures.
Specifications:
On the paper, the HTC TOUCH HD looks very impressive as a phone, but it the first device from HTC that can be seriously considered as a MID. You may argue that the HTC Advantage was the first MID. Well, I guess that was too big to be pocketable and I believe MIDs should be able to easily fit in pockets.
Alright, back to the topic: How is the Internet experience?
The Touch HD has a WVGA display and this is the same one that was used in the first generation of the ASUS EEE PCs (EEE 700 series). Imagine all that display squeezed into a 3.8-inch display. The display is very crisp and breathtaking to look at.
Just like the recent HTC devices, HTC has bundled Opera Mobile 9.5 which offers great Internet experience. The Opera Mobile works fine for rendering even complex webpages. Although the pages take somewhat longer to load than the Safari Mobile (found on iPhone/iPod Touch), but once loaded, everything works fine the way it should. I’ve been told that the upcoming versions of Opera will be able to play youtube and other streaming videos within the webpage.
Note that in iPod Touch/iPhone, you cannot view the videos in the webpage.
The back button on the front takes you to the previous page. All the buttons provide the user with haptic feedback. Haptic feedback produces little vibration to make the user feel that a button press was registered by the device.
Display Sensitivity
The display is very sensitive. It is equivalent to the sensitivity of the ASUS P565 (world’s fastest windows mobile phone). It may not be capacitive, but then you are not restricted to use only your fingers (not even finger nails). You can use the supplied stylus too, which is held by a magnet in its silo.
Music Quality
Since, it comes with 3.5mm headphone jack, you can plugin your high-quality earphones to listen to music. The music quality is great through the earphones.
There are dedicated volume buttons on the left side of the unit to turn the volume up and down.
Camera
It comes with a 5MP camera located at the back of the unit. It takes decent pictures although not as great as the ones taken by Nokia N95.
The camera software provides touch focus, which lets you focus on the desired area.
Here are couple of pictures taken by me at its full resolution:
The 3.8-inch display is huge and make the navigation very finger friendly. It is absolutely stunning to look at. It is 0.3-inch bigger than iPhone too!
Price: It costs $800-$900. I know it is a little too high for some of you but it is a great MID which also doubles as a great phone.
mobile shoppingt:
The benefits of the atom processor can be seen in most mobile phones.
Intel Classmate PC, which sold nearly 700,000 in the year 2008 is forcasted to be break 2 million mark this year. In China, Intel has partnered with the local network provider Haier to sell Classmate PCs there. It is also taking procurement orders from parts of Europe and Southeast Asia.
The netbook vendors have become a little worried due to this as they think that this move by Intel can impact their sales. In defending itself, Intel said that it no plans to compete in netbook market. Intel added that they will continue to work with OEM partners to sell Classmate PCs for the youth education
[via digitimes]
Woot.com is selling EEE 900 for just $149 (+$5 for shipping). This is a great price for such a great device!
[woot.com]
ASUS EEE 1000H was one of the most successful netbooks ever rolled out by ASUS. The EEE 1000HE is the new netbook on the block which provides some noticeable enhancements over the EEE 1000H. Read this detailed review to find out more about EEE 1000HE!
Continue reading “ASUS EEE 1000HE review – Best netbook of 2009”
Intel introduced N280 this year which is set to replace the N270 Intel Atom processor. The N280 is marginally faster (1.66GHz) than the N270 (1.6GHz).
N270 processor benchmark (crystal mark)
Here are the results of crystal mark on N280 processor:
Conclusion: N280’s ALU and FPU performance is better than N270 processor.
The Stone Neo 101 will join the netbook family with the usual netbook-ish specifications even though being priced at a high £275 (about $400). It will be available in UK, from 1st May, with an unusual three-year warranty. Its features include:
Stonegroup [via Techdigest]
HP recently released the 1366 x 768 resolution version of HP Mini 2140. The high resolution as expected, gives better options for web browsing, photo editing, etc.
Personally, this resolution is much better than 1024 x 568 pixels that come with the non-HD version of HP 2140.
[via HPminiforums] via eeepc
Over-Priced: We fully understand the fact that it is SONY. But, paying so much for a device that performs so poorly does not make any sense
Super high resolution: What is the point of giving the user super high resolution in an 8-inch screen? Is SONY under some contract of putting so outrageous resolutions in small screens? Looks like they learned nothing from their UX series which squeezed 1024×600 pixels in an 4.3-inch display
HDD not easily upgradable: Although we do not upgrade the HDD everyday, but it should be easily swappable in case something goes wrong with the HDD or if the user wishes to use SSD
Continue reading “Top 10 reasons you should NOT get a SONY VAIO P”
The Vostro A90 has hit the shores of US with a price tag of $349, which is about nearly 1/3rd of what it costs in Japan. It comes with the usual netbook-ish specifications:
Interestingly, unlike Dell Mini 9, Dell is not offerening a linux version of it. It should be noted that $349 price tag is for the 8GB SSD model and the 16GB SSD version will cost you $424.
[Dell Vostro A90] [via engadget]
