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Hands on the ASUS EEE T91 – GUI walkthrough
Sascha from Netbooknews.de was able to get his exclusive hands on the EEE T91. Here is the video:
It looks like even though the screen is not capacitive, it is highly responsive. Another great thing about the EEE T91 is that ASUS did not go for the Vista for it. XP Tablet is the way to go for this Atom powered tablet.
HTC DIAMOND 2 and HTC TOUCH PRO 2 launch video
LG makes X120 3G enabled netbook official
At MWC 2009, LG announced their new 3G enabled netbook. This new netbook from LG has the standard netbook specifications. It also has a Smart-on technology, which is nothing but a stripped-down linux OS which boots in mere five seconds. It will let the user to use MP3 player, photo viewer, and Internet suite without booting the Windows OS, which takes several seconds to boot.
160GB HDD- 3G HSPA connectivity
- Weighs just 1.2 kg
- 3 cell battery life offers 3.5 hours and 6 cell battery offers 7 hours
- Built-in 1.3 megapixel camera
- SRS WOW HD and TruSurround XT audio
- LED Backlight display
The X120 will be made available in March 2009
[via NetbookTech]
Lenovo to use Nvidia’s ION platform in their bigger netbooks
Remember the ION platform which the Nvidia revealed about a month back? The Lenovo is already planning to launch bigger netbooks which use the mighty GeForce 9400M GPU (GeForce 9400M GPU+Atom processor = ION). These netbooks will be equipped with 11.6-inch and 12.1-inch screens, which are becoming more and more normal these days.
That is not all, they are even planning to launch a 13-inch model too based on the ION platform. Although the ION platform will allow users to view HD movies and even let them play some of the modern games, but in the end, will they be netbooks anymore? With the bigger displays now pouring into the netbook scene, the border line of netbooks and notebooks has become even more blur than before. [via digitimes]
SONY brings instant-on technology into its VAIO P-series
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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