The folks behind the Raspberry Pi $25 computer say that they could start taking orders by the end of February. This isn’t the first release date we’ve seen — the computers were supposed to be ready to go in December, but that didn’t happen. But not it looks like the first batch of 10,000 should finish production by February 20th….

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Windows tablet PC maker Netbook Navigator has launched a new model with a 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N570 dual core processor and a starting price of $499.99 — if you don’t mind picking up a model with no operating system. The base price includes a Netbook Navigator NAV10T tablet with a 10.1 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel capacitive pixel multitouch…

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Once upon a time, smartphones were just the expensive cousins of cheap cellphones that could make calls, maybe play a few ringtones, and if you were lucky surf a few web pages. Today smartphones are tiny computers that you can fit in your pocket… which might help explain why more more smartphones were shipped last year than traditional PCs –…

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Android tablets with 7 inch displays seem to be a dime-a-dozen these days… or at least available for around $199. But there are a few things that Toshiba’s $380 Thrive 7 tablet offers that you won’t find from low-cost tablets from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Lenovo, or Coby. The Toshiba Thrive 7, for instance, has a high resolution 1280 x…

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Chinese tablet maker Zenithink is making Google Android 4.0 available for most of the company’s recent 7 and 10 inch tablets. That includes the Zenithink C71 which gained a bit of attention recently when developer Aaron Seigo announced that it would be the basis of the new Spark tablet with KDE Plasma Active Linux software. While the Spark will come…

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A team of independent developers have ported a beta version of CyanogenMod 7 to run on the NOOK Tablet. CM7 is a custom version of Google Android based on the open source version of Android 2.3 Gingerbread. At the moment there are some serious bugs with CyanogenMod 7 for the NOOK Tablet, so the developers have removed the download links…

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The Samsung Galaxy Note is a mobile Android device with a 5.3 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel capacitive touchscreen display, a digital pen for writing or drawing, and a 1.4 GHz dual core processor. It’s either the largest phone you’ve ever seen or one of the smallest tablets, depending on how you look at it — and the Galaxy Note…

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Fujitsu is launching a new 7 inch tablet in Japan. Its called the Stylistic M350/CA2, and as the awkward name would suggest, this tablet is aimed at enterprise customers rather than the general public. The table has a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display and a 6 hour battery and weighs and weighs about 0.9 pounds. It has 802.11b/g/n…

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Months before Amazon and Barnes & Noble made a splash with their inexpensive 7 inch Android tablets, HTC introduced the Flyer — a kind of pricey 7 inch tablet with a digital pen that lets you write or draw on the screen. The Flyer may not have the same kind of name recognition as the Kindle Fire or NOOK Tablet,…

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Nike recently introduced a wearable device called the Nike+ FuelBand which can track your fitness data throughout the day. It’s basically a tiny computer in a wristband with a handful of sensors and a very limited set of functions. One question that Nike didn’t really address when introducing the FuelBand last month was how it managed to cram the electronics…

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MSI is launching its first netbook to feature an Intel Atom Cedar Trail processor. We first spotted the MSI Wind U180 in January, but this week the company officially announced the 10 inch mini-laptop. The Wind U180 doesn’t look very different than MSI’s last half dozen or so netbooks. The company was actually one of the first to introduce a…

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The Huawei MediaPad is a 7 inch Android tablet with a 1280 x 800 pixel display and a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual core processor. It’s already available in the US from T-Mobile, where the tablet is called the Springboard, but Huawei has announced that AT&T is now offering the tablet as well. The AT&T is aimed at enterprise customers…

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