A Chinese manufacturer has released a new 7 inch Android tablet with two things you don’t often see from tablets in the West: a removable battery and the Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system. The Hong Kong Sheng 708 tablet has a rather catchy name too. The device has a back panel that you can slide off the tablet to access the…

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The Asus Eee Pad Transformer gets its name from the optional keyboard dock which turns the 10 inch Android tablet into a laptop-like device. The dock has a keyboard, touchpad, and a separate battery. So not only can you use it to type your heart out, you can also use the dock to extend your tablet’s battery life by about…

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  While the PlayBook itself has received a mixed bag of praise and criticism, RIM has been lauded for making good on its promise to update the PlayBook OS early and often. It appears, however, that there has been an unwanted side effect to those updates: decreased battery life. PlayBook users have been reporting the problem since installing the most…

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The recently launched Lenovo ThinkPad X220 is a business-class laptop with a 12.5 inch display and a starting price of $899. But what really sets the laptop apart from the competition is Lenovo’s claim that you can get up to 24 hours of run time with the optimal battery configuration. The folks at Laptop Magazine got a chance to put…

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Battery life estimates are notoriously hard to predict, which is why we regularly see computer makers promising up to 14 hours and delivering only 7. So I’m going to suggest you take this news with a grain of salt, but Notion Ink’s Rohan Shravan says the upcoming Adam Tablet can run for 15 hours or longer on a charge. The…

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Update: It looks like these results may have been inaccurate, or at least misleading. I’ve run several other tests that seem to indicate that Windows 7 actually hurts battery life on at least two netbook models, including the Eee PC 1008HA. One nice feature in Windows 7 is that it gives users a bit more control over their power settings….

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There are two ways to squeeze extra battery life out of a computer. You can reduce power consumption, and you can use a ridiculously high capacity battery. It looks like come December, Acer Aspire Timeline users will have the option of taking both approaches. The Acer Timeline series includes a number of thin and light laptops with screens ranging in…

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… with the wireless turned off. To be honest, I’ve never done a battery test on a netbook with the WiFi turned off because this just isn’t the way most people use laptops most of the time. Still, I suppose if you were planning on using the LG X130 as an eBook reader with the screen dimmed and the wireless…

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I got a chance to check out the new Asus Eee PC 1000HE a few weeks ago at CES. But eyeballing a machine on display at a trade show booth isn’t the same thing as testing one in your office – which is exactly what the lucky folks at Laptop Magazine are doing right now. In a nutshell, this computer…

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As I mentioned this morning, Asus has added a few new netbooks to its Eee PC 1000H line, with a new “E” at the end. There’s an Eee PC 1000HE, and an Eee P C1000HAE. Both have the new chiclet-style Eee PC keyboard with the right shift key on the left side of the up arrow. There’s also a bit…

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The other day Laptop Magazine ran the first comprehensive review of the Samsung NC10 that I’ve seen to date. Overall the NC10 performs as you would expect a netbook with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, a roomy hard drive, and 1GB of RAM to. But the killer feature was the battery. While the netbook has a 6 cell 5200mAh battery,…

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You know that Samsung NC10 the folks at Laptop Magazine ordered from Korea and unboxed the other day? Yeah, they got around to posting a full review, and all I can say is wow. Just wow. For starters, as expected, the NC10 has one of the best keyboards seen on any netbook. I mean, the keyboard layout is pretty much…

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