Over the past year or so we’ve seen a number of cheap Chinese tablets running Windows and designed to look like an oversized iPhone. In fact, these iPhone-clonesque tablets were coming out even before Apple officially unveiled the iPad — which looks a bit like an iPhone, but which has its own distinctive design elements. So it was really only…

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Haleron has announced that its iLet HAL 7 inch tablet is now shipping. The iLet HAL features a 600Mhz VIA ARM-based CPU, an 800 x 480 pixel display, 802.1/bg/ WiFi, 2GB of storage, 128MB of RAM, and a SDHC card slot that supports up to 32GB of additional storage. It looks like the HAL comes in two sizes. You can…

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Haleron has released a short video showing just what the company’s 7 inch, Windows CE powered Swordfish Mini smartbook can do. And what it can do turns out to be exactly what you would expect a tiny, mini-laptop running Windows CE to do. It can run Microsoft’s mobile office suite, and the latest mobile version of Internet Explorer and Windows…

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Avoiding the cardinal rule of not naming your new computer product after the world’s most famous homicidal computer, the folks at Haleron are calling their latest 7 inch tablet the iLet Mini HAL. The HAL comes hot on the heels of the original iLet Mini. The new version ups the game with a faster 600MHz VIA processor and it drops…

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While a few dozen companies are promising to launch tablets this year to compete with the elephant-in-the-room Apple iPad, it looks like Haleron decided to get a head start on things with the launch of a 7 inch touchscreen tablet called the iLet Mini. The device isn’t exactly the most powerful device I’ve seen lately. It has a 300MHz ARM-based…

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Netbook maker Haleron is now taking orders for a 7 inch mini-laptop with an ARM-based processor. The Haleron Mini Swordfish Smartbook looks like a minor update to the Mio Smartbook Haleron introduced last year. In addition to the new name, the Mini Swordfish got a bump from a 266MHz CPU to a 300MHz processor and a price drop from $189…

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Haleron is best known for making off-the-wall products such as a netbook with two processors (not dual core, mind you, but two CPUs), and a netbook operating system that Haleron claims will run Linux, Google Android, and Windows apps. The company’s latest promise is a 10 inch tablet PC called the iLET that will ship on February 15th for $419….

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PC maker Haleron is pushing a new Linux-based operating system that the company claims will be able to run Linux, Windows, and Google Android applications. it’s based on SUSE Linux, but it includes WINE out of the box, which should help it run some, but not all Windows apps. it also includes software that should let you run applications designed…

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Think that the only new thing PC maker Haleron has up its sleeve is that Ocean OS for netbooks? Think again, because it looks like Haleron has added a dirt cheap Smartbook to its line of mini-laptops. The Mio Smartbook is a low power devices with a 7 inch display. It sells for $189, although it looks like you have…

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Most companies that want to put out a netbook take a safe and well traveled route, but putting out a machine with extraordinarily ordinary specs: 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU, 1GB of RAM, 160GB to 250GB hard drive, and Windows XP, Windows 7, or maybe a Linux distribution like Ubuntu or Linpus Linux Lite. Haleron isn’t most companies. First, Haleron…

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Electronics maker Haleron is making a habit of cramming dual core chips (or just plain dual processors) into netbooks. Today the company announced via Twitter that it’s upcoming Bold Series netbook will sport an Intel Atom D510 processor. The D510 is an upcoming dual core low power chip that’s part of Intel’s Pine Trail line of next-generation Atom processors. That’s…

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Remember Haleron? They’re the company that surprised and kind of horrified the world a few weeks ago with the announcement of the Swordfish Net102 netbook that sports two separate Intel Atom N270 processors. Not a dual core CPU — two separate CPUs sucking up your power and most likely not talking to one another properly to actually help improve performance….

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