The MSI Wind U270 notebook is a thin and light laptop with an 12 inch display and AMD processor. Last year’s model came with a 1.65 GHz AMD E-450 dual core processor and 6320 graphics. Now MSI is introducing a new model with a slightly faster model with a 1.7 GHz AMD E2-1800 chip and Radeon HD 7340 graphics. The…
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Japanese PC maker NEC is introducing its first ultrabook. The NEC LaVie Z is a 2.2 pound notebook with a 13.3 inch display and a magnesium alloy case. It’s due out in Japan this summer. NEC isn’t sharing any details about the processor, storage, screen resolution, or much of anything else. But if the summer launch schedule is anything to…
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NEC’s latest Android tablet is now available in Japan. The NEC Medias Tab N-06D features a 7 inch display and an impressive array of connectivity options including NFC, LTE, GPS, Bluetooth 4.0, and WiFi. There’s even an optional 1Seg TV receiver for viewing over-the-air digital television broadcasts in Japan. Unfortunately the Medias Tab also runs the dated Android 2.3 Gingerbread…
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Sharp is introducing a new 10 inch tablet in Japan which features a spec sheet that looked like it was ripped from last year’s headlines. The Sharp RW-T110 tablet has a 10.1 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display, a 1 GHz TI OMAP 4430 dual core processor and Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread software. It ha s8GB of storage, and a…
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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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This summer Sharp unveiled a new 7 inch Android tablet. Now it’s available for purchase in Japan. The new tablet runs Google Android 3.2 Honeycomb, has a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, and a 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor. It has 1GB of RAM, 8GB of storage, and a microSD Card slot. Sharp’s Galapagos EB-A71GJ-B also has…
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Asus has a new 11.6 inch notebook coming out soon. It’s called the Asus U24E and it features a 1366 x 768 pixel display, An Intel Core i5-2430M processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 750GB hard drive. The laptop weighs about 3.3 pounds and will likely cost far less than the other 11.6 inch notebook Asus just released. That’s because the…
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Japanese computer maker NEC is preparing a thin and light notebook powered by Google Android. The folks at PC Watch got a chance to check out an early prototype of the NEC MGX, which measures just 9.9mm thick. That’s less than 0.4 inches, making the little notebook thinner than many Android tablets. Unlike a tablet though, the MGX has a full…
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Japanese wireless carrier KDDI will soon offer a new Android tablet from Asus… and it’s one that sort of came out of nowhere. Asus hasn’t made any official announcements about the Asus TOUGH ETBW11AA in the West, so I’m guessing this one’s a Japanese exclusive for now, but the folk sat Impress got a chance to check out the new…
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Late last year Sharp launched a line of Android tablets in Japan under the Galapagos name. Initially the company offered 5.5 inch and 10.8 inch models that were marketed as digital media consumption devices, complete with digital book and magazine stores. Now Sharp is discontinuing the original Galapagos devices, but the recently unveiled 7 inch model will continue to live…
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Tablets running Windows 7 might not be as thin or light as Android or iOS tablets, they may not always get the same kind of battery life, and they may not be as popular with consumers these days. But there are a few things you can do with a Windows tablet that you can’t yet do with an Android tablet…
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Apple has been aggressively pushing courts across the globe to prohibit sales of Samsung smartphones and tablets. In Germany the company has succeeded in getting a preliminary injunction on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales, and the new Galaxy Tab 7.7 was pulled from the IFA trade show floor just days after it was first introduced. In Australia Samsung has temporarily…
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