Asus plans to start shipping the Eee PC X101 netbook in September. First introduced in May, the X101 will be one of the cheapest 10 inch netbooks ever to hit the market. The netbook has a 1.33 GHz Intel Atom N435 low power processor, a low capacity 3 cell battery, and an 8GB solid state drive. The mini-laptop also runs…

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Samsung is set to launch a low-cost netbook in India. It’s called the Samsung N100 and in order to keep the price down, Samsung is using a low power 1.33 GHz Intel Atom N435 processor and MeeGo Linux operating system. It will sell for about 12,290 rupees, which is about $275 US. If the specs sound familiar, that’s because the…

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The Barnes & Noble NOOK Color is turning out to be a ridiculously versatile device. Originally positioned as a color eBook reader which just happened to run Google Android, it didn’t take long for hackers to figure out how to root the tablet and install their own apps. Now another hack shows that it’s possible to run a completely different…

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It looks like Acer is hedging its bets in the consumer tablet space. The company is currently selling a 10 inch Acer Iconia Tab A500 tablet with Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb. Now it looks like Acer will add an Iconia M500 MeeGo tablet to the mix later this year. While the company’s Android tablet is powered by a 1 GHz…

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The WeTab is a German tablet running a custom operating system based on MeeGo Linux with support for Linux and Android apps. The original WeTab featured an 11.6 inch, 1366  x 768 pixel display and 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N450 processor. But there’s a new version on display at Computex this week with a new chipset and a smaller display….

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Asus is getting back into the Linux netbook game with the introduction of the Eee PC X101. The company is positioning the new netbook as a thin and light model, measuring just 0.7 inches thick and weighing just 2.1 pounds. Those figures aren’t exactly revolutionary, but they do mean that the new netbook will be thinner and lighter than the…

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Intel has announced that four companies have committed to using the recently released MeeGo 1.2 code in upcoming versions of their Linux-based operating systems. MeeGo offers a user interface optimized for mobile devices including phones, tablets, and netbooks, as well as performance optimizations for Intel Atom processors. Linpus, the company that developed the Linux distribution used on early Acer Aspire…

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The developers behind MeeGo Linux have released the core images for MeeGo 1.2. There aren’t any dramatic changes to the user interface yet, but the update does include an updated Linux kernel, updated Qt, X.org, and other packages including a new telephony stack and updated audio software with support for Bluetooth A2DP streaming. Right now there are MeeGo 1.2 images…

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LG is holding a session at the MeeGo Conference next month where the company will show off devices running MeeGo, including tablets, phones, and in-vehicle entertainment systems. It’s not clear at the moment if this means that LG will definitely be bringing these devices to market, but it at least shows that the company is putting some of its research…

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We already knew that the folks behind the MeeGo Linux operating system were developing a tablet-friendly user interface. But if you were wondering what it actually looked like on one of those newfangled tablets with an Oak Trail chip you’ve been hearing so much about, Netbook News has you covered. They’re on site at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing…

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Nokia announced a partnership with Microsoft this morning to bring Windows Phone 7 to Nokia smartphones. Symbian and MeeGo will continue to ship on devices until WP7 is ready to go, but Symbian isn’t long for this world. So what about MeeGo? MeeGo is a Linux-based platform that was formed when the teams behind the Maemo and Moblin Linux projects…

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The folks at the Mobile-Review forum have dug up an image of a new portable device from Nokia running the MeeGo Linux operating system. There aren’t many details at this point, and it’s not clear if this is an early image of an actual product that will soon ship or just a test platform that Nokia is using internally. But…

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