The Dell Inspiron DUO is a computer that can be used as a tablet or a netbook. But while old-school convertible laptops had swivels that allowed you to twist the screen and fold it down over the keyboard, the Duo has something different: A display that rotates inside the screen bezel. Say you’re using the DUO in laptop mode and…

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It’s been 7 months since I first spotted Haier’s X220 10 inch convertible tablet at CES. At the time, I was told that the company planned to sell it in the US, but I was starting to have my doubts. Now the folks at Wireless Goodness have spotted a listing for the Haier X220P at the FCC web site, which…

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While 10 inch netbooks with Intel Atom processors are a dime a dozen, there are relatively few models that can serve double duty as touchscreen tablets. Aside from the Asus Eee PC T101MT, Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t, Gigabyte TouchNote, and a few Classmate PC-based systems, I can’t think of any other models available in the US. And it looks like we…

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The Gigabyte T1000P is a 10.1 inch touchscreen style tablet which features a high resolution 1366 x 768 pixel touchscreen display. You can operate the T1000P either as a normal laptop, or fold the screen down over the keyboard for use in tablet mode. First introduced a couple of months ago, the Gigabyte T1000P is now available for pre-order from…

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CTL has been distributing computers based on Intel’s Classmate PC reference designs about as long as anyone. Over the past few years, we’ve seen models with 9 and 10 inch displays, Windows XP and Windows 7, standard displays and touchscreens. Today CTL introduced the latest iteration, and like it’s predecessors it’s target at the education market. But it’s also available…

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Dell isn’t doing such a great job of keeping their product road maps confidential these days. A few days ago we learned about a new 7 inch tablet called the Looking Glass with an NVIDIA Tegra chip. Engadget published details for three unannounced Dell smartphones. And now Android Central has uncovered a product road map with details for several new…

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It’s been about 14 months since Asus first showed off a 10 inch convertible tablet-style netbook. And now it’s finally on sale in the US. You can pick up the Asus Eee PC T101MT from Amazon for $499 plus free shipping or from Mobile Advance for $509 including shipping. I checked with my contact at Asus, who told me that…

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The Asus Eee PC T101MT is a netbook with a 10 inch touchscreen display that you can fold down over the keyboard for use in tablet mode. The display is a 10.1 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel capacitive resistive touchscreen display with support for multitouch gestures. And the netbook runs Windows 7 Home Premium, which includes optimizations for touch input (as…

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Taiwanese PC maker Quanta produces computers that are sold by companies ranging from Apple to Lenovo. And that’s why I have no idea what brand name we’ll eventually see on this convertible tablet that popped up at the FCC web site this week. But as Wireless Goodness notes, it appears that the tablet has 802.11b/g/n WiFi, and measures about the…

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The IdeaPad S10-3t is the first 10 inch convertible tablet style netbook from Lenovo. The Wall Street Journal reviewed the netbook recently, but you could kind of tell that the reviewer hadn’t spent a lot of time using netbooks. Now Engadget’s Joanna Stern has given the S10-3t a go, and there are few people that have as much time playing…

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The Viliv S10 Blade is a 10 inch netbook that can function as a tablet thanks to a multitouch display and a hinge that lets you fold the screen down over the keyboard. Chippy from UMPC Portal and jkkmobile both have pre-production units, and they got together last night for an “open review” where they tested and talked about the…

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Taiwanese PC maker Gigabyte briefly added a product page to its web site for a new convertible tablet-stylenetbook called the T1000 today. And then it removed the page. Fortunately, you can still see Google’s cached version of the page. The Gigabyte T1000 looks like an upgraded version of the Gigabyte T1028X TouchNote. Like the TouchNote it has a 10.1 inch,…

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