Earlier this year Liliputing quietly celebrated its third birthday. Mobile technology has changed a lot since we started writing about affordable portable computers in 2008. The cost of personal computing devices has come down, netbooks have started to share the spotlight with tablets (to put it kindly), and the line between smartphones, tablets and laptop and desktop computers has gotten…

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Analysts have been offering their best guesses for Motorola XOOM sales for weeks. But now Motorola has finally released a hard number. The company shipped about 250,000 XOOM tablets in the first quarter of 2011. The Motorola XOOM is the first tablet to run Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb, and while it’s hardly unique a few months after launch, Motorola was…

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Fujitsu launched a new 10 inch netbook this week. The Fujitsu LifeBook MH330 has a 10.1 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display and a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor just like every other netbook released since January. No word on when it will be available in the US, but it sells for about $500 in Singapore… and that got me…

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Judging by the comments left on this site, one of the most eagerly anticipated features for netbooks are NVIDIA ION graphics or other technologies that will let users watch HD video or handle other graphics-intensive tasks. And today Engadget asked their readers how they would change the netbook. One of the top responses? Support for high definition video and HDMI…

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<br /> <a href=”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1777758/” mce_href=”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1777758/”>If Smartphnes were better would you still carry a netbook?</a><span style=”font-size:9px;” mce_style=”font-size:9px;”>(<a href=”http://www.polldaddy.com” mce_href=”http://www.polldaddy.com”>polls</a>)</span><br /> The other day Engadget editor Joshua Topolsky wrote an interesting commentary about trying to get real work done on his iPhone 3GS. The verdict? He couldn’t. The on-screen keyboard certainly didn’t help matters, but the biggest problem was the lack of…

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April is over (has been for a few days, but I’ve been too busy). And that means the Liliputing Birthday Bash has drawn to a close. We gave away a number of great prizes, including a netbook touchscreen kit, universal notebook battery, USB DVD drive, and an HP Mini 1000 Mi Edition netbook. And we received a bit of outside…

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Astute readers may have noticed that I’ve been running a series of polls as part of the Liliputing Birthday Bash contests. I find that it’s often easier to get people to respond to a poll than to leave comments on a blog, so while I already had a sense of what the most vocal Liliputing readers thought about some of…

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If you’ve been visiting Liliputing for a while, you might remember that I used to post a weekly poll. I decided to eliminate this feature a month or two ago after deciding that I had too many third party plugins on the page and they were slowing down page load speeds. I’m still working to improve the page loads, but…

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