While you won’t find a lot of netbooks with MeeGo Linux preloaded in the US right now, Russian PC maker DNS is showing off a 10 inch mini-laptop powered by the open source operating system. The folks at Netbook News got a chance to check it out recently. The specs aren’t anything to write home about. The DNS netbook has…

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The Archos Arnova A80KSC is an 8 inch Android tablet due out in Russia soon, and possibly other countries as well. The folks at Russian site The eBook posted the first photos of the tablet last week, and now they’ve followed up with an in-depth overview of the device. Here’s the short version: The Arnova A80KSC is designed to be…

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Want to pick up a netbook running MeeGo Linux and don’t want to go with the Fujitsu MH330? No problem. Russian PC maker iRU offers a MeeGo netbook called the iRU Intro 102. The netbook has a 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N450 processor, GMA 3150 graphics, a 10.1 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard…

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Just in case you thought tablets only showed up in China these days, Rover Computer has introduced 5 new tablets that will be hitting Russia later this year. That includes a 7 inch touchscreen tablet called the Air G70 which will run Windows CE 6.0 and 4 models running Google Android. The Air G70 has a 667MHz ARM11 CPU, 256MB…

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Samsung is introducing two new 10.1 inch netbooks in Russia. From the photos, it looks like the Samsung N130 and N140 are a cross between the Samsung Go and N110. I can’t tell for sure from the pictures, and my Russian is rusty nonexistent, but it looks like base of the netbook has a rubberized finish, a la the Go….

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I’m starting to think Russia is breeding a new species of super-netbook hackers. All the coolest netbook-to-carputer hacks I’ve seen have come out of Russia. And now another Russian hacker has decided that rather than waiting for Asus to release it’s Eee Keyboard, he would build his own by cramming the guts of an Eee PC 900 into a Sven…

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Samsung and Yota are launching a version of the Samsung NC10 netbook in Russia with support for WiMAX mobile broadband connectivity. The Yota network suports speeds of up to 10MB/s. The netbook will be available starting this week for 19,900 Rubles, which is the equivalent of about $597 US. Aside from the WiMAX support, this is a standard run of…

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It’s been a few months since I’ve seen a good hack for cramming an Eee PC into an automobile dashboard. Fortunately, another Russian hacker who has what I can only assume are some mad skills and way too much time on his hands, has posted an article showing exactly how to take a 7 inch Eee PC apart and turn…

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Russian netbook fans are getting a rebranded version of the MSI Wind U100 laptop. You can already pick up a U90, which is the 9 inch version of the Wind in Russia. But for those looking for a roomier 10 inch screen, there’s the Roverbook Neo U100. The Neo U100 appears to be prety much identical to the version of…

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