The Nokia Booklet 3G made a pretty big splash when it hit the water last year. And then it kind of sunk. I’m not sure I’ve ever actually seen one in the wild unless you count a Best Buy retail display as wild. And aside from a high price tag and rather unorthadox case design, Nokia didn’t really bring that…

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It seems like every day we see a report of yet-another-iPad-clone coming out of China. But there are a few things that make the latest tablet from Shenzhen Utopia a bit more interesting than most. First, it has above-average specs for a cheap tablet, including a Freescale i.MX515 800MHz CPU, Google Android 2.1, 512MB of memory, and an 8 inch…

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Whether you like the iPad (or any Apple devices) or not, one thing is undeniable: when a new model gets released, Shanzai clones are never far behind. Often they sport far less impressive hardware, but Zenithink’s offering actually looks pretty decent. According to a post at Shanzaihaiben.com, the company is working on a new 10-inch model that will run Android…

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Sure, NVIDIA has moved on to its next-generation NVIDIA ION platform that offers even higher graphics performance and plays well with Intel Atom Pine Trail processors. But you know who’s still interested in the first-generation ION platform that bundles an NVIDIA graphics processor with an Intel Atom N270 or N280 chip? The companies making dirt cheap netbooks for sale in…

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The folks behind the Shanzai.com blog have been covering the cheap netbook and tablet knockoffs and original products coming out of China for a while. And then they got thinking… what if you could tap the capabilities of these Chinese manufacturers to build products custom made to match the expectations of Western consumers? And that led to the creation of…

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HP has a habit of dressing up its netbooks with special edition covers from big name designers like Vivienne Tam and Tord Boontje. So what better way to spruce up a Chinese HP Mini knockoff than by adorning it with a little bling? Of course, there’s bling and then there’s bling. And while the HP Mini 1000 Vivienne Tam Edition…

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Chinese PC maker CASZH has put together a prototype of a netbook with NVIDIA ION graphics. The unnamed machine packs a 1.6GHz Intel Atom 230 CPU and NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics, and the folks at Shanzai.com say it was able to play World of Warcraft reasonably well with frame rates between 20 and 30 fps. The netbook has a 10.1…

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We’re starting to see a growing number of Intel Atom powered laptops with 11.6 inch and 12.1 inch displays. And of course, the market is overflowing with 10.1 and 10.2 inch netbooks. But a Chinese PC maker apparently decided to split the difference, with an 11.1 inch model. The laptop has a 1366 x 768 pixel display, 1.6GHz Intel Atom…

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Hackers in the US have been slapping OS X on low power netbooks and occasionally carving an Apple logo into the lid for good measure for ages. But now an actual PC maker in China is cranking out an 8.9 inch netbook complete with an Apple logo on the lid… even though the odds of this device having any connection…

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