AMD recently unveiled a new low power chip called the C-50 for netbooks and laptops. The dual core chip has a TDP of just 9 Watts, which is comparable to the Intel Atom N550, but the C-50 also features high performance ATI Radeon HD graphics on the same chip. Now it looks like AMD is […]
January 2011
Toshiba NB550D netbook unboxed (AMD C-50, Harman Kardon speakers)
The Toshiba NB550D netbook isn’t expected to ship in the US, but Nicole at Netbook News managed to pick one up in Taiwan. The little laptop is one of the first computers to ship with an AMD C-50 dual core processor and Radeon HD 6250 graphics, but that’s not its only claim to fame. It […]
Clover SunBook netbook with Pixel Qi display now available
The SunBook from Clover Systems is the first 10 inch netbook to ship with a Pixel Qi transflective display. That means you can use the netbook in full color mode for viewing pictures, watching movies, or doing just about anything else you’d expect to do on a netbook. But you can also kill the backlight […]
Android 3.0 Honeycomb on the NOOKcolor: Now with video
You know how we got the first photos of Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb running on the Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor the other day? Well if static images weren’t painting the picture for you, there are a couple of videos showing the OS running on the eBook reader/tablet. This is still an early build, patched together […]
Enspert E201 Android tablet on sale Feb 1st for $349
Dynamism has announced it will begin taking pre-orders for the Enspert E201 Android tablet on February 1st, with delivery expected to start a few weeks later. The Enspert E301 is one of the more interesting tablets I saw at CES this year thanks to its nice build quality and high resolution 7 inch, 1024 x […]
Google Android Honeycomb ported to the NOOKcolor: Doesn’t really work yet
The good news is that the first version of Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb has been ported to an existing Android tablet. Xda-developers forum member deeper-blue combined data from the preview SDK Google released this week with a kernel for the NOOKcolor eBook reader to get the software up and running on the tablet. The bad […]
Samsung moves 2 million Galaxy Tab Android tablets in 3 months
While the Apple iPad is indisputably king of the tablet hill at the moment, with Apple having sold nearly 15 million units in 2010, the Samsung Galaxy Tab is gunning for it. Less than two months ago Samsung announced that a million Tabs had been sold. Now the company says more than 2 million units […]
HP Mini 1103 education netbook reviewed: Not bad for $299
The HP Mini 1103 is the cheapest netbook HP currently offers for the business and education markets. If the mini-laptop looks familiar, that’s because it’s case design is nearly identical in most respects to the latest HP Mini 210. But the Mini 1103 has distinct left and right mouse buttons instead of buttons integrated into […]
Motorola Atrix 4G demo video: Could be the only mobile device you need?
Motorola has released a demo video for the upcoming Atrix 4G smartphone — you know, the one with the optional $150 Webtop docking station that effectively turns the phone into a notebook computer? It looks like there will also be a media dock which will allow you to connect the phone to a big screen […]
HP: webOS tablet to ship a “few weeks” after February 9th launch
HP is holding a press event on February 9th, where the company is expected to unveil its upcoming line of tablets running the webOS mobile operating system. And while it looks like the tablets won’t likely go on sale on February 9th, it looks like the wait shouldn’t be too long. Speaking to the BBC, […]