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Bookeen Cybook Odyssey: eReader with unusually fast screen refresh rate

At first glance it’s hard to tell the Bookeen Cybook Odyssey apart from any other eBook reader with a touchscreen E Ink display. But the Odyssey has a faster processor than most eReaders and that lets the device refresh the screen much more quickly. The slo sceen refresh rate we usually associate with E Ink […]

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Next-gen Samsung Chromebook ditches Atom for Celeron

Samsung is updating its Series 5 Chromebook by swapping out the Intel Atom N570 dual core processor for a faster (but still hardly top-of-the-line) Intel Celeron processor. The new Chromebook will still have a 16GB solid state disk and Chrome OS operating system, which means that basically the laptop will run nothing but a web […]

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Archos 70b $199 Honeycomb tablet with Android Market – video

The Archos 70b is a 7 inch Android tablet with a 1.2 Ghz single core processor and 8GB of storage. It’s the first 7 inch tablet from Archos to ship with Android 3.2 Honeycomb — and since it’s been certified by Google to support the operating system, it also comes with the Android Market, Google […]

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Giada adds Cedar Trail, Sandy Bridge nettops to its lineup

Giada is updating its line of mini-desktop PCs with a handful of new models with the latest Intel processors. The Gigada 135G, for instance, has an Intel Atom Cedar Trail processor, but packs a bit more graphics power than you’d typically get from an Atom-based system thanks to NVIDIA GF119 graphics. The 135G also has […]

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Ramos introduces budget tablets with Android 4.0 – video

Chinese tablet maker Ramos is showing off a whole new crop of inexpensive devices running Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. What’s particularly interesting is that even the leas expensive of the bunch look kind of decent. The Ramos W6HD, for instance, is a 7 inch tablet with an Amlogic 8726M3 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 […]

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BlackBerry Playbook OS 2.0 with calendar, contacts coming in February

Research in Motion will roll out BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 to the public in February. The OS has been in public beta for months, but RIM is showing off the new software on tablets at the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas and plans to roll out the update to everyone starting next […]