Amazon offers its Kindle eReaders for as little as $79. But in order to get a Kindle at that rock bottom price you have to put up with advertisements as your screen saver. An ad-free version costs $30 more. Up until now the only Kindle with Special Offers models have been the E Ink Kindle […]
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BlackBerry PlayBook ad shows 7 inch tablet in a good light
Research in Motion has put out the first 30 second TV spot for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, and it does a pretty good job of showing the appeal of a 7 inch tablet with multitasking support. The commercial shows off the app-switching gesture support, which is probably one of the tablet’s key strengths. The tablet […]
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Fujitsu pushes Stylistic Q550 tablet for professionals… with tongue
Well here’s something you don’t see every day. Fujitsu has put together a series of videos to promote the company’s new Stylistic Q550 Windows tablet. The overall theme? It’s designed for professionals. But I’m not entirely convinced that’s the message these videos send. In at least two we see office pranks but no sign of […]
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Asus launches a painfully unfunny ad campaign for the Eee Pad Transformer
The Asus Eee Pad Transformer is expected to hit store shelves in Taiwan this week, and it’s due out in the US in April. So it’s not surprising that Asus is starting to promote the 10 inch Android tablet with the optional detachable keyboard which transforms the device into a laptop. What is surprising is […]
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How not to market your cheap Android tablet
I spotted an eye-catching press release today with a headline proclaiming that a “Three-in-One Product, Android Mini Laptop Netbook eBook” is now available for purchase from DinoDirect. I was intrigued… until I figured out that the $99.99 device isn’t a laptop at all. The so-called “7 inch Android 3G Mini Laptop Netbook E-Book” is actually […]
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Noefonie WeTab German tablet to be partially ad-supported
The Neofonie WeTab is an 11.6 inch tablet with a custom Linux interface and a home screen filled with a series of widgets to give you access to your most important information at a glance. Apparently along with updates from your email, instant messenger, news feeds, and social networking sites, that includes advertising. Tblt.de reports […]
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Well, that’s one way to sell a notebook
The Gigabyte Booktop M1305 is a 13 inch notebook that comes with a docking station that lets you effectively use the laptop as if it were a desktop by quickly and easily plugging in a mouse, keyboard, monitor, and other peripherals. It’s basically the larger version of the 10 inch Booktop M1022. The idea is […]
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Will Google heavily subsidize or give away free Chrome netbooks?
The day Google demoed Chrome OS for the first time, Brad and I had an interesting back-and-forth discussion about it. One of the things I was curious about was whether or not Google might offer Chrome OS hardware at heavily subsidized prices – or even free. Over at Linux Journal, Glyn Moody wonders the same […]
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Sony implies that the Vaio X is thin enough to slice you in half – Video
I’m not entirely sure how an ad comparing a notebook to a sword is supposed to sell laptops, but I guess Sony wants you to know that the upcoming Sony Vaio X is thin. Really thin. Like 0.55 inches thin. We also already knew that it would weigh about 1.5 pounds, thanks to a light […]
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Ain’t I a Woman? Della Markets Inspirons to Women
Kristin Shoemaker blogs at OStatic and Linux Librarian. She likes to take things apart and see if she can put them back together again in new and better ways. And she’s not impressed with Dell’s latest attempts to market netbooks toward women. Dell seems to have gotten itself in a gender bender. Fine, that’s a […]