Can’t wait for the mythical Apple Tablet to sprout wings and fly? Here’s a mythical iPhone app that can convert your phone into a netbook with a QWERTY keyboard. Sure, it’s not real. And it’s highly unlikely that anything even remotely resembling this could ever happen. But it sure is fun to dream sometimes. Video […]
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iPhone bests Eee PC in a rather unusual typing test
You would think that a computer with a full QWERTY keyboard, even one with tiny keys like the Asus Eee PC 701, would allow you to type faster and more accurately than an iPhone with its touchscreen virtual keyboard. But then you’ve obviously never tried typing while in the back of a rally car racing […]
Another Apple netbook rumor rears its ugly head
With MacWorld just a few weeks away, folks are coming out of the woodwork with predictions that Apple will launch a netbook or something very much like it in January. This week’s prediction comes from Technology Business Research analyst Ezra Gottheil. He thinks Apple will release a machine that looks like a netbook (or maybe […]
OLO iPhone-powered netbook isn’t real, might never be
A few weeks ago a concept design for an iPhone-powered netbook started making the rounds. The OLO Computer concept would basically turn an iPhone into a netbook by allowing you to dock the phone in a larger chassis and use the phone as a touchpad while using a full sized keyboard and a larger screen. […]
Steve Jobs never said Apple isn’t working on a netbook
There’s been a lot of speculation recently about the possibility of Apple entering the netbook market. Almost every major laptop maker has released or announced one. A bunch of companies that you wouldn’t normally think of as laptop makers have too. And hackers have managed to unofficially install OS X on many existing netbooks. So […]
OLO Computer would turn an iPhone into a netbook
Who says all netbooks are alike? OK, I may have been guilty of saying something like that on a few occasions. After all, practically every netbook released in the last few months has a 1024 x 600 pixel display, an Intel Atom CPU, and similar storage and memory options. Sure, every now and again someone […]