Most of the tablets Coby is introducing this year feature ARM Cortex-A9 processors and support for the Google Play Store, suggesting that Coby’s cheap tablets are starting to bridge the performance gap with higher-end tablets from Asus, Samsung and others. And then there’s the Coby MID4331. It sell for just $81 and lacks Google Certification, which […]
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Farewell UMID, we hardly knew ye
UMID might never have become a household name, but the company produced some of the more interesting mini-clamshell computers over the past few years, including the mBook line of devices. These little handheld devices looked like laptops, but with 5 inch displays and tiny keyboards, they were really probably better designed for handheld or tabletop […]
Always Innovating Smart Book is a tablet, netbook, phone, kitchen sink
Always Innovating generated a lot of buzz when it introduced the Touch Book last year. The device is a computer that can be used in either slate or notebook form, but unlike older convertible tablets you don’t simply twist the screen and fold it down over the keyboard. Instead you can actually remove the slate […]
EKING introduces a portable tablet with a slide-out keyboard
Chinese device maker EKING is apparently working on a new mobile computer that appears to be a sort of touchscreen tablet with a 5 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display. What makes it different from all the other touchscreen tablets out there is the fact that you can slide the screen to reveal a QWERTY […]
Viliv N5 handheld computer reviews
The Viliv N5 looks like the love child of a netbook and a smarpthone. Or rather, it looks like a netbook that’s abotu the size of a smartphone. It has a QWERTY keybaord, an Intel Atom processor, and runs Windows 7. But it has a 4.8 inch display and can almost fold up and fit […]
Viliv N5 handheld mini-notebook now shipping in the US
The Viliv N5 is kind of what you’d get if you crossed an Intel Atom powered netbook with… something smaller. Basically, this little guy has all the specs of a relatively mundane 10 inch netbook, but packed into a device with a 4.8 inch display that’s small enough to fold up and put in your […]
UMID mbook Special Edition, now with faster CPU
The UMID mbook BZ is a mobile internet device with a QWERTY keyboard and a 4.8 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display. I have a habit of calling 10 inch netbooks “mini-laptops,” but this thing is best described as an itty bitty laptop. Now UMID has released a special edition of this little guy, with […]
Viliv N5 portable internet device pre-order pricing unveiled
Later today Dynamism will start taking pre-orders for the Viliv N5 mobile internet soon, with the MID expected to ship starting July 19th. UMPC Portal reports that customers who order between July 6th and 15th will get a spare battery for free, which is worth about $50. The Viliv N5 looks like a netbook’s kid […]
Dynamism to bring the Viliv N5 handheld to the US… soon
The Viliv N5 is a teeny tiny laptop (or an average sized MID) that we first spotted at CES in January. Now it looks like the mobile device should be available in the US relatively soon. The Viliv N5 is a little small for comfortable touch-typing, but this little mobile internet device has a 4.8 […]
Inventec Dr. Eye MID crosses a netbook and smartphone
Inventec’s Dr. Eye MID (Mobile Internet Device) has all the specs of a good smartphone… plus an odd name and a QWERTY keyboard that makes the device look like a tiny laptop. The Dr. Eye MID has a 4.8 inch, 800 x 480 pixel display, a 600MHz Marvell ARM-based CPU, and runs Google Android 2.1. […]