It’s out of stock, due to miscalculation. Wow. When Barnes & Noble announced its e-reader Nook, we were led to believe that it was going to rival the Amazon Kindle. Well, it was certainly a success in its first outing, but then B & N dropped the ball and couldn’t produce enough Nooks for everyone who wanted one. Do you think Barnes & Nobles are happy that the Nook turned out to be so hot, they have no units left in stock?

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The Nokia N900 is still on a pre-order basis, but that’s apparently not an issue with Amazon as they’ve further lowered its price to just $479.99. This price is inclusive of a $50 mail-in rebate which previously stood at $560. We’re not sure why they decided to drop the price of the Nokia N900 by almost a $100 even before its released, but hey, this is definitely good news for interested buyers. As a quick refresher, the Nokia N900 comes with a 3.5-inch touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, a slide-out QWERTY keypad, and runs on the company’s latest Maemo 5 OS. So, will you be pre-ordering a Nokia N900 today or are you still hoping for further price cuts in the coming weeks?

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Motorola may not have been very competitive in the past couple of years, but they did manage to come out with a hit product this year in the form of the Motorola Droid which I personally believe is the best smartphone for 2009.

With a decently-sized 3.7-inch touchscreen, 5-megapixel AF camera with dual-LED flash, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, a speedy Arm Cortex A8 processor running under the hood all packed in a slim 13.7mm thin body, the Motorola Droid strikes the right balance between style and function. (more…)

We never thought we could get one this cheap. The Meizu M8 for only 199 euros? The original iPhone clone and erstwhile iPhone killer for only $295 unlocked. Why, that’s at least $100 cheaper than the original price. This is the same 3.2-inch touchscreen phone with a 720 x 480 screen resolution. The same Meizu M8 that boasts video support for FLV, AVI, MP4, 3GP, MOV, ASF, WMV, MPEG, MKV. This smartphone is unlocked and virtually unsurpassed in looking like iPhone without being, officially known as, an iPhone clone. The very same Meizu M8 that made one of the best PMP manufacturers in China what it is today–a mobile also-ran.

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The former OEM manufacturing arm of Asus (before they split), Pegatron, has showed up at ARM’s “Connected Community Technical Symposium 2009.” The Pegatron AQUIC (Always on Quick on User Interface Cost) Smartbook is an ARM-based notebook that, at least in the event, was running UBUNTU. It should have all the features and furnishings of the average netbook with a 10-inch screen. It’s a little more polished laptop compared to what Pegatron and Freescale showed earlier this year. Pegatron could officialize the AQUIC (is that the netbook model’s final name?) soon with, hopegully, the ultra-cheap price it’s promised.

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The 8.9-inch in-car Digital Cinema from Bmorn should probably never be taken out of the car, like the dude above did. Dubbed the BM-870, we hope the big screen has enough pixels to support 1920 × 1080 videos. Yes, it’s a full HD PMP with no mention of GPS or FM transmitter. Just your professional-calibre basic PMP to keep your woman happy (while she rides shotgun). Not that Bmorn hasn’t caught our attention. We’re certainly hoping there’s more than just 1080p video playback.

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After Rodimus Prime and Alphatrion PMPs, Ainol frinally announced the V9000HDX Megatron. The 4.8-inch PMP is simply seething with villainy with a capacitive touchscreen and supporting full 1080p HD videos and comes with an adequate 16GB built-in. I’m also like the 800 x 480-pixel resolution LCD and the 2450mAh battery. No pricing yet, but then again we haven’t exactly come across Ainol in any of the online MP4 player stores. Also, the touchscreen and 1080p combination makes this sound like a PMP you have to save up for.

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Now why do I think that the Kenwood MG-F516, MG-F508 and MG-F504 MP3 players should be sold at under $100 for the highest capacity version? For one thing, there are a good number of fancier-looking DAP (digital audio players) out there and most of them in slimmer hardware. Kenwood, of course, is a well-known audio brand, but come on it doesn’t even support FLAC or APE. OK, so you can drag & drop the MP3, WMA, AAC and WAV files but the 6 EQ presets cannot compare with JetEffect, BBE audio or even Microsoft’s PlayFX. Anyone out there things the MG-F500 will sell above $100?

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Owners of the Motorola Droid must be looking like the Incredible Hulk by now. Not only do their counterparts in Europe get to enjoy multi-touch, something U.S. Droid users have to do without–but in Europe, the price of the identical smartphone being sold by carriers has come down to almost nothing. For 1 euro, Germans can take home a Motorola Milestone in all its Android glory. Instead of shelling out the $149.99 or its euros equivalent all at once for the best smartphone in the world, customer can pay 20 euros a month (on top of their fees) as installment.

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Here’s an update on those long-rumored Apple tablet units in production. Its release, currently pegged in March of 2010, has apparently been moved to the second half of next year.

This is in respect to the prevailing prices of the LG OLED touchscreen panels which now stands at $500 and will be used in these Apple tablet computers. Since this will account for roughly 30% of the overall price of the unit, if Apple pushes through with the original date, the production cost of the Apple iTablet could range somewhere between $1500 to 1700 which is quite steep. So, as a compromise, since prices of touchscreen displays are expected to considerably drop heading towards 2011, a delayed release will have a significant effect in lowering the over-all price of these tablet Mac computers.

Two models were mentioned in the report: a 9.7-inch OLED equipped tablet, and a larger 10.6-inch LCD variant. Of course, being that this is from Digitimes, we’re taking this bit of news with a grain of salt and classifying this under the rumor category unless we hear otherwise.

[digitimes via giz]