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Pegatron AQUIC Netbook Shows Up

Friday, November 20, 2009

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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 [...]

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Android netbook debuts courtesy of SkyTone

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

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Netbooks have been a huge success so far, and the Android OS isn’t doing so bad either, so why not combine both? Well, that’s exactly what Chinese firm SkyTone has done in their latest offerings. The Alpha-680 is a Android running netbook that features a swiveling 7-inch 800×480 WVGA touchscreen display, 128MB DDR2 RAM, 1GB [...]

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China PMP Does GPS, Boasts 7-inch Touchscreen

Monday, February 4, 2008

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The VFGW-701 from Vensor International is a GPS-loving PMP equipped with a SiRF Star III module precisely for that purpose. TTFF (Time To First Fix) is 4, 35 and 43 seconds for hot, warm and cold starts, respectively. It supports WMV, AVI and ASF videos, MP3, WMA and WAV audio files, and GIF, JPEG, [...]

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AgfaPhoto Releases Linux-Equipped Digital Photo Frame

Saturday, January 12, 2008

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AgfaPhoto’s AF5080W is a digital photo frame that uses a Linux-based OS to get things done. It comes with an 8-inch LCD with a 800×600-pixel resolution, a USB port and a slot for SDHC cards up to 16GB in capacity. The device has a Freescale i.MX31 multimedia processor and WiFI capability. It supports a [...]

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Tsinghua Tongfang’s LimePC at CES

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

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We’ve been covering gadgets from Chinese manufacturer Tsinghua Tongfang even before anybody has heard of the name. We feel vindicated of all our efforts when the company revealed its totally delicious LimePC at CES 2008. The LimePC’s come in multiple sizes. In the picture above are the UMPC, HandheldPC, and PalmPC. All three devices [...]

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PMP Report Says Market Will Grow to 117 Million Units in 2007

Friday, April 13, 2007

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Forecast from Reasearch and Markets paint a rosy picture of the portable media player industry with the addition of an industry report in China. Global PMP sales will likely reach 117 million units this year and is predicted to be in the area of 162 million units in 2009. The reasons for the growth put [...]

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Aigo MP5 p881 to Make a Mammoth Splash Soon

Thursday, April 5, 2007

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Following the announcement of its McLaren Mercedes sponsorship, Aigo is not about to loose sight of what really matters to consumers: great products. Announced at CeBit, the Aigo MP5 p881 has a luscious 4.3-inch 720 x 480 pixel 16M color screen with 16:9 aspect ratio (the same as high-def TV). It is powered by [...]

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Opera for Devices.

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

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Opera 9 SDK for Devices has been pre-ported to Freescales widely-adopted i.MX family of multimedia applications processors. This solution enables OEMs to provide access to the Internet for consumer electronic devices such as portable media players, portable navigation devices, cell phones, ultra-portable computers and other Internet-enabled devices. This pre-porting accelerates time-to-market for OEMs who base [...]

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