A member of the MyDellMini forums has modded a Dell Mini 9 and turned it into a Tablet PC. Rob928 took the netbook, stripped the lid off and trimmed the hinges among other things. He used a “Honda Fun and Easy” solderless touchscreen kit to create the tablet. One issue that was found with the mod, is that due to the design of it, it can get a little hot. It loses it’s heat through the keyboard but because the screen is basically upside down, the heat isn’t ventilated. If that wasn’t enough, he also added Windows 7 to the device, which is described as better for a touch screen device anyway. You can view photos of the various stages through Rob’s Picasa account.
Last time we reported on the Skytone Alpha 680 was in April when the expected release date would be around 3 months later. Since then we haven’t heard anything else about the Android powered netbook but, live pictures of the netbook have now surfaced.
The netbook, when it is released will run Android OS, come with 1GB SSD, 128MB of RAM and 533 MHz CPU. The display will be a 7 inch touch screen. Unfortunately, the netbook is described as “not really stable” which means we still won’t be seeing the netbook for a while yet. Until it is released, the live pictures of the netbook can be seen after the jump.
Viliv chose IDF 2009 to showcase an upcoming convertible touchscreen netbook pre-loaded with Windows 7 Home Premium called the Viliv S10. Accompanied by the company’s so-called Shuffle touchscreen UI for navigation, the Viliv S10 convertible touchscreen netbook comes with a 10-inch 1366×768 pixel resolution display, choices of either 32GB or 64GB SSDs for storage, 1.33GHz or 2.0GHz Intel processors and 1GB of RAM. Built-in 3G will be offered as an upgrade option and it looks like the Viliv S10 will also have the built-in USB ports and an SD card reader, just as you would expect of any netbook coming out these days. It won’t be in stores until the fourth quarter of 2009, though, and it will be priced rather high for a netbook at $500 and upwards according to one Viliv representative who was present at IDF 2009 for the netbook’s debut/demo. LaptopMag has a hands-on video of the said netbook so if you are interested in learning more about it, head on down to the link below.
What seems to be a clone of the T1028 tablet-netbook from Gigabyte has surfaced in China, to join the masses of netbook clones already on the market, albeit a clone with a rotating screen which could be the first clone of its type.
The ‘Shanzai 100 See Ban Gu’ comes fitted with a rotating 10.2 inch tablet screen, is powered with an Atom CPU and is complete with a 160GB hard disk drive and 1GB of RAM. Netbooked.net have taken a guess that the screen resolution will be 1024×600 but, that isnt confirmed and neither is pricing. Shanzai do comment that the netbook will be out in time for the Windows 7 release although, they don’t confirm that this is the OS the netbook will come installed with.
We’ve previously seen one modder add a touch screen to his Eee PC 901 and built it into a kitchen cabinet. It seems he’s not the only one to make this move. Another modder has modded his Eee PC 701, given it 2GB of RAM, a touch screen along with a TV receiver and sound system. He’s then added it to a kitchen cupboard, making it a “Kitchen PC”. You can see the video of how he did this below.
An Asus Eee Reader is said to be in the works and that it will be released before the end of this year. This information is based on a rumor that originated from online news site Digitimes a little over a week ago. Today, the Times Online says that Asus is indeed working on a so-called Eee Reader, and this time it is said that the information came from the Taiwanese company’s president Jerry Shen himself. Also according to Shen, there may be an entire line of Eee Readers out before 2010. Perhaps they plan to cover all market segments with both budget and premium offerings with different features and price points. Asus apparently wants to make a difference in the e-book reader market as it did in the notebook market after it launched its affordable netbooks, portable computers that beat good old-fashioned laptops in every important aspect: portability, usability and battery life. Not to mention affordability. Read the rest of this entry »
Gigabyte have released another model in their TouchNote T1028 line. The original netbook featured a 10 inch display with a resolution of 1024 X 600. But a newer high resolution model is now available. The Gigabyte TouchNote T1028X features an impressive 1366 x 768 resolution on it’s 10 inch display. It also features the Intel Atom N280 CPU.
DigiTimes explains that many netbook makers will also be releasing touch screen models next year, but until then we’ve only got the TouchNote by Gigabyte and a tablet style netbook from Asus. Liliputing points out that, as of yet, Asus only have an 8.9 inch display model, with the regular netbook resolution, making the T1028X the only 10 inch touch screen netbook available on the market. These features do come at a price though and you’ll be looking at $678 from Amazon, or $698 direct from PC Micro Store.
The Tablet UMPC is going to be relevant again, with the announcement of the Archos9, the first 9-inch Tablet UMPC running Microsoft’s Windows 7 OS. This sexy little machine is billed by Archos as a MiniPC that does away with keyboards in exchange for a virtual on-screen keyboard and stylus support on a resistive touchscreen display. As it comes pre-loaded with Windows 7, multi-touch is going to be one of its top features, though we’re not exactly sure if that’s such as good idea with the screen being resistive and all. It still looks like a pretty interesting offer, though, as the Archos9 is equipped with Intel’s new Atom Z515 processor, 80GB hard drive, built-in Bluetooth and two DVBT TV tuners with “diversity reception,” as Archos puts it in its press release. Besides on-screen controls, it also has several hard buttons on its sides for easier access and controls. Archos hasn’t announced a price or release date, but from the looks of it, we’re betting a lot of people are going to save up for one. Watch out for additional details here.
Craving for Android on a 7-inch tablet? That’s exactly what the folks from Kinpo are busy with these days–they are working on a 7-inch Freescale-powered Android tablet that’s tentatively called the Kinpo Thin Client, as demoed in the Freescale booth during Computex 2009. The 7-inch screen of the Kinpo Thin Client sports a WVGA 800×480 resolution and as you might have guessed, it is a touchscreen. It appears to run pretty smoothly in the video but it is obvious that Android hasn’t been optimized for the device itself yet. Perhaps, as Kinpo completes the work needed for the Thin Client, we’ll see it even more as a finished product than as a prototype. Watch the video of the Android-based Kinpo Thin Client after the break. Read the rest of this entry »
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