A couple of months back, an 11.1 inch netbook arrived in China under the name of Olevia X11A. It appears that the company has changed the name of the netbook but, the model number, design and specifications remain the same. This time round it’s called the Yones X11A. As the model number suggests, it features an 11.1 inch display and a 1366×768 resolution. Other specs you’ll find on the Chinese netbook include Intel Atom N270 processor, Windows XP OS, 3 USB ports, a card reader and a SIM card slot allowing 3G connectivity.
Sascha over at Netbook News has checked the netbook out and given us a video of it, which you can view below.
At first glance, the CZC C9 by Zichuang Technology appears to be the thinnest netbook. On closer inspection of the specifications though, while it may feature a 8.9 inch display, the C9 is a SmartBook instead of a netbook, so not quite the world’s thinnest netbook. It does however give the Mac Air a run for it’s money size wise. It measures 0.5cm and weighs in at 0.75kg.
Under the hood it features an ARM processor, customized Linux operating system, 1GB of RAM and 8GB of SSD storage. It also includes 2 USB ports, 1 VGA port and web camera.
The battery on the C9 is said to last for 6-9 hours. No information on when the smartbook is to be released but, it’ll be on sale for around $220 in China in three colours, black, white or pink.
Over at Netbook News, they’ve spotted a netbook identical to the NC10 in China. The model of the netbook is ND10 and is practically identical to it’s predecessor the Nc10. Featuring a 10 inch display, along with N270 Intel Atom CPU. The main difference between the two netbooks however, is the ND10 doesn’t come loaded with an Operating System. Customers can either purchase XP to install on it, or stick with a free operating system like Linux, Ubuntu, Android, etc. With the NC10 being phased out and replaced with the N110, N310 and N510, it’s unlikely that this netbook will be spotted outside of China.
China’s Skytone, which officially announced its upcoming Android-powered Alpha 680 netbook a week back, says the retail price of their product when it comes out within the next three months could be $250. For a “netbook” that only has a 7-inch screen, 128 MB of DDR2 RAM, 1GB SSD, and 533 MHz ARM processor, the Alpha 680 is raising a lot of expectations, primarily because it promises to be the world’s first netbook to be truly running Android as an OS. At its base configuration, the Alpha 680 is projected to cost the earlier mentioned $250 retail price, but it is said that the company is working on ways to bring it down by launch. For now, its specs are somewhat appealing, and the price is still quite forgivable, but we’ll have to wait for a chance at using it in real life to judge if it’s really worth any of our attention.
Yesterday, there was a report on the Chinese-language Commercial Times that said Foxconn was stepping into the white-box netbook market in China. Well, today a new report has surfaced and it says Foxconn has denied its supposed move to sell white-box netbooks in China, having filed an announcement of firm denial with the Taiwan Stock Exchange. So much for being the newest entrant into the netbook category.
Foxconn is said to have recently started selling white-box netbooks in China for local brands, while MSI and Gigabyte have entered the same market to offer motherboards to different local vendors. This is according to a new report on China’s Commercial Times, where it is also said that Foxconn’s netbook costs about $365 USD. No other details regarding the Foxconn netbook specs were revealed, but it is noted that it is competitve when compared to the cost of netbooks from first-tier brands like Asus, Acer and MSI.
A handset maker in Hong Kong called BYD Electronic is said to be planning on entering the currently highly profitable netbook market with its own offering of OEM netbooks. This report first originated from media in China, and it is also said that BYD’s move is in line with the current trend of OEM handset makers in China venturing into the booming netbook market for OEM netbooks. Initially, BYD may use an R&D team from China-based PC maker TCL to develop its netbook-manufacturing capability.
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