Back in June, Mobinnova introduced the Elan netbook, a new portable computer that offered 5-10 hours of high definition video viewing thanks to it being based on NVIDIA’s Tegra platform. It has been showcased recently and according to a report from DigiTimes it has already received orders from telecom service providers in Europe and North America, where it will appear before the end of 2009. Foxconn has been identified as the primary manufacturer of this Tegra-based “smartbook” while it is said that Compal Communication is also supposed to make one before year-end. Apart from supposedly excellent high-definition video playback and slightly longer battery life (than average), there doesn’t seem to be anything special about Tegra. I suppose I will have to see when I get my hands on a unit of my own for testing.

Via DigiTimes

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.

Via Digitimes

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.

Via Digitimes