Eee PC

This is probably not as popular now (or ever, in some parts of the world), but people used to buy pocket electronic dictionaries. I haven’t spotted one being used myself but bookstores still carry a few of these things around, just in case. With the roll out of UMPCs, gadgets of that size were quickly [...]

A sleek new Android-powered MID will be officially launched during this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, and it comes from a little-known Korean company called Inbrics. It’s called the M1 Android MID, and it packs the power of a MID in the form factor of a proper smartphone. You could throw it in [...]

Before I can even sit down and just revel at how open portable computing devices are nowadays, out comes this white little tablet computer with Google’s Android operating system and an empty cup of tea. Dubbed the Chinese iPad, this device features a 7-inch WVGA display, 600MHz ARM 9 processor, some buttons lined along the [...]

Viliv, a manufacturer of MIDs, has an upcoming smartbook in the works. Details are sparse but from what jkkmobile has posted it has a 4.8″ 1024 x 600 touchscreen, Intel Atom (not yet confirmed if it’s Pine Trail), the usual WiFi, 3G and GPS as well as a keyboard on its clamshell design. That one [...]

Sascha Pallenberg over at the Netbook World Summit discusses some of his predictions on the state of netbooks for the next year. Here are some of the highlights for netbooks: Netbooks at 250 euros or $300 with the new Intel Pine Trail processor. Linux start to get into more netbooks with the entry of Moblin and Jolicloud, as well [...]