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.

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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.

Via Computerworld

Well, it looks like the Chinese PC manufacturers have beaten their rivals in coming up with the first officially announced Google Android netbook.  From Skytone of China comes the Alpha 600 netbook.  And although this netbook has a higher model number than the Razorbook copy cat Alpha 400, it doesn’t seem to have that much difference in terms of specs and features.

Let’s see, the Skytone Alpha 600 boasts of the following specs:

• 7-inch TFT LCD True Color Display
• 800×480 WVGA LCD (flip around touchscreen)
• 128MB RAM
• 1GB Nand Flash SSD
• ARM11 533 MHz 32bit CPU
• WiFi, Ethernet
• 2 USB ports
• SD/MMC card slot
• 80 key keyboard, capacitive touchpad

While this may not the most impressive netbook specs, the Skytone Alpha 600 will just have to pride itself with the fact that it is running Google’s Android OS.

And guess how much the Alpha 600 would cost? – Just around $100. Given that price, we guess the specs are just about what you can get for that amount.

So, any takers?

via PC World