The Onkyo DC213 is another device from the Japanese maker that can spit out TV whenever you want.

Onkyo DC213

• 10.1″ screen
• 1.66 Intel Atom N450 with GMA3150
• 250GB disk
• 1GB RAM
• 3-cell battery

It also packs in an AM/FM radio so you can check up on news right then and there. The price for this thing is around US$480, not cheap but should be okay for the features it has. It’s likely going to be Japan only.

source PCWatch

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Now that Dell actually has plans to release a set of touchscreen tablet slates soon, I wonder what’s the use of getting a Dell Mini 9 modded into a tablet. For the sheer awesome geek cred of course!

The B-rock is now selling his beloved tablet netbook to fund some important housing choices and you can help him out. He’s offering a lot to go with the modded device including a lot of internal gadgets like a TV tuner, accelerometer, GPS, and Bluetooth plus a maxed out rig of 2GB RAM and 32GB SSD. He’s also up for a couple of weeks worth of after-sales tech support should you need it.

If you think you’ve heard about this before, well it was featured in a lot of blogs before and he did previously put it up for sale as a hackintosh though Apple balked at that and that sale didn’t go through. If you want to grab this fine little device, head over to eBay right now and bid on it! B-rock will ship to folks in North America and some parts of Europe.

source eBay

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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 replaced by smarter, more powerful models. The reason I brought that up is because Sharp has a new device up, about the same size of the pocket dictionaries they make. The Sharp IS01 is an Android device that’s actually marketed as a phone though it packs enough hardware to be a decent UMPC.

Sharp IS01

• 5″ 960×480 multitouch-enabled screen
• 1GHz Snapdragon
• 4GB storage
• Android 1.6
• 802.11b/g WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, 1Seg mobile TV tuner, IrDA, 3G CDMA module
• microSD slot, 5.27MP camera + 0.43MP front-facing webcam, 5-row QWERTY
• Weight: 227g

That’s a lot of stuff to pack in a phone! The TV tuner is a nice touch, though it’s likely unusable in most places except in Japan where it’s almost a standard in all their phones. It’ll start shipping in the latter part of this year so don’t wait up for it.

source Engadget

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I have my own Intel Atom based media center but it’s incomplete as it is since it doesn’t play over-the-air TV and it can’t play DVDs. Giada’s Cube N7DT is a promising upgrade that can bring both of those features in one single package.

Giada Cube N7DT

• 1.66GHz Intel Atom D510
• NVIDIA next-gen ION
• up to 2GB DDR3
• 2.5″ hard drive bay
• DVD burner
• 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth, LAN
• HDMI, DVI and SPDIF out
• TV Tuner

It looks like it packs almost everything you need for a media center though there was no mention of a HD audio output, which I’m sure it has. Swap in the DVD drive with a Blu-ray one and you’re all set for a complete theatre experience. And of course, you can still browse the web, play games and do Office work on this since it is still a computer after all. No info on price and availability, yet.

source NetbookNews.de

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I reported about the Black MacBook Air clone I spotted a while back. It seems shanzhai manufacturer DianJiTek does mine better by showing off red, black, silver and even bronze clones of their own. The specs are nothing to call home about: 11.6″ 1366 x 768 screen, 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270, 1GB DDR2 RAM, 160GB HDD, 3200mAh battery, Ethernet, and WiFi. The device itself is 2.5 cm thin, a bit more than Apple’s 1.94 cm for the Air.

It does sport a built-in antenna and hardware for Chinese CMMB broadcasting, probably something that can be modded to work in your own broadcasts in your part of the world. Like the previous shanzhai netbook we featured, it seeks to be different from the netbook horde by having its own brand – an umbrella logo similar to ones used by antivirus and backup software companies. Just like how shanzhai devices seek to copy and make other designs and ideas their own, shanzhai companies are also taking what’s effective in selling products like branding and premium design and incorporating it in their own products. The price for this netbook is about 360 USD with discounts for bulk orders.

via Shanzhai.com

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A new TV tuner from Telegent Systems called the TLG2300 has just been recently launched, and measuring only 10×10 mm, it could be a perfect accessory for upcoming netbooks. Telegent’s TLG2300 TV tuner integrates the following features: RF Tuner, Demodulator, Decoder, DSP & audio/video processing, Scaler, Worldwide TV stereo, FM stereo radio and USB 2.0. It’s the industry’s first single-chip CMOS that supports DVB-T, PAL, NTSC, SECAM, and FM Radio signals. And from the company’s press release, it looks like it can be upgraded via subsequent software updates.

Excited? Well, you should be, but this won’t solve the problem of low-resolution screens on netbooks, and not to mention the horrendous 2-hour battery life. Netbook makers will have to step up and work on that soon, if this kind of accessory is ever going to catch on in mobile circles. Though it would be a good thing to have to desktop setups just the same.

Telegent Systems [PDF] via Liliputing

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