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Asus Eee PC T91 official US product page up, US release date officially missing

Posted on 03 July 2009

How long will Asus continue to tantalize us with the Asus Eee T91 [Portal page]? It seems like ages ago that we first saw the tablet-netbook that promises to bring the tablet PC experience to the masses. While it seems…

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Archos 9 Demonstrated on Video

Posted on 12 June 2009

Charbax has posted a very good video of a working Archos 9. A couple of points to highlight are the optical mouse and the width which would create a heavy lever-effect when holding in one hand; a problem i experienced…

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Asus Eee T91 tablet-netbook finally official

Posted on 04 June 2009

After seeing the unit get ripped apart by the FCC and go hands on with plenty of people, Asus has just officially announced it via a press release on their site. While the usual marketing mumbo jumbo is present (they are…

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Lazion tests the HANSUNG SPARQ M7 - A version of the Clevo TN70M

Posted on 25 May 2009

We haven’t had time to test the Clevo TN70M yet but definitely have it on the list due to it’s low cost, long battery life and European availability. In the meantime we’ve got some details from the Korean website, Lazion, to…

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Asus Eee T91 tablet netbook gets taken apart, manual revealed

Posted on 18 May 2009

The much anticipated Eee T91 tablet netbook [Portal page] has just taken one step closer to seeing an official US release. The FCC has gotten their hands all over the computer and given us plenty of nice internal photos as well…

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ASUS T91 Pre-Production Hands-On from TechRadar

Posted on 14 May 2009

I haven’t been through this hands-on in detail yet but I wanted to highlight it ASAP to the readers here.

TechRadar have had time with a pre-production version of the ASUS T91 convertible netbook. This is the netbook that a lot of…

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Smart Devices Q7 Linux Tablet. Fresh pics. (Yes, more!)

Posted on 14 May 2009

Considering the SmartDevices Q7 isn’t a true UMPC and it’s going to be a relatively slow browsing device, it’s getting a lot of coverage on UMPCPortal this week.

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Smart Q7 Tablet. New images.

Posted on 13 May 2009

My Smart Q7 should ship from China on Friday so it’s interesting to see more live images of the device to try and get a feel for what’s going to turn up next week.

Three things strike me from the pics. Firstly,…

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Smart Q7 Tablet – Live Pics and Availability Info.

Posted on 09 May 2009

The $189 Smart Devices Q7 web-pad story gets more exciting today as we’ve received some live pics of the device. ElectroWorld, the strange looking Chinese website that many of us would probably avoid, have come up trumps after we contacted them for…

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Smart Devices Q7 7” Pad for $189?

Posted on 07 May 2009

Remember that ‘coffee table’ pad I was talking about yesterday? The one I said could be under $250? Well it looks like it might be even cheaper than I expected. http://www.eletroworld.cn have it up for $189.

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SmartQ 7 Looks Perfect for the Coffee-Table.

Posted on 06 May 2009

It looks like SmartQ are going to offer their SmartQ 5 device in a 7” version which not only looks very attractive but could really find a useful place on the sofa or coffee table of many a modern home.

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Samsung Q1EX TabletPC unboxing, Q&A, thoughts.

Posted on 28 April 2009

Ever since we outed the Samsung Q1EX I’ve had trouble positioning it. After an unboxing (see below) a 4-hour live Q&A session (1hr video below) I still cant see why Samsung created the Q1EX. It’s a fine tabletPC but in the last 3 years they’ve learned a lot about the UMPC market and they know that Tablet PCs can be a hard sell. What made them go back to the no-keyboard form-factor?

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Test: Gigabyte Touchnote T1028M 10” Touchscreen Netbook.

Posted on 10 April 2009

Over the last 48hrs I’ve been focusing on the Gigabyte Touchnote T1028M that has been sent over by Mobilx. 48hrs isn’t a long time but having done the unboxing, a full 3hr live test (recording) with viewer feedback (thanks to the…

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Guessing the Specs: Techcrunch ‘CrunchPad’

Posted on 10 April 2009

I was one of the ‘doubters’ that questioned the Techcrunch Tablet. I questioned what Mike Arrington said in his first information post. “If all you are doing is running Firefox and Skype, you don’t need a lot of hardware horsepower, which…

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Gigabyte Touchnote T1028M Unboxing.

Posted on 08 April 2009

Unboxing video and a few first impressions of the Gigabyte T1028M convertible touchscreen tablet pc/netbook

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Gigabyte Touchnote En-Route for Live session and Review.

Posted on 06 April 2009

I had a nice update call from Mobilx this morning where we talked about a number of things. MBook, Aigo and Mifi were discussed (more about those later in the week) but top of the list was the Gigabyte Touchnote shipment which…

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NYTimes: T-Mobile USA working on 7″, Android-based ‘Tablet’

Posted on 06 April 2009

There’s a lot of talk about Android-enabled devices out there but  in reality, we’re still in the position where there’s only one or two devices available.

The NYTimes adds more fuel to the fire by sharing some confidential information about another…

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