Posted on 11 November 2009 by
BoEye — a company we’ve seen from time to time in the eBook reader space — has been recently spotted at Dubai’s GITEX with its own take on the
Android MID. Aside from some obvious (and, quite frankly, tedious) comparisons to the mythical
Apple Tablet, we don’t have too much to report: some excessively iPhone-esque features, including silver bevel, capacitive glass touchschreen, and that familiar solitary button on the bottom of the screen; a front-facing webcam; and, of course, that open source OS you crave. If you ask us, our favorite part of the affair is the rumored sub-$300 price tag — makes this one well worth keeping an eye on, at any rate. One more pic after the break.
[Via Red Ferret]
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BoEye MID700 unveiled with Android OS, vaguely familiar form factor originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Original post by Joseph L. Flatley
Posted on 11 November 2009 by
It’s sort of difficult for us to say what exactly the Kohjinsha PA is. Part UMPC, part MID and part tablet PC, this mishmash has captivated us for quite some time, and while we were able to spend a few brief moments with it at CEATEC, the crew over at Pocketables was able to snag a shipping unit to unbox. They begin by noting that this thing is far from stylish, and while the hinge is almost laughably large, there’s something subtly satisfying about just how chunky it looks. Hit the read link to see if you agree — it’s cool if you don’t, you’re only hurting feelings.
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Kohjinsha PA series gets unboxed, looks kind of hardcore originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Original post by Darren Murph
Posted on 10 November 2009 by
NVIDIA just hit us with more info on that mysterious tablet Jen-Hsun Huang was pictured with yesterday, and the truth is just as we’d assumed: it’s a Tegra prototype from an ODM called ICD that’s being “actively” shopped to carriers around the world. Sorry, folks, no Apple involvement here — although we’re sure Jen-Hsun would enthusiastically embrace that possibility.
As far as the ICD tablet goes, we’re waiting for official confirmation on specs, but we got a credible tip this morning suggesting that it’s currently running Windows CE with a resistive touchscreen, and that both Android and capacitive upgrades are in the cards, as well as multiple screen sizes. We’re also told that the goal is a March 2010 launch and that T-Mobile might be involved, but we wouldn’t take any of that to the bank until we hear for real — stay tuned.
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NVIDIA tablet mystery solved: an ODM Tegra prototype originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Original post by Nilay Patel
Posted on 10 November 2009 by
True, this ain’t the first
Dell Mini tablet hack we’ve laid eyes on — but what we do have here is a pretty sweet mod by
MyDellMini forum member “rock99rock” (must be his confirmation name). In addition to replacing his Dell Mini 9 display with a touchscreen kit, our man re-jiggered an ActionXL motion sensing controller to allow the screen to rotate as you rotate the device. Not bad, eh? Hit that read link for some real radical
instrucciones — but not before checking out the enthralling video after the break.
[Via Liliputing]
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Dell Mini 9 modded into motion sensitive, touchscreen tablet (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Original post by Joseph L. Flatley
Posted on 09 November 2009 by
It was only two weeks ago when the ASUS T91MT — the first-ever Windows 7 convertible netbook — dropped by Amazon’s German site, and now the Eastern wind from Taiwan has finally reached US soil. Amazon.com buyers are offered pretty much the same configuration as their European counterpart: Intel Atom Z520, 8.9-inch multitouch swivel screen, 1GB RAM and Windows 7 Home Premium. While there’s only one color option available for now, those who’re cool with white will be spoiled with a 32GB SSD — twice as much as the German version yet $200 cheaper. Any students out there going to pick one of these up for some improved note-taking before Christmas exams?
[Thanks, Bernard]
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ASUS delivers Eee PC T91MT to Amazon.com, completes world tour originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Original post by Richard Lai
Posted on 06 November 2009 by
Remember those BASF commercials, the: “We make a lot of the products you buy better” ones? That’s kind of the story at MOTO Development Group. We’ve seen the company working on e-ink internals, also having a hand in the creation of the Zune 2.0 and the Livescribe Pulse. MOTO’s going it alone for its latest product, though, a MID reference design called the Android Media Platform (AMP) that runs Android 2.0 and is available now to developers. Yes, the DROID isn’t the only 2.0 player releasing today. AMP will ultimately be available in three sizes: 10-, 5-, and 3.5-inches; the mid-sized model is the one shipping now. That touchscreen can be OLED or LCD, oomph is provided by a Texas Instruments OMAP3430 CPU, accelerometers and GPS are integrated as is 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth, and optional 3G wireless, all powered by a 3,000mAh battery. There’s no word on price, but we’re guessing that’s somewhat negotiable depending on your intended application and, naturally, the volume, volume, volume of your order.
[Via OLED-Info.com]
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MOTO releases AMP MID, the OLED Android 2.0 handheld you didn’t even know existed originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Original post by Tim Stevens
Posted on 04 November 2009 by
Steve Ballmer might have no idea what’s going on with the Microsoft Courier tablet, but a new set of documents leaked to Gizmodo certainly suggests the product is more than just a couple videos the boss-man hasn’t seen. The images detail the Courier’s unique user interface, which draws on everything from multitouch gestures to pen-based handwriting recognition. The heart of the interface appears to be the Smart Agenda, pictured above, which pulls together all your disparate content like calendar entries, emails, and to-dos into one unified starting place, described as “Cliff Notes” to the Pagestream “novel.” The journal itself appears to be searchable by all kinds of data, including time, location, and tags, and it’s all accessed by a special multi-button pen. There’s also a camera and an offhand mention of “boos and subscriptions,” so it sounds like whoever was dreaming this all up considered using the Courier as an ebook reader as well — which would be totally sweet, given the types of annotations you could do. Of course, none of this is real yet, but we’re hoping against hope — please, Mr. Steve, make our holiday dreams come true?
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Microsoft Courier interface explained in more detail originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Original post by Nilay Patel
Posted on 03 November 2009 by
OLPC’s plans for a
dual-screen XO-2 laptop / tablet always seemed a little… ambitious, and it looks like even Nicholas Negroponte himself has now realized that it may be more than the organization is able to pull off at the moment. That word comes from a recent interview with
Xconomy, where Negroponte confirms that OLPC has indeed scrapped plans for the dual-screen XO-2, and says it will instead focus on a “model 1.75″ that has a design similar to the current OPLC XO but gets a boost from a faster ARM processor. Negroponte isn’t completely giving up on the idea of a revamped OLPC, however, and says that model 3.0 will have a “totally different industrial design, more like a sheet of paper.” That model apparently also includes “aspirational aspects” like an unbreakable, waterproof enclosure that’s just a quarter inch thick, a full color, reflective and transmissive display with no bezel, 1W of power consumption, and (here’s the real kicker) a $75 price tag by 2012.
[Via Liliputing]
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OLPC shakeup: dual-screen XO-2 out, ARM-based XO 1.75 in originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Original post by Donald Melanson
