Netbook Reviews

Sure, everybody and their kid brother are busy launching tablet-style computers at Computex in Taiwan this week. But you know who already has a tablet on the market? Apple, that’s who. And apparently the thing is still selling like hotcakes, 2 months after launch. Today Apple announced that iPad sales have topped 2 million in [...]

Tablet PC this year, a born one, this time we look at the Taiwan iMito IM7, currently in mass production, engineering machine, we have photographed over two months ago. Overall, the look pretty good from the back, but the plastic frame is slightly heavier feel more, the screen is a 7-inch 800X480 resolution touch screen. [...]

While a number of wireless carriers in the US offer unlimited data plans for smartphones, there’s pretty much a universal 5GB data transfer cap on 3G service for laptops. Typically if you pick up a 3G USB modem or a computer with a 3G module built in you can sign up for service plans with [...]

CTL has been distributing computers based on Intel’s Classmate PC reference designs about as long as anyone. Over the past few years, we’ve seen models with 9 and 10 inch displays, Windows XP and Windows 7, standard displays and touchscreens. Today CTL introduced the latest iteration, and like it’s predecessors it’s target at the education [...]

Asus has been working on a Google Android tablet since at least the turn of the year. But the prototype that was on display at CES in January was a non-functioning unit, so we haven’t really seen what the Asus iPad killer competitor can do. Now DigiTimes is reporting that the tablet will be on [...]

Google has pushed out a new beta version of Google Maps for Android in the UK. The main new feature is that UK users can now get turn by turn directions on Android handsets, a feature that’s been available to US Android users for several months.
Google Maps Navigation shows you a 2D or 3D map [...]

Another day, another crop of stories about tablet PCs. What’s a bit unusual is that all of today’s stories are coming out of China, where the folks at Shanzai.com spotted a bunch of 10 inch and smaller tablets running Google Android. None are quite ready to take on the Apple iPad yet, but that’s largely [...]

The Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t is a 10 inch convertible tablet style netbook. Like a typical netbook it features a nearly full-sized QWERTY keyboard. But like a tablet PC (or iPad), it has a touchscreen display. What makes it somewhat special is the fact that you can rotate the display 180 degrees and fold it down [...]

So Opera Mini for iPhone has proved to be kind of a big deal, and that HTML-laden beacon of hope is putting a twinkle in some other developers’ eyes. Take Skyfire, for instance. CEO Jeff Glueck posted this week a congratulations to the Opera team for its inclusion in the iTunes app store — a [...]

According to “Nihon Keizai Shimbun,” the latest news, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. 26 to determine the latest plan shows that the company will, during the fiscal year the car with the Ni-MH battery capacity by 2.5 times. Investment Advisor in the new energy automotive industry researcher Li Sheng-mao said Sanyo Electric to increase production capacity, [...]