admin | September 29, 2009
Ross Rubin (@rossrubin) contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.
The original Asus Eee PC took on the challenging North American market for a small notebook PC and was so successful that it created a new wave of product that’s turned the PC business upside down. And although Asus has since released over a [...]
admin | September 29, 2009
It’s one thing to read a product preview here and there, but if you really want the Maemo 5 experience before you’re even able to set foot in a store and buy an N900, look no further than mobile-review’s characteristically exhaustive look at the platform. From the endless array of screenshots, you quickly get the [...]
admin | September 29, 2009
Counting down the moments with your besties until T-Mobile USA opens up the pre-order page for Motorola’s first-ever Android device? Might as well do something more productive in the meanwhile, particularly since the aforesaid carrier has just announced plans to charge $199.99 for the CLIQ on a two-year agreement. Without a doubt, that’s quite a [...]
admin | September 28, 2009
Poor Zipit. As a $149.99 instant messenger client nobody got particularly excited about you. Even now, as a $38 IM client you aren’t exactly in high demand — but as a $38 portable Linux machine, well, that’s another story altogether. The machines have been tweaked before, but the latest and greatest is this hack from [...]
admin | September 27, 2009
The HTC Leo has already got hearts-aflutter the world over with its high-end spec sheet and huge capacitive touchscreen, but now that some early benchmarks have hit we might have a full-on fanboy panic on our hands. That 1GHz Snapdragon processor isn’t just for show, people — you’re looking at least a 300 percent improvement [...]
admin | September 27, 2009
Miruko is the creepiest gaming device we’ve seen in a while — but it’s also downright awesome. A robotic interface boasting WiFi and a built-in camera, it’s designed to be worn and used in augmented reality, real life gaming situations, able to detect things — like monsters — that are invisible to the human [...]
admin | September 27, 2009
It’s been a bit of a wait, but nettop enthusiasts are sure to be happy to hear this one. Acer’s NVIDIA Ion-powered Aspire Revo is now shipping from Newegg. The nettop — which boasts a 1.6GHz Intel Atom 230 processor, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a 160GB hard drive and Windows XP Home Edition — got [...]
admin | September 26, 2009
The slow wave of NVIDIA Ion-based machines continues to wash in — as expected, the Lenovo Q110 nettop is now on sale. We’d actually wait another couple weeks to score this rig with Windows 7 preloaded, but if you’re into Vista you can grab it right now for $399 with 2GB of RAM and a [...]
admin | September 25, 2009
We had a pretty clear indication that this one was coming, but it looks RAmos has finally gotten official with its once mysterious Android-based MID, now known from here on out as the W7. As rumored, this one is a Rockchip-powered device, and packs a 4.8-inch, 800 x 480 touchscreen, 720p video support (via HDMI [...]
admin | September 25, 2009
Steve Ballmer’s talk at Microsoft’s Venture Capital Summit yesterday may have only been open to a select few, but non-VCs can now get the next best thing courtesy of TechCruch, which got a chance to sit down with Ballmer following the event. In the wide-ranging interview, Ballmer discusses Microsoft’s new “three screens and a cloud” [...]
