In reading the crazily careening coverage of the reports that Apple is going to be working up a Netbook later this year, I stumbled across this post from The AppleBlog. Darell Etherington says that the Netbook OS is going to become the new battleground for fun and profit in the future. I tend to agree. [...]
Dell is slowly but surely taking off the warps on its Dell Adamo. You remember the sleek and sexy device that they teased everybody with at CES 2009? Well, now Dell has put up a video on the teaser site that features lots of pretty models (long, thin, necklines seem to be the leading [...]
Microsoft is getting ready to roll out a new line of notebook accessories. We’ll be seeing a new notebook cooling base and also a new Arc mouse design. More info after the jump.
Joanna Stern at Laptop Mag has published a review of the Dell Mini-10 Netbook. As usual she hits all the points that inquiring minds want to know about. While giving Dell kudos for a roomier keyboard and being ““one of the thinnest and lightest in its class,†Joanna isn’t pleased with the price point ($449) [...]
This original story from PCWorld is from November 2008, but I don’t see a posting for it here on GBM and I know a number of readers here use Windows Live OneCare as an anti-virus solution. Turns out Microsoft is going to be ending retail sales Windows Live OneCare this summer in favor of a [...]
Another day and the ball gets kicked down the field a little further on a possible Apple Netbook. Dow Jones, citing two unnamed sources says Apple will indeed launch a Netbook later this year with a touch screen between 9.7 and 10 inches. Another source is saying that other specs have not been decided. I’m [...]
Ever want to build your own robot, but lack the engineering expertise to build one from scratch? The guys from RoBe:Do make building an army of robots easy by offering up the Coppa ($1,649) and Silvio ($1,449). Robot buyers just need to add a netbook and a little expertise in at least one programming language. [...]
Dell’s offering a $99 discount on the Dell Mini 12, dropping the price down to $419. The $99 discount consists of a $49 instant discount and $50 stackable coupon. The Dell Mini 12 comes with a two-year warranty. For full details and the coupon code visit LogicBuy.
I wish I would have known this trick a while back when I went through two phones in the matter of just as many months Ben over on UMPC Portal decided it might be a good time to try and give his iPhone a bath. Not really, but the results were amazing. Throw the [...]
I had the privilege of meeting with Motion Computing last year and got an exclusive first-look at some designs for their new tablet pc and accessories. At that point they were all wood models, so I wasn’t able to fully appreciate the extent of what they had accomplished. Over the past several weeks, I’ve been [...]
If only the economy could be based on Apple rumors. DigiTimes is reporting this mornign that Wintek will be providing touch screen panels for an Apple Netbook that theoretically is going to ship in the third quarter of 2009. The Netbooks themselves will supposedly be manufactured by Quanta, who already make a number of Netbooks [...]
Remember that 3D video display I posted about on Friday (you know the one in which the video got pulled?) Well, lookee here. Turns out the baseball card distributor, Topps as of today is now offering 3D baseball cards, using 3D technology. Hit up this link to the New York Times to see the video. [...]
Today’s deal of the day is the MSI Wind U120-001US at just $309.99 after a $90 instant discount. It comes with a 10.1″ display, six-cell battery, 160GB hard drive and Windows XP. Free shipping is included. For full details visit LogicBuy.
This is news we would expect to see given that Windows 7 will make multi-touch available as long as we have the hardware. According to a DigiTimes report, Egalax_empia Technology (EETI) is gearing up to ship 7 and 12 inch capacitive touch screens in the fourth quarter of 2008. The EETI panels use infrared and [...]
Microsoft’s 2019 predictions got a lot of play a short while ago and deservedly so. ComputerWorld dredged up a series of AT&T’s ads from 1993 from the ““You Will†campaign. 1993 doesn’t seem so long ago, but in tech years it was a long time ago. (As the article points out the Web was only [...]
Samsung has gotten official on us, unwrapping the details behind their new UMPC – the Q1EX-71G that we first spotted at CES 2009. The Q1EX-71G goes for $749 at Samsung.com, but it can be had at CDW.com for as low as $729.99. Specs: 1.2 ghz Via Nano ULV U2500 2GB ram 60 gb harddrive 4 [...]
Today’s deal of the day is a Lenovo ThinkPad SL300 for $574, including shipping. This notebook comes with a 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo processor, GeForce 9300M graphics and an LED-backlit display. It’s normally priced at $865. For full details and the coupon code visit LogicBuy.
Glad to see this starting to happen, although I’m sure we’ve got a ways to go. The BeBook2 e-reader was unveiled at the end of CeBIT this week, although things are still not nailed down yet. What’s potentially exciting about the BeBook2 from Endless Ideas is that it incorporates at least some Inking. Looks like [...]
OK, it is Friday afternoon. It is really a warm day here and I’m going to head outside and enjoy it before I have to go into a dark theatre for a rehearsal tonight. But before I do, here’s a little fun Friday afternoon viewing. Imagine holding up a piece of paper to your webcam [...]
It looks like Microsoft has added to the list of features that one can choose to turn on or off in the Release Candidate (RC) of Windows 7. Jack Mayo goes into the why’s and wherefore’s on the Engineering Windows 7 Blog and lists the following new additons to the On/Off list. (You’ve been able [...]
At the recent Microsoft MVP Summit, (which I was unable to attend, sadly) Todd Ogasawara did a video survey of Windows Mobile MVPs to see which phones they were currently using. As expected from a gaggle of Windows Mobile MVPs you’ll see a number of WinMo phones (and multiple ones for most of [...]
This post makes me feel like I’m in a time warp. The Aigo MID is one of the first MIDs that folks were able to get their hands on. Rob and I got to take a look at one close up at CES2009, and the rep in the booth told us we’d see Windows 7 [...]
Today’s deal of the day combines a 10% coupon and $50 discount to drop the Lenovo IdeaPad S10 down to $314.40. The S10 comes with Wondows XP, an Intel Atom processor and 10.2″ display. For more deails and the coupon code, visit LogicBuy.
I picked this tip up from David Pogue on Twitter this evening. If you’ve downloaded the Kindle for the iPhone App you might be a bit frustrated that you can’t download a book directly from the Kindle App. Instead you have to open Safari on the iPhone, browse to the Kindle Store, find your book, [...]
Bluebeam’s lead developers talked aboutthe upcoming release of PDF Revu version 7.0 during a podcast on PDF Insider. Bluebeam PDF Revu is a PDF viewer and editor that has some great tools for tablet users. Karen, Ben and Peter of had to keep some of the new features under wraps, but the three features they [...]
It has been far too long since we’ve brought you a GBM Podcast. That’s mostly due to everyone on the team’s hectic schedules in our non-GBM lives, and we apologize to those of you who’ve missed the podcasts. We hope that GBM Podcast #66 gets us back on the right track and that we’ll be [...]
Asus has carried the Intel banner throughout its march to Netbook dominance with the vaunted triple E brand. I guess they just can’t stop checking for different options. Digitimes is reporting that Asus is exploring the possibility of using Qualcomm’s low powered platform as a potential future alternative.
Well, if you’ve been anxiously awaiting the public release of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Vista, now’s your chance. It’s available for download here, along with the SP for Windows Server 2008. Note that if you’ve been on the SP2 Beta, you’ll need to uninstall that before installing the Release Candidate. More on the [...]
What? A new UMPC? Amazing. Apparently Samsung is still hanging in there with the UMPC form factor and continuing to refine the Q1 form factor that, in my opinion, was the class of the field in the short (very short) hey-day of the UMPC. The NP-Q1EX is running the VIA Nano ULV U2500 processor coupled [...]
I’ve been waiting for good friend jkkmobile to post this video from CeBIT. The GigaByte Touch Note M1028 like the Asus Eee PC T91Go offers a convertible touch screen in addition to its Netbook goodness. Obviously we aren’t looking at multi-touch here, and indeed jkk says we’ve got a soft touch screen on the Touch [...]
I was very impressed with the Samsung NC10 Netbooks I got to examine at CES2009. That unit just felt right in my hands (the build quality was excellent) and certainly the battery life beat out the competition from all reports. The newer, larger (12 inch instead of 10 inch) Samsung NC20 is turning a lot [...]
Is anyone using the HTC Shift? Remember all the excitement and hope for that device that slowly but surely fizzled with each delay? Remember when Steve Ballmer held up the Shift in a demo? Such a shame really. But, for those who might be using the Shift, Gear Diary’s Mitchell Oke has installed Windows 7 [...]
Don’t tell my wife. HP is now offering an extended 6-cell battery for the HP Mini 1000 on the HP Shopping site. It had been available previously, but only listed as a part. Intriguingly enough it is currently listed as out of stock. The battery will set you back $119.99. Here’s the link.
Today’s deal of the day is $400 off any HP Pavilion dv3z configured at $1,199 or higher. The ultraportable HP Pavilion dv3z notebook is the one of the few notebooks in this price range to come with a backlit keyboard. For $799.99 you’ll get a well configured dv3z and a free HP printer. For full [...]
TabletKiosk has entered into the mobile clinical assistant market with the introduction of the MediaSlate i1040XT. Featuring a resistive touch screen and an Intel Core 2 Solo processor, the innards of this unit appear to be able to handle anything thrown at it — plus provide decent battery life and a rugged design! Check out [...]
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Droid RAZR MAXX First Impressions and Unboxing Video
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