Charbax scored another exclusive yesterday when he sat down with Archos other new tablet, the Arnova 8″. Like the 10″ model, this baby has is running on a 600MHz RK2818 CPU, with resistive touchscreen, 4GB Flash, microSD card slot, Wifi, speaker, microphone, and an accelerometer. It weighs about 17 ounces, and has 6 hours of [...]
Entries from February 25th, 2011
PDF & Epub on the Asus eeeNote
February 25th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware reviews
I came across a blog last night where someone had been documenting his experiences with the Asus eeeNote. He bought one back at the beginning of January, can you believe it? Asus really put a lot of work into this thing. The eeeNote has some impressive annotation abilities including scribbles, typed notes, and bookmarks. You [...]
NoteSlate website update, still no info on screen tech
February 25th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
NoteSlate updated their website this past week. This wasn’t just a marketing refresh; there’s a lot of new details about the device’s abilities. They’ve improved the firmware and expect to have OCR support on it at launch, along with basic gestures recognition, and improved format support. There are also several images that appear to be [...]
First look at the Archos Arnova 10″ tablet
February 25th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
I found some more info in the Archos tablets that cleared the FCC this week. Charbax got some facetime with Archos’ newest tablet. It does have a 10″ screen, like I though, and the resolution is 1024×600. It’s going to ship with a resistive touchscreen, but a later model should ship about April with a [...]
Asus eeeNote to sell for “under $200″ in the US
February 25th, 2011 · 9 Comments · hardware news
One of Asus’ official blogs just posted a promo post for the eeeNote. Asus are promising that the eeeNote, their e-reader with a grayscale LCD screen, will be available “soon” with a retail under $200. If that is for real, then the e-reader market just flipped upside down again. With that retail price it’s a [...]
Google ebookstore now live in the Android Market
February 24th, 2011 · 3 Comments · ebookstore news
A new section of the Android Market is now up and running at: market.android.com/books. I’m not completely sure that’s the Google Ebookstore, but I don’t see what else it could be. Some titles have previews available, and all the ones I checked require Android v2.1. They don’t appear to be apps; there’s even a link [...]
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Nook for Android updated
February 24th, 2011 · No Comments · software news
B&N have updated their Nook app. The new version 2.5 doesn’t really add much: A new library ‘grid view’ to see more of your book covers on one screen A progress meter when downloading books A new menu option in the shop to view or add books to your wish list But on the upside, [...]
World’s most expensive ebook now on sale – $1600 off
February 24th, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news, humor
There’s a book that I’ve been trying to buy for the last decade. It’s called Selected Nuclear Materials and Engineering Systems, and it has a retail price of just over an arm, a leg, a eye, and a kidney. Fortunately for me the Kindle edition is now on sale for a measly $6400. It’s almost [...]
1.8 million XO laptops are now in use
February 24th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
One of the mailing lists I follow is for the Sugar developemnt community. There’s been a debate going on for the past few days about the correct number of XO laptops that have been made. If you check the various wekis, websites, etc, you’ll get a bunch of different answers. Some count all the ones [...]
Intel Classmate hacked to run XO software
February 24th, 2011 · No Comments · software news, video
The Intel Classmate is a relatively inexpensive laptop convertible that was inspired by and intended to compete with the XO laptops from OLPC. I’m not sure what Classmate model this is, but I have confirmed that Argentina did buy this laptop to deploy in schools, and I’ve confirmed that the XO software will replace the [...]
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