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Archos unveiled number of products at a presser yesterday including three music players, one UMPC and three notebooks.   Starting with the DAPs, they unveiled Archos 3, Archos 2 Vision and Clipper. The full specifications are not revealed but Archos 3 seems to have a 3-inch touchscreen display, 8GB storage, voice recorder, accelerometer, stopwatch, calendar, [...]

  If you believe Digitimes’ word then MSI will be showcasing its Android based netbook at Computex to facilitate OEM orders from global PC vendors. They have sourced Chinese economic daily who also claim that the netbook has been developed in conjunction with Taiwan’s Institute for Information Industry. There is no info on whether MSI [...]

  MSI has updated its Wind range with the introduction of U100 PLUS netbook. The netbook now comes with N280 Intel Atom processor which clocks at 1.66GHz and five color options, including the new ones – Rose Champagne and Metallic Blue. Rest of the specs remain unchanged; there’s Windows XP Home OS, an 10-inch display [...]

  Our hopes weren’t really high when Sharp revealed its intention to launch a netbook. But here they are, and with their PC-NJ70A Mebius netbook, I think they are going to start a new trend. It does have the usual netbook-ish specs like 10.1-inch screen, N270 1.6GHz processor, 160GB HDD, 1GB RAM and all but [...]

  Toshiba has launched a rather bulky looking and pricey netbook for the Japanese market. The Dynabook UX Series does not have anything special onboard yet the netbook is priced at a premium, which is around the Japanese equivalent of $615. With that much money splurged, a user gets a 1024X600 pixel resolution 10.1-inch LED [...]

  Dell has announced 3G equipped Inspiron Mini 10 for the Chinese market. The Inspiron Mini 10 integrates 3G from China Mobile and is the first offering from Dell to sport a mobile broadband solution in China. Apart from 3G, the Mini 10 will come with a Z530 Atom processor, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, webcam, [...]

  With the unprecedented growth of netbooks, Sharp is also looking to make a quick buck by jumping on the bandwagon. They have held their netbook too tightly to reveal anything but have promised to spill the beans next week in Japan which will grace under the Mebius brand. We are not expecting them to [...]

  I am not buying the fact that Arrington posted the pictures of its Crunchpad tablet accidentally but what the heck, even if he did it deliberately (you know just to know the initial feedback), this thing’s looking really good. Not many details were revealed but the second Crunchpad prototype looks more polished and runs [...]

  Acer has took the veil off of the larger sized Aspire One netbook which we scooped in last month. The one inch thick device is powered by an Atom processor, up to 2GB RAM support, 160GB HDD and has a WXGA backlit LED screen. The connectivity options consist of LAN, Wi-Fi b/g, 3G and [...]

  UPDATE: Turns out to be that Aspire One D250 and 531 are two different products. The specs and the picture above is of 531. D250 is an upgrade over D150 model which is slimmer as well as lighter and brings in N280 Atom procoessor, optional 3G connectivity etc. It will sell for 379 Euros. [...]

  According to a leaked presentation slide, Dell will soon be revealing Latitude 2100 aka Welch range of netbooks. The netbooks will cater to the students and teachers and will be priced under $600. Though there is no confirmation if it sports touchscreen, rest of the specification is crystal clear: 10-inch screen, up to 2GB [...]

  Asus pulled the trigger pretty fast. The news about Asus prepping a new netbook broke out last Friday and a day after, they have given it an official acknowledgement. The 1004DN is the second netbook (first is Mouse LB-F1550W) to sport a DVD drive and features the usual netbook specs – 10-inch screen, 1.66GHz [...]

  Taking some insight from the retail channels, Digitimes is reporting that Asus will advance to blur the line between the netbooks and notebooks. Sometime in mid-April, Asus will reveal Eee PC 1004DN with an optical drive. Other info associated with this is that it will have an Intel Atom N280 processor with GN40 chipset, [...]

  Another day, another netbook enters the overcrowded Eee PC family. Asus has launched Eee PC 1002H which is nothing but 1002HA with some noteworthy changes. The netbook is now powered by an Intel Atom N280 processor instead of N270 like in1002HA and sports a chiclet keyboard. Apart from this, we have the customary netbook [...]

  Samsung’s barrage of netbook continues with N120. It is the third netbook launched within a span of two days and this one promises to give a keyboard of a 12-inch notebook packed for a small 10-inch netbook. In addition to larger sized keyboard, it will have a larger trackpad and 10.5 hours of runtime [...]