Everex announced today that it will be releasing an updated version of it’s Cloudbook UMPC dubbed the Cloudbook MAX.
What makes the Cloudbook MAX better than the previous model?
Quite a bit, actually.
Features of the Cloudbook MAX will include:
1.6GHz VIA C7-M ULV processor
VX800 digital media IGP chipset which supports DirectX 9 and accelerates MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV9, VC1 [...]
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HTC announced today that their Touch DUAL smartphone is coming to the US and be the first phone released for the US market that will ship with the new Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system pre-installed.
The GSM-based Touch DUAL will be sold unlocked at Best Buy this spring and will work on AT&T’s 3G network as [...]
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While Dell reported an $11.6 billion profit last quarter, the company must know something that we don’t and has announced a new plan to reduce its costs by $3 billion over the next three years.
The company will be laying off 6,500 jobs (in addition to the other 3,200 it has laid off so far in [...]
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Nokia today announced a new addition to their N-series of Internet tablets, the N810 WiMAX Edition.
The N810 WiMAX Edition adds just what you think it would–support for high-speed Internet access on the go with WiMAX (previous editions in the N-series of Internet tablets have bee limited to Wi-Fi for high-speed access).
According to Nokia, the N810 [...]
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Sprint is in a bit of a tough spot financially and could use a big product to help bring customers back and they’re betting a lot on the new Samsung Instinct to do it.
How much are the betting? About $100 million, making it their biggest marketing push ever.
The Instinct is a touchscreen phone with features [...]
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According to a story at CrunchGear, Dolby and SIM2 are working on a new technology that will allow for high dynamic range (HDR) lighting on an LCD screen.
The way it will work is to employ three layers:
Layer 1: The main LCD
This would provide the color, resolution and contrast.
Layer 2: Backlight simulation
This layer will provide a [...]
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DigiTimes is reporting that according to industry sources Lite-On is developing a Blu-ray drive for Microsoft’s Xbox 360.
The drives, according to the sources, will begin shipping to Microsoft in the second half of this year.
Is it true? Aaron Greenberg (group product manager for the Xbox 360) says no, Stan Glasgow (US president, Sony Electronics) says [...]
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Polyphony Digital’s Gran Turismo 5 Prologue isn’t out in the US for a few more weeks, but it IS out in Europe and reviews are starting to come out.
So what’s the verdict?
While it is just a teaser of what will be coming next year when the full Gran Turismo 5 is released, what’s here seems [...]
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Palm announced today that their $99 Centro smartphone, on sale since September of 2007, has passed the one million sold mark.
Brodie Keast, senior vice president of marketing for Palm, said “the Palm Centro is flying off the shelves because users who want to step up to a smartphone see it s the perfect first choice.”
According [...]
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