The onslaught of Eee wannabes continues with Sungjut’s diminutive TangoX Nano UMPC adding a novel internal Skype/VoIP phone that pulls out of the laptop’s body.
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Category: Portable
Elonex Unveil £99 Laptop
Mover over Asus and tell Eee the news – there’s a new bargain basement laptop in town, in the shape of the Elonex One, set to retail for under a hundred quid.
The super, nay ultralow cost laptop is set to be wowing Brummies when it’s introduced at The Education Show in Birmingham on 28th February.
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MacBook Air: £250 Discount From PC World
Apple, a company not known for liking discounts to their products, will find that their new uber-slim baby, the MacBook Air is to be offered at a £250 discount in a deal at the UK PC World shortly.
Extending their ‘get a laptop for free when you sign up for 3 mobile broadband‘ deal, PC World have decide to include the Apple MacBook Air in the list of laptops that the £250 spending can be levied against.
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Mobile Broadband Contract Gives Free Laptop
We’re all aware of how many inducements there are around these days to get you to take up broadband, but here’s a new one to us.
Giant UK computer retailer, PC World, is offering a free laptop (or £350 towards one of their approved ten) to anyone who signs up through them for an 18-month 3G data contract with 3.
An example of a free laptop available under the scheme is an Advent 9912 (pictured), a Intel Celeron C530, 1GB RAM, 80GB drive laptop.
With the Mobile Broadband package you’ll get a USB-dongle modem with the ability to download at up to 2.8Mbps (YMMV).
The £35 mobile data service from 3 includes up to 3GB of downloads per month.
One Laptop Per Child Gets US Release
The One Laptop Per Child Foundation has focused its attention on the poorest kids in the United States, setting up a north American office and approaching state governments to get them interested in the cheapo laptop project.
Dreamt up by former MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte, the One Laptop project was tasked with helping poorer nations bridge the digital divide, developing a cheap (sub-$100) and rugged ‘XO’ laptop which they hoped would be bought en masse by Third World governments.
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What’s Apple Going To Release At MacWorld Next Week?
We covered Apple surprisingly announcing the new 8-core Mac Pro launched at CES … in advance of MacExpo, their usual launch-fest.
Apple never announces anything in advance, but there are many rumours circulating on the various Mac user sites which we’re brought together for you.
Ultra-portable
Most people probably won’t remember Apple’s foray into the PDA market with the Newton. It flopped, though it was incredibly advanced for the time. It’s now time for an ultra-portable to come back on to the scene.
It’s likely to be a MacBookPro type device with a touch-screen/ stylus. There may only be solid state memory, so it starts quickly.
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Review: Photos HQ For Palm (73%)
Here’s a natty little application for folks frustrated with the limited resolution of the cameras built into their Palm OS devices.
Photos HQ is a program that lets you snap photographs at a higher quality than the default camera settings, and offers a few tweaks in the bargain too.
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Orbit Speaker Review: Altec Lansing Mini Marvel (80%)
We get lots of stuff sent to us for review, and sometimes we can get a little blase about it.
When the Altec Lansing Orbit iM207 arrived, we were aware of they long background in providing speakers for computers, but were only moderately excited when it arrived.
Over the month plus that we’ve had it, this has changed quite a bit as it’s proved itself to be a compact, highly capable bundle of fun.
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Sony Shifts One Million Slim PSPs In Japan
Sony has announced that their less-lardy version of its PSP handheld gaming device has been eagerly scooped up by over one million gamers in Japan, notching up one million sales in September.
The slimmer, lighter version managed to fly past the one million mark in just eight weeks – a big improvement on the original PSP which took two and half months to notch up the milestone sales figure.
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Hauppauge Debuts “Dolby Headphone” Wireless XFones
Hauppauge have announced the availability of their new wireless 2.4Ghz headphones called ‘the XFones,’ sporting “Dolby Headphone” technology.
Looking a bit like the headsets worn by those blokes who wave those funny sticks about when a plane is taxiing (airport workers, not lost ravers), the chunky silver headphones pack a tiny USB transmitter offering a 10m range
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