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Teso is showing off a 9.7 inch tablet which will apparently be available with a choice of a 1.2GHz Intel Atom Z515 chip or a 1.9GHz Intel Atom Z650 processor. With the Z515 chip, the tablet will be Windows 7 capable, but the Atom Z6xx Moorestown series of chips are designed to use less energy than their predecessors, so despite the higher clock speed of the Z650, Teso says the tablet will run Android 2.2 or MeeGo Linux with this chip instead of Windows.

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According to Notebook Italia, the new model will us an AMD Athlon II Neo K125 processor and ATI Radeon HD 4225 graphics. The machine also has an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, 3G of memory, a 320GB hard drive, Bluetooth, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, and a 6 cell battery.

The Samsung Z125 reportedly weighs 3.3 pounds and measures 11.7? x 8.2? x 1.2?. It will come in balck or white and ru Windows 7 Home Premium.

There’s no word on a launch date, but Notebook Italia says the notbeook will sell for 499 Euros or about $648 US.

As Netbook News notes, there’s an official product page at Samsung UK, and Amazon UK is taking pre-orders for £441 (about $688 in US dollars).

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The netbook will sell in Taiwan for the equivalent of about $370 US. No word on whether this model will be available in other parts of the globe anytime soon… or ever.

Earlier we’d heard that Acer would make a dual-boot version of the Acer Aspire One D260 available, but that doesn’t seem to have happened yet.

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The tablet also has a 2MB webcam, a 2200mAh battery, a gravity sensor, SIM card slot, light sensor, and pretty much everything else you would expect from an Android smartphone — including access to the Google Android Market.

Last month Expansys USA started taking pre-orders for the Huawei S7 tablet, but that model, which runs $360, hasn’t begun to ship yet — despite an original estimated ship date of July 7th. Now that date has been pushed back to September 6th.

But Expansys is offering another model which is virtually identical except for the fact that it comes with a 32GB SDHC card. And the retailer says this version should be released July 30th. I’d take that date with a grain of salt though. Since the only difference between the two models is the bundling of a high capacity SDHC card, I can’t help but wonder if Expansys could start selling the cheaper model this week too, but is deciding to only offer the pricier model due to limited supply and the urge to make a little more money.

On the other hand, it’s possible that one or both ship dates are simply wrong — or that Expansys is receiving units bundled with SD cards in the same box directly from Huawei and has no control over the availability of different versions. But as the sole US retailer for this device at the moment, it would be nice if Expansys would put accurate ship dates on its web site every once in a while.

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The machine has an Intel Core i3-330UM processor and Intel integrated graphics. It has 3GB of DDR3 memory and an 8850mAh battery which is reportedly good for up to 8.2 hours of battery life. The computer has an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display.

There’s no word on pricing or availability outside of Korea.

The company is also launching a 14 inch model with similar specs called the Samsung X430. That model has a larger display, 4GB of memory, and comes with NVIDIA GeForce 310M graphics.

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Folks who have headed to KMart locations hunting for the Augen GenTouch78 tablet may not be having much success yet, but one reader wrote in to let us know that he did find a $99 Android netbook from Augen at his local store. And he’s not the only one. Android Guys has a few photos of the netbook, and Engadget’s Joanna Stern went and plunked down some cash to take one home.

As you’d expect from any $99 laptop, this little guy isn’t exactly a looker… or a performer. The Augen GenBook 74 has a 400MHz CPU, a 7 inch, 800 x 480 pixel display, 128MB of memory, and runs Android 1.6.

Joanna reports that the machine feels very slow, and that while the netbook ships with an Android Market app, it doesn’t seem to actually install any apps. That said, the GenBook 74 does come with a web browser, Gmail app, Google Maps, and a handful of other useful apps, which ain’t bad for $99.

Honestly, this thing looks like every Android mini-laptop I’ve seen at CES over the last two years. I suppose it’s nice to see them actually start showing up in US retail shops. But it’d be even nicer if they were running a newer version of Android, had faster processors, or at least a working version of the Android Market — although you should be able to install Android apps manually if you can track down the APK installer files you’re looking for.

You can find more details at Engadget and you can check out Joanna’s hands-on video after the break.

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In a lot of ways, the EB1501P is the desktop equivalent of the upcoming Asus Eee PC 1215N laptop. The machines have nearly identical specs. The main difference is that the 1215N has a battery, display, and you know, all those other things that make a laptop portable. The Eee Box, on the other hand, has a slot-loading DVD-RW drive, which the laptop does not.

The Asus Eee Box EB1501P has 2GB of DDR3 memory with support for up to 4GB. It’s available with a 250GB or 320GB hard drive. It has 802.11b/g/n WiFi, 6 USB ports, mic and headphone jacks, HDMI, eSATA, and Ethernet ports, and a flash card reader. The nettop runs Windows 7 Home Premium. It will be available in black or white.

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That might seem like a lot of money, since the Apple iPad starts at just $499. But bear in mind, the $499 iPad doesn’t have a 3G modem and it can’t make phone calls. At $549, the unsubsidized Dell Streak is actually pretty typical for an unsubsidized smartphone.

It’s just $20 more than Google was asking for an unsubsidized Nexus One phone (until it was all-but-discontinued). But the Dell Streak is also about $50 less than the price of an unsubsidized iPhone 4.

Dell has been running a pre-sales event for the past week, and customers who sign up through today will get first crack at pre-order the tablet. If you’re part of the pre-order group, you also get a coupon that lets you pick up a Bluetooth headset for $0.99.

There’s still no official word on when the tablet will actually start shipping.

The Dell Streak has a 5 inch, 800 x 480 pixel display, a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, WiFi, Bluetooth, and 3G capabilities, a 5MP camera, and a MicroSD card slot. At launch, the tablet will run a customized version of Google Android 1.6, but Dell promises to make an update available later this year that will allow the Dell Streak to run Android 2.2 Froyo with support for Adobe Flash.

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These touch panels are designed for devices with screens up to 10.1 inches, and they’re pretty clearly aimed at the touchscreen tablet space, although the press release also mentions digital photo frames, home controllers, and touch capable netbooks.

The multitouch screens can handle up to 10 inputs at a time, and feature support for many fo the same gestures you can use on Synaptics touchpads including pinch-to-zoom and chiral rotation.

Synaptics says the displays will work with Windows 7, Google Android, and other Linux-based operating systems. The touch panels shoul dbe available alter this year.

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The folks at ATiForum in Germany have snagged a leaked product roadmap, which shows two new chips with the code name “Zacate.” One will be a single core chip with a total power draw of 18W, while the other will be a dual core chip with a 25W TDP. Both will be able to support DirectX 11 graphics. And both are due out late in the 4th quarter of 2010 — probably just in time for the holidays.

As with any leak, it’s best to take this with a grain of salt until we receive official confirmation from AMD. The roadmap could be a fake, or at the very least subject to change.

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The netbook has a 10.1 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel anti-glare display and an Intel Atom Pine Trail processor. It’s available with either a 1.66GHz Atom N450 or a 1.83GHz Atom N470 chip.You also get 1GB of memory, a 160Gb or 250GB hard drive, 3 USB ports, mic and headphone jacks, Ethernet, and VGA ports and a flash card reader.

The Hannspree Hannsbook SN10 has 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, and a 1.3MP webcam. The computer runs Windows 7 Starter Edition, and it’s available with either a 3 cell, 220mAh battery or a 6 cell, 5200mAh battery. The netbook comes in black or red.

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This shouldn’t come as a huge surprise to anyone. Motorola has plenty of experience working with Google Android. The company’s Droid phone which launched last year is probably one of Android’s biggest success stories to date. And the recently launched Droid X and soon-to-be-launched Droid 2 have been getting a lot of attention as well.

I’d be shocked if a Motorola Android tablet shipped with anything less than a 1GHz CPU. And with a 10 inch display, it’s likely that we’ll see a screen resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels or (hopefully) higher. But at this point I’m just guessing.

It’s also not entirely clear what changes Google will make to the Android operating system between Android 2.2 Froyo and the launch of Gingerbread. We know that Google plans to spruce up the user interface, and there’s a decent chance that we’ll see a new Google music store and a web-based Android Market that lets you push apps directly to your phone from any web browser by then. You know, assuming Google ever gets around to enabling support for the Android Market on tablets that don’t make phone calls.

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In fact, the graphics and CPU components are quite similar to those of the Acer Aspire 521 which I recently reviewed. Both notebooks have 1.7GHz AMD Athlon II Neo single core processors and ATI Radeon HD 4225 graphics. What sets the Dell Inspiron M101z apart is its larger 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, support for up to 4GB of memory, and up to 320GB of hard drive space.

According to Dell UK, the new laptop runs Windows 7 Home Premium and is also available with an AMD Athlon II Neo dual core processor. It has 3 USB ports, and HDMI port, Ethernet, and VGA port as well as mic and headphone jacks. The laptop has 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0, and a 6 cell, 56Whr battery.

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That means that developers can easily write cross-platform apps that are designed to run on any system that supports AIR (including Windows, Linux, Mac, and soon Google Android) and submit them for inclusion in the AppUp Center through Intel or Adobe’s developer programs. Developers can set prices for their apps and track the number of downloads through the AppUp Center tools.

The SDK for Adobe AIR apps is already available, and Intel will start accepting AIR-based apps for inclusion in the AppUp Center on August 14th.

I’m still not 100% sold on the need for an App Store for netbooks. One of the things that sets netbooks apart from more limited devices such as the iPad or an iOS or Android smartphone, is the fact that you can run full desktop versions of Windows, Linux, or other operating systems on a netbook. And that means that most software designed for larger computers will run on netbooks — although you may have to tweak the display settings or deal with a little sluggishness on some newer software meant for more powerful systems.

Still, I suppose the idea of app stores for desktop operating systems isn’t completely foreign. After all, the Linux repository system sort of provides an app-store like experience for users of Ubuntu, Fedora, or other popular Linux-based operating systems.

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That’s compared with most netbooks, which tend to have 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processors, 10.1 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel displays, and 160GB or 250GB hard drives. But the LG X140 still has a less than full sized keyboard, integrated Intel GMA 3150 graphics, and 1GB of RAM. It runs Windows 7 Starter Edition, and has 802.11b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth.

All in all, if you’re looking for a netbook that actually has significantly more power than most, you’re probably better off going with an Acer Aspire One 521 or another mini-laptop with an AMD Nile-based CPU or Intel CULV processor. But if you’re in US, you might not have to worry about that choice anyway, since the LG X140 is expected to launch in Asia and the Middle East, but not in the US or Europe. It will sell for the equivalent of about $500.

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Dell has also posted a detailed product page for the Dell Streak, with a bunch of pretty pictures and detailed specs. As a quick refresher, the Dell Stream features a 5 inch, 800 x 480 pixel display and a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. It supports 3G and WiFi connections, and unlike most Android tablets you can actually make phone calls on the Dell Streak.

If you just can’t wait another week or so to get your hands on a Dell Streak, MyDellMini notes that they’re already starting to show up on eBay. That’s because Dell had provided the tablets to a small group of beta testers recently, and once the beta ended they were free to do what they liked with the devices. Apparently what some people would like to do is sell them.

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If you took one look at the picture above and figured you were looking at a stick of laptop memory, I wouldn’t blame you. The new system from Toradex certainly looks like RAM SODIMM. But it’s actually a fully functional computer with an NVIDIA Tegra graphcis processor and a 1GHz ARM Cortex A9-based dual core processor.

The Toradex Colibri Tegra T20 module measures just 2.7? x 1.4? x 0.2? and has pretty much everything you need to power a tablet, smartbook, or other mobile device — although it could also end up in set top boxes or other devices that could benefit from a low power, HD-capable platform.

The system has 1GB of storage space and 256MB of RAM. The system can pump out 1080p HD video. It supports USB host functionality, camera, audio, and other functions. And the chip uses less than 2 Watts of power.

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There are still no details on the specs or exactly when this fall the tablet will be available. But it looks like HP is dividing its tablets into two camps: consumer oriented WebOS devices and enterprise focused Windows 7 devices.

Palm’s Jon Rubinstein also says HP and Palm are working on other WebOS products including smartphones and… netbooks. This is actually the second time we’ve heard HP/Palm use the big N word in relation to WebOS.This seems to contradict earlier statements that HP wouldn’t bring a WebOS netbook to market. I guess everyone’s entitled to change their mind once in a while.

An earlier version of this article stated that HP would be launching its WebOS slate this fall, but it turns out it’s actually the Windows 7 tablet due out in that time frame.

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This week Google sold the last Nexus One through its web store, and the company doesn’t plan to offer any more (although you can still pick up some through partners overseas). The phone wasn’t a blockbuster success and Google sold only a fraction of the number of Apple iPhone, Motorola Droid, or HTC anything phones typically sell.

Google still said the Nexus One was a success, since it pushed the boundaries of what people should expect from an Android phone. And looking at the current crop of Android smartphones from HTC, Motorola, Samsung, Acerm and other companies it’s hard to disagree. We’re seeing plenty of phones with big screens, 1GHz processors, excellent graphics, and the latest versions of the Android operating system. It’s possible we would have seen them even without the Nexus One, but maybe we wouldn’t have.

But now that the Nexus One experiment is pretty much finished and Google has no plans to sell any more phones through its web store, the folks at OStatic raise a good point: What does this mean for a Google netbook or a Google Tablet running the upcoming Chrome OS operating system?

It’s possible that Google may decide that none of its hardware partners is ready to build a mobile device that live up to the company’s expectations for Chrome OS hardware. And so Google could repeat its experiment. But let’s be honest. Not a lot of people bought the Nexus One from Google. And Google had to confront the fact that it was making software not just for its own device, but for other manufacturers that probably weren’t all that happy with the competition. Why go through that drama again with another product category?

What do you think? Will we ever see a Google tablet or a Google netbook? Or was the relatively small commercial success of the Google Nexus One the nail in the coffin?

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The most recent chips from ARM and TSCM, for example, use a 40nm process.

ARM says the agreement will allow the company to start developing the technology for the new chips as soon as possible — although it could be a while before we see these new chips hit the streets.

ARM’s low power chips power smartphones, embedded systems including set top boxes and a growing number of tablet and smartbook-style computers.

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