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Nov

8

2011

Asus Delays Transformer Prime to December, ICS on Board

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by Stacy Bruce
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For all of you Asus Transformer fans we have some good and bad news for you. The November 9th launch date for the Transformer Prime has been pushed back to sometime in December. Yes, this is a bummer dudes. I too was looking forward to some NVIDIA quad-core tablet goodness sometime this month. But, on the [...]

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Oct

4

2011

NEC unveils 7-inch 9.9mm thick Android netbook prototype

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by Robert Nazarian
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NEC unveiled a super thin Android netbook, dubbed the MGX. It has a 7-inch (1024 x600) screen, is 9.9mm thick and weighs 350 grams. It will also include Wi-Fi and HSUPA-based 3G. The MGX netbook hinges allow for a 360 degree opening so expect the screen to have touchscreen abilities. They are promising 10 hours [...]

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Mar

16

2011

Intel looks to push into Android tablet PC market.

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by Robert Nazarian
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According to DigiTImes, Intel is working with 6 to 8 notebook manufacturers to push into the Android tablet PC market. Among them are 2 Taiwanese companies, Inventec and Compal Electronics. It is expected that they will show some of the new devices at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Beijing next Month. If R&D does [...]

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Jan

21

2011

Acer, Are You Phasing Out Netbooks Or Not? Apparently Not.

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by Michael Murphy
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Apparently the last 24 hours have led to some uncertainty at Acer regarding the intention of their tablets. It was widely reported yesterday that Acer was aligning their tablets to phase out their very popular netbook line. Presumably, the Taiwan sales manager yesterday stated that they “…are aimed at phasing out netbooks… That’s the direction [...]

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Nov

7

2010

Acer D255 Netbook Seen Running Android OS!

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by Jesse Bauer
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The PC market is in trouble with the onslaught on tablets gaining popularity. How do you battle smartphones and tablets in sales? You install a mobile OS on a PC, in particular, if you’ want to make a good run at increasing your PC sales, you install the most popular mobile OS available…Android. Here you [...]

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Oct

9

2010

Acer planning to dual-boot all of their dual-core netbooks with Android

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by Tyler Cunningham
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We’re not exactly sure why, but Acer has announced their plans to begin dual-booting all of their dual-core netbooks with Windows 7 and Android. Acer’s argument is that the addition of Android doesn’t hurt anything, but I’m not exactly sure how adding Android as a secondary OS on a Windows 7 netbook helps anything either. [...]

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Jul

28

2010

Acer to release Dual-OS netbook with Android and XP

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by Dustin Karnes
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According to a very, very short (did I mention how short it is?) article at digitimes, Acer is expected to be releasing a netbook that runs two Operating Systems – Android and Windows XP. The Aspire One AOD 255 would retail for $370 US, and will be shown at the 2010 Taipei Computer Applications Show [...]

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Jun

21

2010

Toshiba’s new AC100 Android netbook

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by Chris Moor
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This funky looking laptop is Toshiba’s latest device to feature Android 2.1; also known as Éclair. It’s a tiny (border-lining netbook size here) laptop with a 10.1″ LED screen with a resolution of 1024×600 and has a 1Ghz Nvidia Tegra 250 mobile  processor under the hood. To add to the performance; Toshiba have added 512mb of DDR2 [...]

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