Netbook Wednesday: More Things Happening East Than West

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Clik here to view.With CEATEC underway and more Asian companies bringing out netbooks, the action in the netbook segment has gone east for the moment. Sure things are trickling down to the West after the Asian markets have had their fill but if you want to see netbooks that will never see the other side of the GMT, you have to head east.

Having exhausted all possible combinations of Intel Atom and the usual features found in netbooks, the companies are now keen on experimenting with things like in-built 3G, GPS, etc. Take the Nokia Booklet 3G as an example or look at what Kohjinsha is doing. Jump over to the other side for the entire round up.

Kohjinsha Dual Screen Netbook

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Clik here to view.Kohjinsha has something on show at CEATEC that getting them a lot of attention. It is a dual-screen netbook. That means it has two physical screens side by side. Two gorgeous looking screens side by side that is. Now this has already been happening with other companies but when you see something like this in person, you just have to take a look see.

This is an experimental model with no plans for production in the near future. First there has to be a market that has use for a dual-screen netbook. That is something that Harelon might not understand but Khojinsha sure does. So this is just a prototype.

The twin LCD screens can display either 1024×600 or 1366×768. It has 4GB of DDR2 RAM and is running Windows 7 Premium along with other commonly found features like a 2.5” SATA HDD. I don’t know about anyone else but I sure could get used to a wide view of things. [Akihabara News]

Sharp’s (Teeny Tiny) NetWalker

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Clik here to view.Sharp NetWalker is stuck somewhere between being a Netbook and an UMPC. It is a tiny 10inch thing with 512MB RAM, a five-point mulitouch screen and wireless LAN. Thankfully, the battery life is pretty good — rated at 10 hours of juice. It is running a special version of Ubuntu and you can see the common utility apps in pic like Firefox and Thunderbird. There is also a twitter app.

The price is quite high though – $500. Hopefully it will come down as they always do when it reaches places like Amazon and Best Buy. It is only available in Japan right now and there is no news of when it might hit the western markets, specially the US. [cnet news]

Weibu N10A With NVIDIA ION

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NVIDIA’S Ion, as reported last week, is slowly but surely making its way into the market. But so far, there aren’t as many netbooks as there are low-power HTPCs and nettops using the chipset. That’s because Ion consumes more power than the Intel chipset in order to power the graphics chip. Plus companies perhaps do not want the thing to cannibalize their notebook offerings. Because without Ion, you would have to get a notebook in order to get decent graphics and video. Of course, that also means sacrificing the convenience of a netbook.

Still, we have seen one or two netbooks already from mainstream manufacturers. But smaller manufacturers in the Eastern side of the world have shown more eagerness when it comes to making Ion powered netbooks.

So here we have the Weibu N10A 10inch netbook that is running on the Ion chipset. It was unveiled just a few months back and has currently gone up on sale in Japan. It is powered by a single core Atom 230 processor with 2GB RAM and 150GB of storage. There is also an HDMI port. Forget that portable DVD player, put your movies on an external storage and take this with you instead. [Liliputing reports]

Hasee Ultrabook Dreams Of Being The MacBook Air

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May be some day it will, but just not today. This is a 12.5 inch netbook that is china made but is doing its rounds in the European market. Liliputing has spotted the device being sold on the French Amazon website for 380 Euros (about $560).

You are right in thinking that a device this cheap will never be able to match up to the MacBook Air’s performance. It really can’t. The only resemblance it has with Apple’s super-thin beauty is in its looks. Even there it can’t match up to the aluminum body and the actual thinness.

Acer Windows 7 Tablet

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Acer Aspire aficionado macles has ousted a new tablet that is looming over the horizon. This seems to be a part of the Timeline series and looks similar to the 1810T model. It is called the 1820P and according to the blog, it will have the same design as the 1810T except for the swiveling screen that is touch enabled.

It will hence be running on a single low-voltage Intel processor that and will be an 11inch device with a resolution of 1366×768. The touchscreen will be multitouch.

Alpha 680 Android Netbook

Google is currently working on the Chrome OS and that is what they want to see in netbooks. But Android is already such a nice and robust platform that netbooks makers can hardly resist experimenting with it.

Meet the Skytone Aplha 680. It is a tiny little device that is powered by an ARM 1153MHz processor, 128MB Ram and has 1Gb flash storage. Actually, its more UMPC than netbook and with kind of specifications it’s no wonder that it’s running a mobile OS like Android instead of anything else. [Netbook Choice reports]

Dell Inspiron Mini Nickelodeon Edition

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The netbook market is getting saturated and people are going to buy less and less of it as time goes on. So companies like Dell and Acer are looking at changing the age group a bit to find a new target audience – the kids.

Which is why you have the gooey slim themed décor on a Dell Insipiron Mini. I don’t think there’s much more to say here. Just look at the photo.

Nokia Booklet 3G Best Buy Price Leaked

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Now that we know that Best Buy has the exclusive on the Nokia Booklet 3G, here’s one leak that is not making much sense right now. Phone Area has spotted a pricing that says $600 for the Booklet 3G. Even though that is lower than $800, it is still too high for a low-powered netbook device even if it has special features like GPS and inbuilt 3G modem. But since Best Buy is known to have these anomalies we are hoping for it to go down upon availability.

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