Big Surprise: The iPad Is Killing The Netbook Craze

Big Surprise: The iPad Is Killing The Netbook Craze

I’m filing this under “not very surprising” — It appears the netbook fad has already peaked, thanks to analytics from Fortune.com. To be precise, it was last summer, when the popular, affordable tiny notebooks had a 641% year-over-year growth rate. But ever since Apple announced its tablet in January, those numbers have been dramatically decreasing. Personally, I think that netbooks will still continue to sell — they do offer things that the iPad doesn’t. But pricing the iPad to start at $500 was a genius move by Apple. It’ll be interesting to see how those netbook sales look a year from now.

CSL G5

CSL is a leading and most established mobile phone service company in Malaysia. CSL phone is mainly utilizing MTK platform to deliver feature-rich mobile phones with exciting experience that enables you to do all the things you want on the phone easily, which includes analog TV features, camera-enabled, loud and clear music player and of course, the dual-SIM feature which allows two lines to be active at the same time.

So looking for a multifunction phone at an affordable price? Well the CSL phone will definitely suit you.

Specification

General

• Network: |GSM Dualband
  
• Announced: |January 2010
  
• Status: |Available
  

Size

• Dimension: |110 x 54 x 14 mm
  
• Weight: |88g
  

Display

• Type: |Full Touch Bar Type
  
• Size: |3.0 inch WQVGA
  

Memory

• Phone Book: |Yes
  
• Call records: |Yes
  
• Card slot: |Yes
  

Data

• OS: |MTK
  
• GPRS: |Yes
  
• HSCSD: |No
  
• EDGE: |No
  
• 3G: |No
  
• WLAN: |No
  
• Bluetooth: |Yes
  
• Infrared Port: |No
  
• USB: |Yes
  

Features

• Messaging: |SMS, MMS
  
• Browser: |WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
  
• Games: |Yes
  
• Color: |Green , Orange
  
• Camera: |Yes
  
• Others:

  • VGame
  • Dual SIM Dual Standby
  • FM Radio
  • Analog TV
  • MP3 / MP4 Player
  • Email
  • Java support
  • MSN
  • CSL Fun Club
  • T-Flash/microSD Card Expansion
  • Multi Languages (English, Chinese, Malay)
  • Islamic Features (Azan, Kiblat, *Al-Quran) *optional
  
  

Battery

• Battery: |950 mAh
  
• Stand-by: |Up to 180 hr (Based on Network)
  
• Talk time: |Up to 3 hr (Based on Network)

iPhone 4G dreamed in the wild

Since the public has come down after speculating on the iPad followed by its announcement, it is time we think remember the next gen iPhone 4G and show you some of the latest mock-ups on it. Not just that they appear in an unprogressive fashion, but that this particular one found accidentally on the Web runs pretty close to what everyone is expecting. It gives suggestions on a front camera, microSD expansion slot which will never be there but no matter, bright and happy color schemes. iPhone 4G already has a rather straight forward “must have” hardware and feature list. But from the design point of view, how could it evolve? Even free-minded sketches show no paths of alternative. Whether it is good or bad for the iPhone is quite a question for the ages, so have your say on future of iPhone's design in comments.

Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus are now official

Good news for Palm’s WebOS fans as today Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus were announced to come out soon. Apart from the fact of the announcement, which would have inevitably happened sooner or later, we want to bring in some details on what makes the difference between Palm smartphone models, and those with Plus in the name. Firstly, AT&T and Verizon are now also in the business. So you can couple services they provide to that. Then there is Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g added to Pixi’s feature list. This, I think, fills the most obvious feature gap between Pixi and other smartphones including Pre as well by the way. What’s about Pre Plus, it now has double the memory (16GB), a bit longer battery life and video capture. Pre Plus and Pixi Plus are priced $149 on AT&T, $179 on Verizon and $49 on both carriers respectively. To get one of these when they come out soon you will have to agree on a two-year plan and mail-in rebate.

Asus Eee Top ET2010AGT - 20-inch touchscreen for 0

Earlier this month we have been looking at a new MSI Wind Top All-in-One lineup. A beautiful piece of engineering and design, but, let’s be honest, pricewise it pushes extremes of what even latest hardware can cost. This though, Asus Eee Top ET2010AGT, which seems to me like a very distant but still a rival for a Core i7 powered 24-inch MSI winds things down a bit. I urge you to leave alone prejudice about Atom processors that all Eee PCs tend to have. It’s AMD Athlon X2 1.6GHz for this one, coupled with ATI Mobility Radeon HD5470 with 512MB dedicated memory, 4GB RAM and 7200rpm 500GB HDD should do well for home entertaining. And you can play with that 20-inch 1400 x 900 multitouch display for equivalent of $850 or drop this feature and pay $800.

Onkyo MX1007A4 netbook has 14.4h battery life

What do you do if you are not among world’s major manufacturers but you have desire and ability to make something competitive on the market? Onkyo has picked up one of the all-time good solutions for its MX1007A4 netbook coming out in Japan next week - made one feature noticeable among all the others. This has 14.4 hours of battery life and no, it doesn’t weight a ton. In fact it’s barely over a kilo – 1.16kg (2.56lbs) to be precise. At this point I’m guessing that battery life this long is achieved not by a huge battery in first place, but by very economic power management. Which means the MX1007A4 does not have too many features to play with. I can’t blame Onkyo’s latest netbook for that. I think it makes perfect sense and featurelessness to it will make it cheap also. Mind you though that MX1007A4 has just enough of everything for everyday life. Check out specs we have scraped up together form Japanese press release.

Onkyo MX1007A4


• Processor: Intel Atom Z515, 1.2GHz


• System memory: 1GB DDR2 SDRAM, 400Hz


• Hard drive:250GB, 5,400rpm


• Display: 10.1-inch, 1,024 x 600


• Battery: Li-Ion, 10.8V, 5,800mAh


• LAN: b/g/n IEEE 802.11


• Bluetooth: v2.1 + EDR


• USB: v2.0 x 2


• Operating system: Windows 7 Starter

HTML5 goes mobile with LG Mini

LG launches its Mini (model number GD880) web orientated mobile phone this April in Europe followed by other regions of the world. LG states no price as it will vary according to every particular region. The most interesting thing yet about the GD880 Mini is its Phantom Browser with HTML5 support. Since web orientation is a key feature of LG Mini, they made it a full touchscreen with 3.2-inch display and no physical keyboard. As the official press release says, they tried to keep things as simple as possible, so they like to call it a mobile phone with smartphone-like features. Design is therefore also simple and is March’s iF product design award holder. The bottom line for LG Mini is: HTML5 web experience for all popular web services and web apps, Wi-Fi, HSDPA, A-GPS, fresh design plus 5 megapixel camera. Probably won’t cost too much.

Panasonic's "professional" micro camera AF100

Panasonic has come up with an idea of a micro small professional camera. However, its Micro Four Thirds sensor can be useful shooting some budget video clip for home cinema. The video quality will be pretty decent for such a small camera thanks to its suite of 4/3 lenses, adapters and filters.

The AF100 is suited up with one of the best video codecs today - AVC - H.264 which is very good for HD format videos, and this digital video camera does record videos in native 1080p resolution at 24fps. The codec has good compression/quality ratio and good speed. The videos shut can be stored on to two SD cards which can be not only SDHC but even the new SDXC. Audio quality won't let you down either with LPCM/Dolby-AC3 at 48 kHz.

As for the connectivity it has USB 2.0, HDMI, HD-SDI out. This camcorder will definitely not be enough for the Hollywood operators but it will perfectly do for some of the best home videos you shoot. Besides, it is shaped like a professional one.

ASUS EeeBox PC EB1007 gets official, gets Intel Atom D410 and USB 3.0

At CeBIT 2010, at the beginning of March, we saw some interesting models flashing at ASUS booth. Many of them were shown as upcoming, so naturally, in a month we got some of those officially announced. ASUS has recently announced its EeeBox PC EB1007 nettop, but things have changed to good since CeBIT. I mean, of course, ASUS’ promise to equip as many products as they can with USB 3.0 ports. So they did it with EeeBox PC EB1007 as well. However, things are not so jolly well with EB1007 nettop.


Before I explain my opinion on the latest EeeBox PC, I want you know its specs first.

ASUS EeeBox PC EB1007 specifications:


• Processor: Intel Atom D410, 1.66GHz, 512KB L2 cache


• Chipset: Intel NM10 (Pine Trail) w/integrated graphics


• System memory: 1GB DDR2, 800MHz


• Hard drive: 2.5-inch 160GB


• LAN: 10/100/1000Mbps


• Wireless: 802.11b/g/n, 2.4GHz


• USB ports: USB 3.0 x 3, USB 2.0 x 3


• Dimensions: 8.78" x 7" x 1" (22.3cm x 17.8cm x 2.7cm)


• Weight: 2.58lbs (1.17kg)


• OS: Windows XP Home


• Case color: black or white

Now, the last bit worries me most. Not that I»m saying something against good old XP. On the ground of its own abilities a nettop with specs like above is a very good machine. Chances are, as long as you don’t start an unbearably heavy application, it will never drop a slightest hint about sluggishness and/or be unstable. But from the end-user’s point of view it would at least be better to have Windows 7 Starter as an option. And why doesn’t it? The part of the reason is Intel’s integrated GPU.

If we look through ASUS’ EeeBox lineup, we see that machines running Windows 7 have their graphics accelerated by NVIDIA ION or other discrete graphics unit. And we know that ASUS is planning to be one of the first to equip their devices with ION 2. This will affect the price while EeeBox PC EB1007 will stay as cheap as possible (the actual price as well as availability is yet unknown). But then ASUS has built it around Pine Trail platform with industrie’s absolute best USB 3.0 SuperSpeed technology. This means that a day will come when ASUS entry-level nettops will run Windows 7.

So, what we have here is probably the last one of the dying breed. If that doesn’t turn you off, ASUS EeeBox PC EB1007 will serve you well, if on the other hand you are looking forward to buy something progressive and future-proof – hold out for ION 2.

Moshi Moshi 01H + iPad. Can you hear me now?

You might have probably seen already one or two mock ups on how Apple has designed iPad by running over iPhone with an asphalt roller meaning that it’s just a giant iPhone so that you could have more apps. The only thing missing is that iPad doesn’t do calls. Apart from VoIP, of course. So, if you want you to make your iPad (or really any other gadget) look more authentic among its handset predecessors you can equip it with a fairly cheap Moshi Moshi 01H – a vintage-styled handset designed for wide variety of devices that has come out today with just $29.99 on the price tag. In stock, Moshi Moshi 01H is supplied with 3.5mm jack. USB and other types of adapters are sold separately. They say it has high quality speaker and microphone, modern, pleasant to use materials, but, well, it just looks good with an iPad. A black one though (also available) would be even better.

Samsung B3410

Also known as Samsung CorbyPlus B3410 and Samsung Delphi B3410

General	Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
Announced	2009, 4Q
Processor
SAR Rating
Color	Available	Black
Size	Dimensions (mm)	102.3 x 52.4 x 15.9
Weight (g)	113.7
Display	Type	TFT touchscreen, 16M colors
Size	240 x 320 pixels, 2.6 inches
Lines	0
Menu	Touchscreen
Design	Type	Slider
Antenna	Fixed Internal
Keys	Navigation	Touchscreen
QWERTY	Yes
Soft
Other	Full QWERTY keyboard
Lighting
Memory	Phonebook	1000
Internal (MB)	30 MB
Expansion	microSD (TransFlash) up to 8GB
Battery	Type	Standard battery, Li-Ion 960 mAh
Stand-by (hrs)	Up to 640 h
TalkTime(min)	Up to 640 min
Ringtones	Polyphonic
Customization	Yes
Audio	Format	MP3/WAV/eAAC+/WMA player
MP3 Player	Yes
Voice
FM Radio	Yes
A2DP	Yes
Video	Format	MP4/H.263/H.264 player
Recorder	Yes, QVGA@13fps
TV	Null
Entertainment	Games
Messaging	SMS	Yes
Total SMS	1000
MMS	Yes
EMS	Yes
Email	Email, Gmail
IM
Push-To-Talk
Connectivity	HSDPA	Null
EDGE	Class 10, 236.8 kbps
Bluetooth	Yes, v2.1 with A2DP
3G	No
GPRS	Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots)
Infrared (IrDA)	No
USB Port	Yes
WIFI/WLAN
Data Cable	Yes
Data Modem
Software	Java (J2ME)	Yes ,MIDP 2.0
WAP	Yes Ver 2.0
Platform OS
Browser	WAP 2.0/xHTML
Predictive Text Entry	T9
Speech Codes
PIM Application	Organizer, Voice memo
Others Application	Google Search, Widgets
Personal	Themes	No Info.
Caller ID	Yes
Profile ID	Yes
Camera	Lens Type	CMOS, 2.0 Megapixel
Digital zoom
Max. Resolution	1600x1200 pixels
Flash	No
Night Mode	No
Multi Shot
Frame	Types
Extra Features
Photo Format	Jpg

CaseCrown Genuine Leather Horizontal Flip iPad Case (Black) for the Apple iPad Wifi / 3G Model 16GB, 32GB, 64GB

Gateway NV59C-H34E and NV59C-H54E notebooks go on sale this Friday

Apr 21, 2010

Gateway will update its NV notebook series this Friday, April, 23. NV lineup will now have two more Intel Core i-powered machines, but both new models (NV59C-H34E and NV59C-H54E) also feature Intel integrated graphics. So to say the least, update has its aim at business public because sans graphics latest NV’s specs don’t say too much about economy.

Gateway NV59C-H54E:


• Processor: Intel Core i5, 2.26GHz (2.53GHz w/Turbo Boost)


• System memory: 4GB DDR3, 1066MHz


• Hard drive: 640GB, 5400rpm


• Display: 15-inch WXGAG, 1366 x 768


• Connectivity: USB 2.0 x 3, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, Gigabit Ethernet, VGA, HDMI


• Weight: 5.7lbs (2.6kg)


• Color scheme: silver


• Operating system: Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit

Gateway NV59C-H34E is only different with its Core i3 (2.13GHz) processor instead of Core i5 and a blue color option. New Gateway NV Series notebooks will appear in stores in Japan in two days for prices varying from $850 to $950

Nexian NX-G381

Specification :
* * Dual GSM 900/1800 MHz
* * Colour LCD
* * MP3 Player
* * FM Radio
* * GPRS
* * Support Chatting Applications
* * Support Facebook & Twitter
* * Handsfree
* * External Memory
* * Multi Language Indonesia English
* * Full 12 months guarantee

Harga :
* Rp 299.000,- (exclude PPN)

* *) Price may change without any notification

Handphone murah sudah bundling dengan salah satu operator lokal.