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Sinchun’s 8.9-inch UMPC-891A holds onto the past with XP
Written on 15 Sep, 2009 at 19:02 in Handhelds | viewed 22 times | 0 Comments
Sinchun got the price right: 2999 Yuan (about $439 US), and the netbook-style specs make a lot of sense for this form factor. Unfortunately, Windows XP does not. Paired up against a stylus-driven 1024 x 600 touchscreen, Atom processor, 1GB of... (Continue reading)
CrunchPad unboxed, handled on video
Written on 15 Jun, 2009 at 7:49 in Handhelds | viewed 128 times | 0 Comments
We heard earlier this month that the first official CrunchPad units would arrive soon, and it seems like Mike Arrington and company are making progress — here’s what looks to be semi-final hardware and packaging on video for the first... (Continue reading)
AT&T’s iPhone 3G S pre-orders already sold out
Bad news for folks hoping a pre-order would save them from that yearly camp out in front of their local Apple Store: iPhone 3G S pre-orders have sold out, and folks who are making new pre-orders are being told that... (Continue reading)
MMS and tethering functional on some AT&T iPhone 3Gs running 3.0?
AT&T’s been feeding us a story that it’ll offer MMS on the iPhone only “once [it completes] some system upgrades that will ensure our customers have the best experience,” but here’s the thing: it seems that it works right now... (Continue reading)
Font Bureau takes credit for Palm’s custom ‘Prelude’ fonts; our hearts melt
Normally we’re just happy to be able to read a bit of legible text on a mobile device — maybe with a bit of anti-aliasing tossed in — but we really have to hand it to Palm for the truly... (Continue reading)
Homebrew Pre firmware just a button, cable away?
If you were to put the Pre on a scale of hacker friendliness from 1 to 10, where 1 is the iPhone (remember how long it took for the first jailbreaks back in the day?) and 10 is, say, OpenMoko,... (Continue reading)
Is this T-Mobile’s Samsung Bigfoot with Android, AMOLED, and QWERTY?
So this really doesn’t look anything like that Bigfoot we saw a little while ago, but we can sorta see the familial resemblance if we squint really (really, really) hard. According to Boy Genius Report, what we’re looking at here... (Continue reading)
Amazon Kindle DX unboxing and hands-on!
Well, well — what’s this? Amazon’s Kindle DX just arrived a little earlier than we expected, looking every bit like the big brother to the Kindle 2 it did at launch. Seriously — apart from new, less comfortable keyboard, externally... (Continue reading)