Archive for March, 2007

Navisis has showcased at recent CeBIT 2007 show its LaptopTablet product, which provides use of a standard laptop without touch-screen as a pen-input enabled tablet PC.

LaptopTablet attaches itself to notebook computer’s screen panel and to USB port, and receives ultrasonic and infrared signals from the digital pen. This technology allows convenient handwriting, drawing, making signatures or diagrams, according to Navisis.

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On The Go Solutions has published a video of the HTC X7500 Advantage unboxing. This notebook computer-like mobile office device with Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Phone Edition preinstalled is named Dopod U1000 for the European / Australian market.

The 5-inch touch screen HTC X7500 Advantage is powered by Intel Bulverde 624 MHz processor and ATI Graphic Chip W2284 and features 256MB ROM and 128MB SDRAM memory, as same as 8GB hard drive. Dopod U1000 should have the exact same specifications as the HTC X7500. This mobile device, priced at $1,499, has a variety of networking features and comes with a lot of accessories, including a keyboard which connects to main unit via magnet.

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The T3 web site published today the images of “a million dollars” notebook computer made by London-based Luvaglio. The luxury laptop’s chassis is inlaid with real diamonds and various precious metals and it comes in a case that appears to be made of marble, according to the report.

There are no detailed specifications of this notebook published.

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Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology announced development of new 10.4-inch and 10.6-inch display panels for notebook computers, each incorporating an LED (light emitting diode) backlighting system, enabling low-profile, lightweight, and low-power consumption features.

“Compared with a conventional cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) backlighting system, the LED backlighting has distinct advantages such as reduced thickness, reduced weight, increased brightness, and decreased power consumption. In addition, it is Mercury-Free and RoHS- Compatible. It also features lower operating voltages, which provides another advantage in design and safety aspects. Moreover, an LED backlighting system contributes to increased durability against impacts and vibration,” the display maker says.

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Along with its semi-rugged ultra-mobile PC, TabletKiosk has announced the semi-rugged tablet PC called Sahara TufTab i310XT. It features protection from rain, dust, humidity, extreme temperatures, as well as from drop, shock and vibration.

Sahara TufTab i310XT has a 12.8-inch wide-angle touch-screen, Intel Celeron M ULV processor at 1GHz, 512 MB of main memory, 60GB of hard drive storage, 802.11 b/g wireless and Ethernet LAN, Bluetooth and a PCMCIA Type II PC Card slot. It features three USB ports, VGA out with dual screen support, SD-IO/MMC slot, and a fingerprint reader. The announced Tablet PC weighs 3.5 lbs.

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TabletKiosk has announced the eo TufTab v7112XT, its first rugged ultra-mobile PC (UMPC). Designed for field work, warehousing, mobile point of sale, data collection and other jobs, the TabletKiosk eo TufTab v7112XT is a semi-rugged mobile computer with 7-inch sunlight viewable touch screen, 1.2GHz VIA C7-M ULV processor, 1GB of DDR2 memory and a 40 GB hard drive storage.

The v7112XT is based on VIA VX700 chipset with integrated S3G VIA UniChrome Pro II IGP graphics. Along with 802.11 b/g wireless, Ethernet LAN and Bluetooth, it has an 1.0 Mega Pixel CMOS Camera, an USB port, a VGA output with dual screen support, a docking station connector, a SD-IO/MMC slot and a fingerprint reader.

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MSI has recently announced its new 12-inch widescreen S262 YA edition ultra-portable laptops, available in three different chassis colors.

“Moving away from the cold and impersonal notebooks designs and colors commonly found today, the S262 YA edition will provide an invigorating and fresh way to compute. Coming in a number of lively and vivid colors (Aegean Sea Blue, Fresh Grass Green, and Marguerite Rose Pink); users will stand out from the crowd and express their own individual flair,” the press release says.

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Gigabyte has announced its U60 ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) at ongoing CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany.

Gigabyte U60 UMPC has 6.5-inch screen and sliding QWERTY keyboard and is powered by the VIA C7-M processor. According to PMP Today, The U60 features USB ports, a VGA port, Card reader, a built-in Web camera and Microphone. It supports up to 80GB 1.8-inch hard drive. The Gigabyte U60 weighs around 1.6 pounds and its battery life should be around 4 hours.

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Asustek has added high-definition multimedia features to its Asus W2Pb entertainment laptop computer series. The W2Pb now incorporates HD DVD reader and a 17-inch WUXGA+ screen with higher 1920×1200 resolution.

Regarding other multimedia features, there are HDMI output, DVB-T tuner, a TV tuner and SPDIF, as well as speakers system with built-in subwoofer.

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Motorola Inc. today announced the new ML910 Rugged Notebook and MW810 Mobile Workstation, the “fully-rugged, wireless-enabled mobile computers that give government, public safety and enterprise mobile workers quick and secure access to vital information”.

Motorola ML910 Rugged Notebook

Motorola ML910 Rugged Notebook is built and tested to the MIL-STD-810F United States Department of Defense standard. It incorporates a 13.3-inch widescreen display, an Intel Core Duo 1.66Ghz processor and an AMD ATI Radeon X1400 dedicated graphics card with 128MB of video memory. The ML910 also has a video capture card for high performance graphics and real-time video processing. The notebook computer includes as a standard feature a hard drive heater for startup and operation in freezing temperatures and also has diagnostic software that monitors internal conditions and prevents outages due to extreme heat and cold, according to Motorola. There is also a fingerprint reader.

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Fujitsu Computer Systems today announced that its LifeBook P1610 and LifeBook B6210 ultra-portable pen-enabled notebooks will offer an option for a solid-state drive (SSD), the NAND flash-based replacement for traditional hard disk drives.

“The 2.2-pound LifeBook P1610 convertible touch screen notebook and 3.2-pound LifeBook B6210 touch screen notebook are now offered with two flash-based SSD configurations, 16 GB or 32 GB. SSDs offer lower power consumption, added ruggedness, high reliability, and improved performance,” Fujitsu says.

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Taiwanese laptop PC maker Clevo has showcased at ongoing CeBIT show its 17-inch widescreen gaming notebook M570RU, which will feature the next generation Intel Santa Rosa platform and the forthcoming DirectX 10-ready NVIDIA GeForce Go 8800 graphics card.

The Intel PM965 chipset-based Clevo M570RU will support up to 4GB of DDR2 667MHz memory and will have Core 2 Duo processor and Intel’s 4965AGN wireless module providing draft 802.11n standard. There are also built-in stereo speakers and a sub-woofer, as well as TPM security, fingerprint reader and built-in web camera, NotebookReview reports.

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Samsung has announced the Q1 Ultra ultra-mobile PC, the successor to its Q1 UPMC, at CeBIT show. The Q1 Ultra features 7-inch screen with higher 1024×600 screen resolution, a physical keyboard in form of a split thumb pad, the improved battery life of 3.5 hours and Windows Vista operating system.

According to the reports, Samsung Q1 Ultra uses a new Intel’s low-voltage platform codenamed McCaslin and single core Steeley processor with relatively slow clock speed of 800MHz.

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Asustek showcases at CeBIT in Hannover - Germany its new ultra-mobile PC, the Asus T83 UMPC, which features 7-inch 800 x 480 touch-screen display, a 1GHz Via C7-M processor, 512MB of main memory expandable to 2GB, and an upgradeable 30GB hard drive. The T83, unlike its precursor Asus R2H, has a QWERTY keyboard and six hours of battery life, compared to R2H’s 2 hours, Engadget reports.

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Samsung Q45 and Samsung R70, the company’s notebooks scheduled for release during the first half of the year, will feature the currently unknown external nVIDIA GeForce GO 8000M series graphics card.

According to Samsung’s CeBIT 2007 web pages, the ultra-portable 12.1-inch widescreen Q45 and 15.4-inch widescreen R70 incorporate HDMI output for playback of high definition multimedia content. There is no other information about nVIDIA’s forthcoming GeForce GO 8000M external video card. Earlier reports say the GeForce 8000 series graphics for notebooks will be DirectX 10 compatible, as same as its desktop counterpart. There is currently only one announced external video solution for laptops - the Asus XG Station, which connects to notebook via ExpressCard slot.

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