Review: HTC Flyer

HTC is a success story when it comes to innovative, beautifully designed and intuitive smart phones. Some of its notable offerings are the HTC HD2 with a 4.3 inch form factor. The next one is the EVO 4G that put the 720p video recording into the map and the HTC Legend that has an innovative [...]

Ramos W10 budget gaming tablet

Ramos W10 is a 7 inch budget gaming tablet that runs on Android 2.2. It was showcased at Computex 2011 last month. The resolution of this touch screen is 800 x 480 and Mali-400 GPU which supports OpenGL ES 2.0. This GPU allows Ramox W10 to handle graphics well. The processor is ARM Cortex A9, [...]

HTC Flyer 7 inch Tablet is out

HTC Flyer Tablet has been widely available in Europe, but now finally it arrives in US. Best Buy will have it on its shelves on time for Sunday opening. If you can’t wait or would like to have it shipped to your door go ahead and pre-order it here. Stylus will not be included in [...]

7 inch Blackberry Playbook in ad

A 30 seconder TV ad was released by Research in Motion revealing the Blackberry Playbook. The good thing about this ad is that it really shows the great side of the tablet especially the multitasking capabilities. In the ad, you will see the app switching support which is one of its greatest strengths. The high [...]

Lenovo is brewing up a new 7 inch tablet

By the latter part of the year, Lenovo is set to be releasing a 7 inch Android tablet that will be using Android 3.0 and an ARM based processor. The display will be 1280×800 pixels. According to news, the tablet will have similar specs to Motorola Xoom, Iconia Tab A500 and the Eee Pad Transformer. [...]

8.9 inch tablet in the works at Samsung

Samsung is trying to fill in the hole of its tablet offerings by creating an 8.9 inch Android tablet and is said to be released at the first half of 2011. this will be released in major mobile operators and so that means 3G and 4G is on the way. Right now it is still [...]

ASUS to lower down the prices of its 7-inch and 8.9-inch netbooks to clear stock

ASUS is now focusing on clearing the stock of its 7-inch and 8.9-inch netbooks by reducing their price. At many places, the EEE 701 (7-inch) is being sold at $150 and 8.9-inch EEE (EEE 901 and EEE 900) at $200.

It is not surprising to see that all the manufactures have shifted their whole focus to the 10-inch+ netbooks. The reason is simple: bigger displays means bigger chassis, which lets them to fit in a bigger keyboard.

Price of 8.9-inch and 7-inch SSD models going to drop – Sadly, not for a good reason

Various netbook vendors including the two netbook giants, Asus and Acer are dropping the prices of their SSD-equipped netbooks. Hold your horses though as the reason behind the price is not good. They are reducing the price in order to clear the inventory.
Remember that it is not even two years when the first netbook was launched. The original concept of the netbook was to be a cheap, rugged and easy-to-carry around device. Unfortunately, to keep the prices down, the netbook vendors used the SSDs with low storage space. This turned a lot of people off. The future of netbooks clearly showed HDD-equipped netbooks which would allow the users to cram a lot of data. This marked the downfall of SSD netbooks.
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