New “Butterfly” HP Vivinee Tam unveiled – looks much better than the previous one!

HP has finally unveiled their updated Vivienne Tam netbook. This time, they are inspired by the butterflies. Why butterflies? According to HP, it dignifies “freedom and love”. We do not know from they get such weird thoughts, but the new one surely looks much better than the last one which was retina-burning (see our last post about it).

“The new digital clutch design embodies the inspiration for my entire spring collection,” said Tam. “When women around the globe carry HP’s digital clutch and wear my clothes, I want them to feel independent and free, like butterflies.” ‘StyleCaster’ virtual experience

You will have to wait for long to get it: Spring 2010.

Note: It is basically a Mini 110 in a pretty casing

Virgin Media launches “Freedom Netbook”

A lot of cellphone providers have started offering “connected” netbooks with build-in 3G or mobile broadband these days. Now, the Virgin Media is now offering “Freedom Netbook”, which is basically just like many other netbooks that you are familiar with. It comes with an Atom N270 processor, 1GB RAM, Windows XP OS, 120GB (not 160GB) hard disk.

Unfortunately, the “Freedom Netbook” comes with a 3-cell battery which should just last you around 2-2.5 hours with active use. Weighing at just 1.1kg, it comes in 2 colors: “Virgin red” or black and is bundled with “Virgin Media” wallpaper and screensaver.

The Virgin Media’s netboook is available for free on a 2 year contract. On a side note, they have also slashed the price of their 50MBps data plan to 38 pounds from 50 pounds.

ASUS: After linux on netbooks, now linux on Mobile Phones too?

Linux adoption rate has suddenly increased thanks to netbooks vendors who went for linux in order to reduce the overall costs. Windows Mobile, which is a popular mobile OS, costs money and thereby increases the overall cost of the device. Linux, on the other hand is free of cost and is open-source, which gives the OEMs much more freedom over what they can do with the OS.

Right now, it is not known when will the first linux based smartphone from ASUS will come out, but we are already so excitied about it.