Toshiba churns out a Windows CE-based MID – JournE Touch Multimedia Tablet

Toshiba has introduced JournE Touch Multimedia Tablet. It is 7-inch touchscreen device that runs Windows CE and has supports for wide array of formats including H.264, WMV and DivX.

It has expandable memory (SD card slot) and has the ability to output sub-1080p videos via its HDMI port that is there in its dock. It will retail for 250 Euros at the end of this year. The touchscreen uses resistive touch technology and comes bundled with a stylus too. It also has WiFi b/g and has IE for your Internet Pleasure.

Now, for the sake of clarity, this is not a Windows Mobile device. Windows Mobile devices use Windows Mobile OS which is based on Windows CE. Many other companies use (heavily) modified versions of Windows CE to adapt the OS as required.

Sony Ericsson to enter into Smartbook market

Interestingly, another company is entering in the smartbook market and it is THE Sony Ericsson. Sony Ericsson, after having a not-so-great journey with their Windows Mobile smartphones (Sony Ericsson Xperia X1) have now started to concentrate towards smartbooks. According to the information given by a reliable Taiwanese source, the company is now working on a smartbook that will be released at the end of this year. No details about the specs have been made clear, what kind of specs it will have, but we suspect it to be a non-x86 device and will use ARM processors to run some mobile OS, possibly Android.

It will receive some quite healthy competitions as netbooks from other manufactures will be coming in galore too around that time period.

ASUS also to offer Android based netbooks at the end of 2009!

Year 2010 is surely going to be very exciting as we are going to see a slew of netbooks based on Android (mobile) OS. At first, we heard rumors that ASUS won’t be able to get their Android Netbooks out this year. But it is pretty much confirmed that they will be launching an Android-based netbook at the end of this year.

ASUS will be producing an Android netbook which won’t have an Intel chip. Instead, it will come with a Snapdragon processor whose clock speed is mere 1 GHz. This new chip will include a all-band 3G radio. It will support 720p video too! Of course, it comes with WiFi and built-in GPS.

Android Netbook by Skytone

Yesterday, we posted about the ibuddie netbook which would be powered by Android OS. Now, Skytone is also going to release its Android powered netbook.

It will come with following specifications:

• 533MHz ARM processor
• 7-inch touchscreen
• 800 x 480 resolution
• 128MB of RAM
• 1GB of storage
• SD card slot
• 3G (optional)

The netbook may seem pretty underpowered when compared to the netbooks powered by Atom processor, but we must not forget that we are talking about a netbook that runs mobile OS. Android OS is certainly not ‘that’ tasking on the CPU and hence, does not a lot of horsepower to run.

It is nice to the option to get one with 3G built-in though.