Firmware Update for Archos 5 Internet Tablet released – Version 1.0.22

Archos has released a firmware update for its Android powered MID. Here is what is new in this release:

• Storage: microsd formatting and ejection is now supported under Android
• Keyboard support: when a physical keyboard is connected, virtual keyboard is deactivated to allow larger edition space
• Suspend: contact with touchscreen surface is no longer preventing suspend
• Archos mediacenter launcher widget: reactivity has been enhanced

Tainell T500 MID

A manufacturer from Shanghai Tainell is set to launch a 5-inch T500 MID in the month of October. The T500 will be available with a wide choice of processors, which include Atom Z510 (1.1GHz), Z520 (1.33GHz) or Z530 (1.6GHz). It has 5-inch display with 1024×600 resolution, 1GB RAM, 32GB SSD storage, GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

It has a 4-cell 2400mAh battery and that should give you up to 6 hours of runtime. It weighs a modest 420gm. With it, you can go for Windows XP, Windows 7 or Moblin Linux OS

Price is not known yet

MSI X410 now on sale in Europe, Already shipping in France and Belgium

Few days back, we mentioned about the MSI X-slim notebook and Wind netbooks based on AMD’s NEO platform and according to fudzilla, amazingly, MSI has begun shipping some of its Neo-based notebooks, right now to particularly to France and Belgium. MSI is still in a mum about their products,which is yet not made public officially.

X410 is a very attracting model, weighing just 1.5kg and it’s under 25mm thick, which makes it the lightest and slimmest of all. It has a 14-inch display and is backed by an Athlon MV-40 at 1.6GHz, has 2GB of memory and 320GB of storage, draft-n wireless and comes installed with Vista Premium.

X410 is listed by some French vendors at as low as €414 although some are shipping at higher price which is slightly above €500. While Belgian e-tailers have also listed the X400, which is based on Intel’s SU3500 CPU. However, the price difference is astonishing. Shockingly, X400 costs €650, while the X410 is listed at just €499.

The battery life of AMD-based X410 with that of X400 is incomparable as the latter offers much better battery life.

MSI to use AMD Neo processor for its X-Slim series

MSI’s AMD-based X-Slim X610 has not hit the market yet, but in Russia, couple of individuals were able to get their hands on it. A news which broke up back in May says that MSI will start using AMD Neo chips in some X-Slim series models in Q3. Sadly, MSI has decided to stick to larger X-Slim models, the 14-inch X410 and the 15.6-inch X600.

The X610 is somewhat like the CULV-based X600. For instance, it shares the same chassis and majority of the specs have remained unchanged, like 4GB of memory, 250GB of storage and Radeon HD 4330 discrete graphics with 512MB of memory.

The X610 has AMD’s Athlon MV-40 at 1.6GHz, its slower than the Intel Core 2 Solo SU3500 that runs at 1.4GHz. We are expecting the price to be cheaper than the €699 Intel version

Linux OS screenshots of Always Innovating TouchBook

Always Innovating has uploaded some screenshots of the custom Linux OS that will be launched with the Touch Book. The Touchbook is an 8.9-inch tablet netbook that has a detachable display.

Click on read more to see its screenshots!

Touch Book by Always Innovating coming soon to a store near you

Always Innovating is soon going to start the manufacturing of its netbook-cum-tablet called Touch Book by next month. The price of this cool looking tablet is going to cost you just $299. Yes, just $299 for a tablet! It comes with an 8.9-inch 1024×600 touchscreen and runs Linux. You get a mere 512MB of memory which is split between RAM and NAND. There is also an 8GB SD card that comes bundled with it.

By no means, you can get XP or any Windows OS running on this baby. Reason? It uses OMAP 3530 processor, which is not x86 compatible. Even then, it is a decent buy for $299

Thinkfree Office suit for netbooks released

Here is yet-another-office-suit for your netbook, this time coming from Thinkfree. Just like Corel Home Office suit, the Thinkfree Office suit also gives you the ability to view and edit Word, Excel and Powerpoint files. It is optimized to run on 1024 x 600, which is the most common resolution in netbooks. It needs just 256MB RAM to run.

To make the overall package attractive, Thinkfree is also giving away free 2GB of online storage to its customers. It is available for Windows, Linux and Mac for a price of just $24.95

ThinkFree Mobile Netbook edition is designed to help you manage and sync all your documents easily. It allows you to upload documents to your netbook and share them with all your PCs, office software and operating systems whenever you need to edit or create. laptop, mobile internet device, netbook or desktop PC.
Office 2.0 and beyond. ThinkFree Mobile Netbook edition is a modern productivity suite that comes with enhanced features. You’ll never go back to using a traditional office suite again.

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Microsoft: We do not want Hybrid Netbooks

According to one recent rumor, Microsoft does not want netbooks with hybrid storage to run Windows XP. Although Microsoft has given any reason why are they enforcing such rules, but the first thing that comes to mind is industry competition. We all know that netbooks with dual storage will have the option to run both Windows XP and other Open-Source OS like Google Android OS.

Fortunately, only one netbook will be affected: MSI Wind U115, which comes with SSD and HDD.

GNB 7-inch Netbook runs Google Android

GNB is showing off a 7-inch screen netbook running Google Android OS. It comes with a small keyboard that is hard to type-on. That is due to the small overall size of the GNB netbook. Even the touchpad is small and has left and right click buttons on the either side of the netbook. Battery life is good for only about 2.5 hours.

Features:-

• 533MHz Freescale ARM processor
• Android OS
• 800 x 480 pixel 7-inch touchscreen
• Non-Glossy display
• 256MB RAM
• 8GB SSD
• 3 USB ports
• 680 grams

No word on pricing yet. This is just a little bigger than the Fujitsu U2010 UMPC, which comes with a tiny 5.6-inch touchscreen and runs Windows Vista

SONY now offering Z550 2GHz processor – sony vaio p

Along with the new color offerings, SONY is also offering the MIGHTY Z550 2GHz processor for the VAIO P. Also, very soon you will be able to customize the VAIO P with the huge 256GB SSD. That is plenty of storage on such a tiny device!

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