Filed under: Laptops
Intel’s Montevina mobile processors will get a significant bump in the 2nd quarter of 2009 with the 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo T9900, and the 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo P8800. A completely separate, slightly more suspect Digitimes rumor tells of a possible Core 2 Quad Q9600 CPU of unknown speed and power. Regardless, we won’t get to bask in their awesomeness for very long, as the switchover to the Calpella platform (and Clarksfield) will follow quickly in the 3rd quarter of 2009. Will the rumor-mill never cease to torture us?
[Via Electronista]
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Filed under: Cellphones
The G1 certainly has a lot going for it, but we were a bit taken aback by its lack of an on-screen keyboard — even a short text requires you to flip the screen out and hit the physical keys. That looks like it might change soon, though — a rough roadmap posted on the new Android source repository has soft keyboard support penciled in for the the first three months of next year. It’s not a lot to go on — the timeline is described as “initial thoughts” and subject to change as the community gets involved — but it’s good to see that El Goog is already thinking about improving the Android user experience. Now, any coders out there want to pitch in and make this happen even sooner?
[Via HTC Source]
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Filed under: Laptops, Portable Audio, Portable Video, Wireless
You don’t see a lot of PMPs or netbooks out there with carrier branding, but both the Archos 5 and the Eee PC have gotten themselves 3G-enabled recently, and French wireless company SFR isn’t wasting any time with the silkscreen machine — it’s just announced subsidized versions of both. The Archos 5 3G+ comes dressed in sharp new black suit and features a smaller 30GB drive to go with its integrated 3G modem and custom SFR menu items — you’re looking at €249 ($320) with a monthly data fee of €19 ($24) for existing SFR customers or €24 ($30) for new subs. More or less the same deal with the Eee 901: you’re getting the familiar 1.6GHz Atom with 1GB of RAM, a 16GB SSD, and an integrated 3G modem for €279 ($358) with €29 ($37) / €34 ($43) monthly contract fees. Hopefully we’ll see some Stateside carriers pick up on this trend soon, eh?
Read – Archos 5 3G+
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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Robots
Husqvarna’s plain old battery-powered Automowers have been available in the US for some time now, but it looks like the company’s
solar-powered hybrid model is now finally making the trip across the pond as well. From the looks of it, the model is the same one we caught sight of back in March, with the 22-pound mower promising to handle lawns up to half an acre in size and not emit a single emission whilst it does its business. As with the regular models, it’ll also return to its base to speed up the charging process when it gets low on juice. Unfortunately, there’s no word on a price or release date just yet, though we wouldn’t expect it to sell for too much less (if any) than the £2,000 (or just over $3,000) it sold for in the UK. Husqvarna will apparently have more to say about that at the Green Industry and Equipment Expo that’s now getting underway in Louisville, Kentucky.
[Via The Raw Feed]
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