Yesterday’s news that the Touch Book was reaching pre-order customers’ hands kicked off an interesting conversation with Always Innovating, who felt that our post was unduly negative about what they themselves have admitted is a “beta” product. Our argument was that it’s not just the work-in-progress software that’s raising eyebrows, but some of the design decisions – the unbalanced top section that’s not countered by the keyboard base, variable build quality – as early owner SteveNYC is reporting over at UMPC Portal.
Steve’s overall impression is that it feels like “a mock up”, with a difficult, unresponsive touchpad, poorly responsive touchscreen, very small keyboard and poor design of what will be frequently-used components such as the plastic, non-spring-loaded clips that hold the slate to the base section. Full story...
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We were only talking earlier on today about Pegatron’s Smartbook plans, and then along comes Shanzai with a quick hands-on report with one of the company’s first models.
With all the tweaks to their full-QWERTY range, it should come as no surprise that RIM have been planning some modifications to their Pearl line-up of compact BlackBerry handsets.
We saw the slick looking Samsung Omnia II when it first tipped up for preorder on Amazon earlier in the fall.
In mid-October Verizon announced that it was adding the HP Mini 110 netbook to its line of subsidized netbooks.
There’s nary a sign of the Motorola MILESTONE (the Euro-spec version of the Motorola DROID we’ve been so enamoured of) in the UK or indeed across the majority of Europe, but German buyers now have a plurality of choice should they want an Android 2.
There are hoards of external hard drives on the market that connect to your computer via USB. This is far form a new product category.
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