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Lenovo's Snapdragon smartbook gets Android, pictured properly (Updated) {Engadget}
Nov 26th 2009 9:02AM Make it a 10" screen, with a convertible tablet/swivel screen format, and I'll be interested.
AT&T's new DataConnect Pass plans serve up data a la carte {Engadget}
Nov 23rd 2009 3:37PM $15 for ONE DAY of 75MB?
Holy crap, talk about highway robbery.
Camangi's WebStation tablet ships soon, sports Android, loves early birds (video) {Engadget}
Nov 23rd 2009 1:07PM If it had a 9" or 10" screen with 1024x600 resolution, mini-DVI-I out, and two USB host ports, I'd probably be more interested. Though, there's a few more things I'd want in order to be fully hooked (better CPU, more RAM/storage, etc.). But, by far, the main "sore spot" (for me) for these Android MIDs is: their screens aren't big enough. I really don't want/care-about a 5"-7" device. I want/care-about a 9" or 10" Android tablet.
(though, a quick survey of other reviews suggests it does have one USB port ... which might be ok, but their own site doesn't appear to offer any specs to confirm it)
Sergey Brin: Android and Chrome OS 'will likely converge over time' {Engadget}
Nov 23rd 2009 10:43AM Hopefully this will get us:
1) Support for netbook device features in Android (higher resolution displays, USB devices, external displays, etc.)
2) Fast booting/splashtop type functionality in Android (hopefully adding in the ability to have Android/Chrome hand off to another OS, like most splashtop OSes can do)
3) At least one full desktop type browser for Android (Chrome; though I'd also like to see Firefox and Fennec for Android -- I think Acer is working on Firefox for Android on their Android netbook)
4) Dalvik for Chrome OS (for running local Android Apps on Chrome OS)
5) Screen Rotation, accelerometer based auto-rotation, and (multi-?)touch screen support in Chrome OS (for convertible tablet netbooks, and slate tablets)
6) Hopefully, variant Chrome OS distributions (like what Cyanogen does for Android)
Only, at some point, hopefully there wont be a need to call it "in/for Android" or "in/for Chrome OS". It'll be one OS that has optimized distributions for phones, pocketable tablets, pocketable netbooks/smartbooks, mid-range tablets, mid-range netbooks/smartbooks, and maybe also: large tablets (such as the modbook), laptops, nettops, all-in-ones, desktops, and set top boxes.
I'd personally love to have a 10" tablet (with KVM ports, at least) that boots into a splashtop OS based on a merged Android/ChromeOS, and can then hand-off to Ubuntu and/or OS X (assuming Apple ever comes out with their 10" tablet; otherwise, just Ubuntu) if I need to do something more intensive. Couch Computer, Commute Computer, Meeting Computer, Vacation Computer.
How would you change Motorola's CLIQ? {Engadget}
Nov 21st 2009 4:22AM oh, and, move the dpad to the face
How would you change Motorola's CLIQ? {Engadget}
Nov 21st 2009 4:21AM 1) 5 row keyboard (like a G1)
2) .75-1GB RAM (like an N900)
3) 16 or 32 GB storage (like an N900)
4) 4.1" 800x480 screen (like an N810)
5) in addition to USB client for charge/sync, a USB host/otg port
6) micro-DVI-I port
7) more battery
8) wifi tethering app (on non-rooted phones)
Archos 9 pre-orders reportedly delayed until December, retail release pushed to 2010 {Engadget}
Nov 20th 2009 1:32AM Wish this one had their version of Android on it, just like the 5" one.
Apple tablet(s) in 2H 2010 with OLED screen and tailored content in tow? {Engadget}
Nov 19th 2009 4:10PM Blah blah blah.
At this rate, I'll be getting an Entourage eDGe ($500, 10" dual-pane tablet) before a useful Apple Tablet comes out.
Heck, at this rate, I'll be able to upgrade to the MOTO AMP 10 (due in 2011) before an Apple Tablet comes out. (for those who decide to look that up, Moto != Motorola)
OLED? LCD? blah. Give me a PixelQi hybrid LCD/e-paper display.
Google announcing Chrome OS launch plans this Thursday {Engadget}
Nov 17th 2009 11:56PM
I'm more interested in seeing what the final feature list will be. I think a web-only platform will fail. Or even web-only + google gears. I think it's going to need some form of local application layer (in the same way that Android has Dalvik apps). It would make the most sense if Chrome OS also runs Dalvik apps, and Java apps (both Java applets and Java applications), but Dalvik makes the most sense. I'd also think it will need support for local media playing (because sometimes you'll want to play media on it if you're, say, on an airplane and can't access the web).
I think if ChromeOS's features include:
1) Fast Boot (like a splashtop),
2) can hand off to other OSes (also like a splashtop, but not limited to Windows as the "other OS" ... specifically, I may want to have it hand off to Ubuntu and/or Android, depending on other device specifics),
3) can properly handle touch screens, multi-touch, and screen rotation (for both tablets and convertible-tablets) (Ubuntu fails at proper screen rotation with a touch screen),
4) can handle hybrid display devices (like the PixelQi hybrid e-paper/LCD screens),
5) has e-reader software (like the ereader.com software released for Android today, and hopefully Kindle software),
7) has media software (local music files, local video, local pictures, as well as support for remote streaming apps, like Rhapsody, Pandora, and such ... though, the remote streaming stuff can probably be done through Flash),
6) can run local Dalvik, Java, and/or Python applications,
7) has some planned tablet and/or convertible-tablet netbook devices in the line-up, and
8) possibly has both x86 and ARM support,
then I'll probably be rather interested. But for each of those things that isn't present, I'll be progressively less interested.
Stantum's unlimited multitouch meets Mini 10 in a fight to the death (update: now with WiFi, Bluetooth) {Engadget}
Nov 17th 2009 2:29AM
Put the wifi back in, put a pixelqi display on it, and put Android on it (and/or Ubuntu, if they work out the screen rotation issue -- ideally, make Android into a fast boot splashtop for it, that can hand off to Ubuntu), and I'll buy it.
