E-Lead presents the Noahpad, their own invention for a new kind of laptop with integrated keyboard in mouse in two large pads, and a resolution that is larger than the screen to provide a larger desktop area.

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GeCube are showing their new GeCube Genie PC ARM chip embedded Linux based sub-300€ laptop. And also talking about their plans to integrate a X86 VIA processor in another cheap sub-300€ laptop concept to come soon.

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E-ink technology is awesome and it is about to replace the whole printing industry. The quality of this e-book is the same as printed text on white paper. Just imagine one sheet of paper that can load any of the worlds books digitized by Google Books, from Blogs, from online newspapers, from Wikipedia articles and other articles generated from user generated text content, as well as forum posts and more. There just needs to be some automatic selection of daily content as well as more features which this actual first generation e-ink product is missing like resume from ram and flash, pre-processing pages for faster page loading, currently there is about a second delay for pages to load and a slight delay for the WACOM magnetic touch-screen technology. it’s also based on Linux and there are online communities of third party developpers adding features to it.

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Presenting the MSI PE201, GE202, PE201 Lite and CG201. Those are awesome full HD 1080p Mpeg4, H264, Mpeg2, WMV decoders based on the Sigma Designs EM8622L, the most powerfull HD video decoding DSP on the market. This device also uses a Toshiba TX4939 CPU and runs Linux, this provides some really awesome and unique features to this IP set-top-box. You can download video-on-demand directy onto its hard disk drive using BitTorrent peer-to-peer, or using progressive downloading, which means the video plays in real-time while it downloads into the built-in hard disk drive. This device can also come with a DVD burner which is great to backup the downloaded video-on-demand material if one wants to make some space on the built-in 160GB hard disk drive. For now MSI provides this solution only through Internet Service providers and Content providers. This could be the ultimate sub-300$ does-it-all HD box for the living room.

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H9 is an interesting UMPC with a 7 inch screen. It runs on Linux, comes with 20GB, 800×480 resolution screen, GPS and more. It could cost as little as 430$ according to the representative if you buy 200 pieces.

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This is an awesome product! It is a 146$ Linux computer (Thinix OS) from China that does all the basic things most people need, like browsing (firefox), emailing (thunderbird), instant messaging (gaim), skype, word processing (Red Office), audio/video playback (mplayer), e-learning, all through a very user-friendly very basic interface and is software upgradable. It has got 40GB, a 400mhz/800mhz Godson 2C processor, 256mb ram, 4 usb2 ports, VGA-output, ps2 input, tv-output and weigths something like 400 grams. Their slogan is “Say no to Wintel”.

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This is one of the most awesome things I have seen yet. It’s very much as an Archos PMA430, it is a Linux PDA which has a 30 gb harddrive. These are the improvements this device has over the Archos PMA430 (released in February 2005):
- 480×272 resolution 4″ wide-touch-screen - usb2-host - wifi-G - upnp interface - wmv/wma DRM - video-on-demand interface - Qtopia Linux 2.1 - nearly no buttons around the screen, everything is done touching the screen

This I think is definately potentially more usefull than an Origami, because it fits in a pocket, and is more Multimedia-on-the-go centric and it will probably cost less than 500€ when it will be released by summer, half the price of an Origami. As the Pocket Media Assistant from Archos might not yet have been a very commercially successfull product, it will be interesting if Thomson, with all its marketing power can bring more customers to the Linux PDA platform which is harddrive PDA for multimedia and networking.

Archos does not have a stand at this years CeBIT, so it is not sure how far they are with their research and development compared to Thomson. The more pocket Linux computer projects the better I think.

This Thomson device does have a possible weakeness which is at the same time a possible strength. It might not be possible to install just any Linux Qtopia software onto it without having it approved by Thomson. They want to control, certify and accept any program be installed, the reason they say is to protect the DRM system for their device.

It will probably be compatible with the video-on-demand set-top-boxes that Thomson is providing to internet service providers as 1&1 in Germany that will soon provide VOD to all its customers through such VOD-box with usb-plugs.

I have some suggestions for Thomson if they read this and didn’t consider those features thoroughly enough yet. They should try to include before launch in June: VOIP (TKCphone or other SIP-compatible VOIP software), IM (gaim/jabber), Bluetooth (for 3G/HSDPA/GPRS..), communications module compartment to put any of WiMax, 3G or both when they become available to add as a module later this year in the same device. The device should be able to go in standby mode where it’s always connected to the internet, to turn on and ring as soon as an email, VOIP, IM or RSS feed is incomming. Basically this device should be more communications centric, more like a blackberry or a smartphone, as it’s so close to also be such. Goal is this kind of device should replace also the mobile phone to do all communications efficiently for fun and for business over available data networks. Also, there should be buttons on each side of the screen and a 2D/3D accelerator chip inside for emulating games (don’t be afraid of emulators, you can sell games for cheap with DRM). Then Nintendo and Sony will get some competition from this device. I write more about it here.

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