Review of the Archos 5 TV Snap-On accessory that let’s you watch and record DVB-T (freeview) signals city-wide and country-wide for most European countries which already have good DVB-T coverage. It comes with a dual diversity antenna system that allows you to get the best reception for a mobile DVB-T receiver, it picks in real-time the best available signal while you walk around or move your device around when at the football match, at work, in school, on the bus, on the train, anywhere especially in densely populated areas which have good DVB-T coverage.
Demonstration of the Google phone at CeBIT 2009 in Hannover Germany, infront of the McLaren Formula 1 car at the vodafone hall. This is probably the best Android phone released by HTC thus far, and will massively be marketed in Europe by vodafone and other telecom providers.
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Linpus makes a Linux OS for netbooks shipped by Acer, Quanta and other companies. They are also showing their QuickOS and talking a bit about their roadmap which includes being available for ARM laptops that are coming out.
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This is a really cool looking thin and light netbook design by Laptop manufacturing giant Quanta that is going to be released by Telecom carriers, probably Vodaphone (I am guessing that because of the colors) and which could also be for other Telecom companies around the world.
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HiVision makes the worlds cheapest Linux laptop at $98 using a new cheaper MIPS based processor (perhaps the Longsoon or the Ingenic), WiFi, 1GB flash storage, it runs Linux, has 3 USB ports, Ethernet, SDHC card reader, audio in and out, voice-chat, skype, multi-tabbed Firefox browser support and Abiword for word processing. Automatic and secure online software updates. Their current model is running a smooth and pretty snappy Linux user interface. In this video, I got to borrow a review sample of the laptop overnight, and I try to show you all the browser and other software interfaces in this extended video review of this cheap MIPS based laptop. Embedded is the way that I hope that most cheap laptops are going to be based on in the near future, Google will hopefully make a great Chrome browser for this kind of Laptop and hopefully that OLPC soon will announce that they will work to improve Embedded Linux based laptops in the upcoming XO-1.5 and XO-2 designs.
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Apvell presents some pretty cool looking Linux KDE implementations on one of the lowest cost MIPS based laptop designs and they are also presenting their upcoming VIA C-7 $260 Laptop design with a 8.9″ screen.
Pandora is an open source Pocket Linux laptop project using the new Texas Instruments ARMv7 Cortex processor as well as the Texas Instruments NEON 3D acceleration and Texas Instruments DaVinci DSP multimedia accelerator. EvilDragon is one of the main people working on this international Linux hacker project. Read more about the Open Pandora project at openpandora.org.
Showing this Intel Atom based Netbook in an HD quality video review, comparing it with the OLPC XO-1, comparing it with a large 14″ notebook, showing how it can playback 720p H264 9mbit/s video recorded using the Sanyo HD1000 using Coreavc codec in Media Player Classic. Talking about ARM based $100 laptops as well.
