Standard Shanzhai Style Robustness Test

In my many years working for the IT industry I have read many reviews of all kind of mobile devices from PDAs to Notebooks including Smart Phones, eReaders and mp3 players. I have seen even unbelievable tests for rugged Tablet PCs but I have never heard about the Standard Shanzhai Style Test.

The robustness test. We had our 70 kilo reviewer (what do we feed these people!), stand on the device. It survived. Apparently this is a standard shanzhai style test, commonly used in markets to demonstrate the build quality.

Netbook that looks like China

The best porcelain in the world comes from China, at least that’s my opinion, no wonder here in the west we call it China. Shanzai.com has spotted a Netbook with an Intel Processor and an unusual display of 11.1 inch 1366 x 769 pixel that has a beautiful China design.

There are more pictures here.

Via Shanzai.com

The term for netbook is not good

According to Microsoft the term netbook is not good. 

Guggenheimer pointed out on June 2 in Taipei during Computex 2009 that since some of the mini-notebooks already feature capabilities more than just purely Internet browsing – which is the main purpose of the netbook – therefore the term netbook should be abandoned.

And I’m fully agree with that, even the term MID which was stamped by Intel initially for devices purely designed just for Internet now is being used to call what was before called UMPC. That’s completely crazy. Why to name them by one of it’s functions when these devices can do more than that? How I would call them? Ultra Small PCs (USPC) perhaps? Small Factor PCs (SFPC)? or just keep calling them UMPC? Probably the best thing to do is to keep using the old term UMPC instead of creating a new one and as result more confusion.

Via:  DigiTimes

HP Mini 2140 Video Review

The HP Mini 2140 is without any doubt one of the best netbooks in the market. Here is a video review that I recommend to watch to anyone in the market for one of those.

Velocity Macro's UMPC and Netbook

 

Velocity Macro has announced the release of two new devices, the Notemagix M10, a Netbook with a 10 inches display and the Notemagix M5, an UMPC with a 4.8 inches touch screen. More details at Geek.com

Android for Netbook

According to this site in 2010 we could be seeing a Netbook running Android and to prove it they have installed it in an Asus Eee.

The fact that various OHA partners have already developed Android enough to easily work on our netbook may be considered evidence enough that Google is getting increasing buy-in from industry players to realize this vision. We found two additional indicators that technology is being developed in this direction.

Sylvania G Netbook Meso

The Sylvania G Netbook Meso is probably the latest Netbook being released in USA.

Lenovo ideapad S10 Netbook - Hands-On

Lenovo releases recently a 10 inches display netbook. A machine that your can fully appreciate in this video.

The use of a latest generation Atom processor at 1.6 GHz should give this machine a really good performance.