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Eee PC 1201N: Fastest netbook yet? 
Good news, portable computing fans -- Asus has just announced the Eee PC 1201N multimedia netbook, which packs a twin-core Intel processor and dedicated Nvidia Ion graphics. In other words, it's one of the first netbooks to offer decent processing power and the potential for complex 3D graphics.
Whereas many of its rivals resort to either an Intel N270 or N280 CPU, the 1201N uses an Intel Atom 330, which has two cores, each running at 1.6GHz. If this sounds familiar, that's because it's the same dual-core chip used in Asus' Eee Box 1501 mini PC. Continue reading...
Google demos Chrome OS: Out late 2010
Netbooks running Google's own operating system -- Chrome OS -- rather than Windows, yesterday took a giant step forward as the company released the underlying source code to the developer community.
At a conference in the US, Sundar Pichai, Google's vice president of product management, announced the lightweight operating system is about a year away from release. He also promised it would ship pre-installed on Chrome OS-optimised netbooks, rather than be provided as a free download for anyone to install on any computer. Continue reading...
Cmotech Mangrove: Gigantic Windows Mobile phone will make your head look tiny
Smartbooks -- uber-phones and anorexic netbooks packing the speedy 1GHz, low-power Snapdragon processor -- are finally starting to get as freaky as we hoped they would.
Our favourite is the Cmotech Mangrove giganto-phone. Is the enormous HTC HD2 just too small for your smart phone needs? The Mangrove makes the HD2 look like an HTC Touch. That's an HD2 on the right in the photo above, looking teeny despite its 109mm (4.3-inch) screen.
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USBulous, darling! The most fashionable USB sticks from CNET Towers
The life of a technology journalist is an endless whirlwind of cocktail receptions, champagne launches and debauched parties, as manufacturers and PR types try to butter us up for their latest products. It never works, of course: we're as neutral as a beige pashmina. But we still wake up the next morning bleary-eyed and hurty-headed, our pockets full of half-chewed canapés, mystery ladygirls' phone numbers and odd little bits of plastic: the ubiquitous press release on a USB stick. It's high time we celebrated these mini-megabyte marvels, so we called in CNET UK's Fashion and Stylish Storage Editor, Gok Wanhundredandtwentyeightmeg... Continue reading...
Firefox Mobile on Nokia N900 hands-on photos: Fire in your trousers
We're still clinging to the name Fennec -- it's a smashing big-eared fox, after all. But even with its new, boring name, Firefox Mobile, we still found much to love in the mobile browser from Mozilla. In our recent test of mobile Web browsers, it was the fastest and most innovative one we used.
But we had to test the alpha Windows Mobile version on a frankly mediocre Toshiba TG01. The boys from Mozilla took pity and lent us a shiny new Nokia N900 Maemo phone to show off the upcoming release version in all its glory. Continue reading...
Sonos ZonePlayer S5: Hands-on photos
As one of the highest-rated series of products on CNET UK, it always gives us a thousand happy smiles to look at new Sonos kit. The ZonePlayer S5 is an entirely new form-factor for Sonos -- more of a boombox than a stand-alone streamer -- so we entered this one with curiosity piqued.
Essentially, the S5 is a Sonos ZonePlayer with built-in speakers. With software installed on your Mac or PC, the S5 will stream your entire music library over Wi-Fi or Ethernet, and blast it out using its integrated amplifier. Well, five actually: one for each of the five speaker drivers. There's a single subwoofer, two mid-range drivers and two little tweeters. Continue reading...
litl Easel: Bends over backwards for you
It's been a while since we saw a new netbook (approximately a day and a half, to be precise) so we'd started to worry that the tiny laptop gods had forsaken us. Petrified, we did a little rain dance before our netbook shrine and the diddytop deities blessed us with the litl Easel.
This device looks like no other netbook we've seen before. Its name comes from the fact its 12.1-inch, 1,280x800-pixel display can be flipped almost 180 degrees into what its makers refer to as Easel mode. This means it can be used to display photos and movies without the device taking up too much space. Continue reading...
Dell Inspiron Zino HD: Blu-ray media centre for £600
A Blu-ray-playing Windows 7 media centre with a terabyte of storage and a dedicated graphics processor for £600? Not too shabby, huh? Such a system is Dell's new Inspiron Zino HD set-top PC, and it's worth more than one of your glances.
Basically, it's one of those doesn't-have-a-monitor setups, like the Asus Eee Box or the equally Blu-ray packing ViewSonic VOT550 we saw a couple of months back. The idea is you'll hook it up to an HDTV via HDMI and use a little wireless keyboard and mouse to access all your content. Continue reading...
Earthworm Jim burrows into iPhone: Playtest
In 1995, games developer Shiny released a game in which you took on the role of an invertebrate. His name was Jim, he was an earthworm, and his debut into the gaming world won him a red carpet of critical acclaim.
His original Sega Mega Drive adventure -- aptly titled Earthworm Jim -- is now available as a download for iPhone and iPod touch for £2.99. Graphically it's identical to the original game. And it should be: these re-released classic titles on the iPhone are typically just the original game ROM files inside a software emulator. Continue reading...
Ford Focus RS road test: Green, mean, driving machine
How many Essex girls does it take to install bi-xenon headlights on a 2009 Ford Focus RS? None, actually, because the fancy blue-tinged beams come as standard on the latest model, along with all the accoutrements you'd expect from a car designed to appeal to the 13-year-old in all of us.
Just look at the bodywork. It couldn't be any less subtle if it were decked out in a Burberry paint finish. Luckily, this isn't an option, but the remaining colour schemes aren't exactly demure. The basic Frozen White colour scheme is so bright it'll make other white motors look beige in comparison, while the top of the range Ultimate Green finish, which costs a whopping £725 extra, makes the car look radioactive -- but in a good way. Continue reading...
