Portable

Smartphone Comparison Chart Compares Extensive Smartphone Specs

Its confusing enough… Here is a great chart for the latest smartphones.  The carrier costs are US, but its still a decent comparison if you are looking for a new smartphone. If you’re in the market for a current generation smartphone all the new features and specs can be confusing at best. This extensive—but easy [...]

Skype app for iPhone to launch Tuesday, but not in Canada

Screwed for being Canadian AGAIN!  GDamit!! CBC News EBay Inc., is planning to launch its Skype voice-over-internet phone service for the iPhone on Tuesday and for Research in Motion’s BlackBerry handheld devices in May as part of its expansion from desktop computers to wireless devices. But while iPhone owners around the world will be able [...]

EEE PC 900 and the 100$ Rebate

I have been debating switching from a laptop (HP 6910) over to a netbook recently and have finally taken the plunge.   This was mainly due to a change in how and where I work which includes a commuter train and a little walking a few days a week.  The laptop is a little heavy to [...]

MSI Wind benchmarked and reviewed: now official alternative to Eee PC

Link to Engadget Story…. Here’s the moment many of you Eee-wannabees have been waiting for, the official announcement of the 10-inch, 1,204 x 600 LED-backlit MSI Wind. No surprises here on the leakiest of all netbooks. Still, when you consider that your $399 buys you a Linux-based system riding atop Intel’s 1.6GHz Atom processor, an [...]

Acer’s Aspire One – Another Official One!

Link to Engaget Story Just in case you’re not already totally sick of all these tiny laptops, Acer’s Aspire One is finally official. You saw our hands-on from the show floor at Computex, now the full specs: 8.9 -inch 1024 x 600 LED-backlit display 1.6GH z Atom N270 512MB DDR2 SDRAM (expandable) 1.3 megapixel camera, [...]

Asus Eee PC 901 and 1000 Official

Link to Gizmodo Story It’s hard to believe that Asus’s Eee PC 901 and 1000 didn’t officially exist until this moment. But now they do! Officially. ‘Course, there are few surprises left (except for battery life, they’re claiming up to 7.8 hours), which takes the fun out of it: Atom processors, 12 or 20GB (up [...]

Dell’s “mini-Inspiron” Eee PC killer revealed

Thinking of a new Eee PC or maybe Wind laptop? Hold up, Dell’s about to loose this baby on the sub-$500 mini-laptop world. All we’ve got are these pictures for now but the specs can’t be far behind. Even the name “mini-Inspiron” comes from the file name of the Dell-supplied pics. However, if what we’ve [...]