Acer Taiwan’s president Scott Lin has confirmed rumors that a 10.1-inch version of the popular Aspire One ultraportable netbook to arrive in black, white and sexy red colors. The release is tentatively set at early 2009, and possibly we will hear more about it during CES 2009. The screen gets bumped up to 10.1 inches, […]
Category Archives: Gadgets
NVIDIA to launch GTX295 January 2009
In August, ATI, now a division of AMD finally pulled its socks together and put out what was possibly their best product yet with the launch of the Radeon 4xxx series of graphics card. Not only did they outperform their similarly classed Geforce 9xxx serious counterparts, they also smashed the performance crown with the 4879×2. […]
ASUS EeeTop ET1602 touch screen nettop
Don’t worry folks, this is not another launch of their ubiquitous budget laptops, but a new version of their desktop, which is now available in touchscreen mode. The first EeeTop I came across was a minimalist, simple machine that is light and surprisingly portable. No clunky, complicated wires and a small CPU that’s both stylish […]
Samsung to launch new Google Phone in Q2 2009
We will be seeing a slew of new Google phones next year, that’s for sure, and Samsung seems to be throwing in the gauntlet and expects to have their own Google Phone out in the second quarter of 2009. The first Google Phone by HTC called the HTC G1 only had average performance in the […]
iPhone clone Meizu M8
Meizu is a brand familiar in China and they have been in the business of making portable media players for quite some time now. They have been hinting at the M8 for close to 2 years now, touting it as an iPhone killer. And finally in December 2008, they have finally launched it in China, […]
Kogan intros world’s second Android phone
Just as excitement over the Android platform developed by Google started to wane as the G1 announcement is followed by a slew of other phones, Android is once again thrust into the spotlight when Kogan recently announced they will begin shipping the world’s second phone to use the Android OS in January 2009. Actually, the […]
Nokia N97
Nokia welcomes another new addition to their family of N-series with the N97, which takes the crown as the crème-de-la-crème of Nokia’s flagship phone model. And on first glance, it seems to resemble a lot of the new phones that have come out in recent memory (cough G1, X1 cough). We have a full slide-out […]
Maxis Broadband-ready Dell Inspiron Mini 9
Maxis and Dell is having a promotion in conjunction with the upcoming PC Fair. This time, they are offering a Maxis Broadband-ready Dell Inspiron Mini 9 at RM99 a month, for 24 months. It works out to be a whooping RM2376, not very cheap it seems. But to make the deal sweet, Maxis throws in […]
The Pin Clock
If you are like me, you will not enjoy looking at the system clock on your Windows computer. It’s so small and not geeky enough. The same with the clock on your desk, it’s just too ordinary for a geek like us! Now, let me present you The Pin Clock which every self-proclaimed geek should […]
Four latest SOHO printers
The world of printers have remained nothing revolutionary… you have a cartridge with a small nozzle that darts back and forth across a piece of paper squirting ink on it, and that has largely remained the basic principle of printers since it was invented. Barring new technologies such as laser and ink-less printing, printers haven’t […]