VIEWSONIC ANNOUNCES THREE NEW TABLETS

ViewSonic will reportedly introduce three new tablets at the Mobile World Congress next week. The machines sport 7, 9.7 and 10 inch displays. Here is a quick overview.

The 7 inch model is the ViewSonic ViewPad G70 we have already heard about. It has a 1024 x 600 pixels display, 1GB of RAM and 4GB of storage. It will run the Google Android 4.0 operating system.


The 9.7 inch ViewPad E100 has a

IS LENOVO EXITING THE NETBOOK MARKET?

Lenovo did introduce a couple of netbooks at CES in January. None of them have started shipping yet, but it looks like the company isn’t betting big on them and that is hardly surprising. Netbooks don’t offer good profit margins. Dell has already exited the netbook market. Acer has also hinted at a similar exit strategy. Lenovo could be the next.


The company’s older netbooks in the IdeaPad S

SAMSUNG LAUNCHES QUAD CORE EXYNOS PROCESSOR

Samsung has built a new quad-core processor. The Samsung Exynos quad-core processor is designed to compete with NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 chip which has already started showing up in tablets and smartphones.


The new Samsung Exynos processor has four ARM Cortex-A9 processor cores with clock speeds ranging between 200 MHz and 1.5GHz. The 32nm chip also comes bundled with ARM Mali graphics. Samsung is

HP MINI 210 GETS CEDAR TRAIL ATOM PROCESSOR

The HP Mini 210 has been updated with Intel’s third generation Cedar Trail Atom processors. The Mini 210 is now available with a choice of the 1.6Ghz Intel Atom N2600 or the 1.86GHz Intel Atom N2800 processor.


The new HP Mini 210 will have the same $299.99 starting price as the previous models. For that price, you will get an Intel Atom N2600 processor, Windows 7 Starter OS, 1GB of RAM and a

HAIPAD LAUNCHES ANDROID 4.0 TABLETS

Chinese company HaiPad has already launched a few Android tablets. None of these machines had particularly impressive specs, but they were cheap. And now the company has launched a new crop of Android 4.0 tablets which seem to have better specifications than their predecessors.


Haipad A10A10
The HaiPad A10A10 has a 7 inch display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. It is powered by a

HYBRID STORAGE TO MAKE ULTRABOOKS CHEAPER

Ultrabooks are ultra thin and light laptops sporting Intel’s latest processors and super-fast solid state disks. At least that is how Intel defines this new breed of laptops. While SSDs are fast, they are also pricey and that is one of the reasons behind the high price tags of ultrabooks. But high prices have never boosted sales. Needless to say, PC makers are trying innovative techniques to

ASUS EEE PC 1025C CEDAR TRAIL NETBOOK UP FOR PRE-ORDER FOR $300

Retailer J&R has started taking pre-orders for the Asus Eee PC 1025C for $299.99. This is one of the first netbooks on the market to sport the third generation Intel Cedar Trail Atom processor.


Precisely speaking, the laptop has a 1.6Ghz Intel Atom N2600 dual core processor, 1GB of RAM and a 320GB hard drive. The 10 inch display has a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. Other specifications