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In its own inimitable style, Dell has just updated its Latitude range with the E4310 model we saw floating through the FCC bearing the fancy codename of Lafite. As part of the company’s “E-Family,” this 13-incher promises rock solid durability and rugged design without compromising on the spec sheet goodies. Processor options are provided by Intel’s 2.4GHz Core i5-520M or 2.53GHz Core i5-540M, while memory can stretch up to 8GB of DDR3 and storage space can be maxed out at 500GB. Alternatively, you can plump for the 256GB SSD, with a backlit keyboard, fingerprint reader and UWB radio filling out the optional extras. Prices aren’t yet available, but we can surely expect them very soon. In other unannounced news, the E6410 and E6510 models recently spotted on Dell’s UK site are now available via the US branch as well, with prices starting at just over $1,100 for base systems equipped with Core i5-520M CPUs. Hit the links below to learn more.

[Thanks, Jason]

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Every weekend visitors to Ginza and Shinjuku enjoy more space to walk around when the main roads are shut off to cars. However, it’s rare for Shibuya to give pedestrians this kind of treatment so Art Re-Public Tokyo, held today on the stretch between OI City and Tower Records, was quite an event.

For most of the sunny Golden Week afternoon there was live music from the likes of Soil & “Pimp” Sessions, artists displaying their works, and all kinds of bizarre performance art happenings.

We particularly liked seeing Toast Girl (top left, with friends) again, along with large inflated black rabbits, old men fishing in the street (Tange Kouki’s performance installation “Kusou turibito” [Daydream Fishermen]), and some peculiar guys in silver alien suits (Yuu Satou’s “horn man”)…Yes, despite the “Flower Festival” theme it felt a bit random to us, not least the appearance of pink and cute-but-scary Gloomy Bear.

Know what’s hot like 2001? Tablet computers. Just like that a product category has been reborn and proven viable as a money making machine. Now the scramble is on to fill the void by companies big and small. Samsung, a big name in the UMPC debacle (that’s the Q1 to the right) with its own confirmed tablet ambitions, looks prepped to deliver product this summer if Korean pub Etnews is to be believed. First up, the OS: Android. Samsung’s so-called “S-Pad” (the tentative name spawned under its S-Project initiative) will display Google’s smartphone OS on a supposed 7-inch Super AMOLED display with WiFi and 3G data connectivity — the latter supplied by SK Telecom who will supposedly help distribute the device. It’ll also bring an iPad-esque USB dock and content from Kyobo books (Korea’s largest bookstore) and Samsung’s own Samsung Apps application store. If true, we should expect to see Samsung’s S-Pad launch in August. While no price has been given you can expect the cost to be exorbitant thanks to that extra large Super AMOLED display unless SK Telecom can push it down through ample subsidies.

[Thanks, JH Yee]

Samsung’s Android-powered S-Pad tablet with 7-inch Super AMOLED in August? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 May 2010 01:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Hey, CLIQ, better check that rear-view mirror, because you’ve got an interesting competitor coming right up on your tail. T-Mobile is launching another midrange Android QWERTY slider — some might argue the G1’s true successor — christened the myTouch 3G Slide (not quite the “myTouch Slide” we’ve been hearing for a few months) with a 3.4-inch HVGA display, 5 megapixel camera, and a pretty heavily-customized skin based on Android 2.1. How custom are we talking, exactly? Well, it’s not quite like anything we’ve seen on a production Android device before, featuring a host of custom apps including the “Faves Gallery,” a social aggregator for your most dearly beloved contacts; “myModes,” a profile manager that can change the phone’s themes and settings based on time or location; the Swype keyboard in place of Google’s option; and the so-called “Genius Button,” which seeks to extend Android’s already decent voice command and text-to-speech systems by allowing you to do just about anything on the phone using your voice, hear messages read back to you, and so on. In the myTouch 3G tradition, the Slide will come in a selection of colors when it launches in June — black, white, or red — for a to-be-announced price. Check out T-Mobile’s full press release along with our impressions of the device after the break

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T-Mobile announces the upcoming availability of its latest Android device, the MyTouch Slide, complete with a new user interface customized by the carrier. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://www.cnet.com/8301-19736_1-20003883-251.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Android Atlas/a/p