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Before IDF 2010, you’d likely never heard of a South Korean electronics company called Ocosmos. Now, their crazy concepts are bursting out of the woodwork. This OCS-9 tablet above not only boasts an Oak Trail processor and 9-inch, 1024 x 768 capacitive touchscreen, but also a removable stylus that slots into a hole into the back to stand the tablet up in either portrait or landscape modes and — get this — a slide-out, removable touchscreen QWERTY keypad with two OMOS Keys on either side. There’s a 3 megapixel webcam on the front and Windows 7 will reportedly run inside, and the whole thing slots into a TV dock with a host of video ports to let you watch video when sitting down. No word on battery life or performance quite yet, as the tablet’s most definitely an early prototype, but the company’s shooting for a working version by CES and a release in Q2 2011, for a $500 estimated price. Here’s hoping these dreams come true, because as far as concepts go, we likey.

Update: Now with close-up pics of that removable keypad, stylus stand and more, plus a few shots of another potential look for the OCS-1. These folks never stop prototyping! By the by, we’re told the OCS-9 tablet has pretty much the same hardware inside, including GMA 600 graphics and 802.11 b/g WiFi.

Ocosmos unveils crazy OCS-9 tablet with Oak Trail CPU, stylus stand and removable keyboard (update: close up pics!) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Sep 2010 23:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on August 13, 2007 by CyberNet.

Google has taken yet another stab at Microsoft in hopes of luring users away from Microsoft Office. Now Google is offering StarOffice 8, which normally costs $79, as an optional download in the free Google Pack.

What surprises me the most is that Google chose to use StarOffice over the free OpenOffice. Of course I’m not going to complain because StarOffice is actually based on OpenOffice, but it provides some propriety templates and clipart that give it an edge over OpenOffice. And just like OpenOffice, StarOffice is created to run on both Windows and Linux.

Here’s a list of things included with StarOffice 8 that’s not in OpenOffice (from Wikipedia):

• Several font metric compatible Unicode TrueType fonts containing bitmap representations for better appearance at smaller font sizes
• 12 Western fonts (including Andale Sans, Arial Narrow, Arial Black, Broadway, Garamond, Imprint MT Shadow, Kidprint, Palace Script, Sheffield) and 7 Asian language fonts (including support for the Hong Kong Supplementary character set)
• Adabas D database
• StarOffice-only templates and sample documents
• A large clip art gallery
• Sorting functionality for Asian versions
• File filters for additional older wordprocessing formats (including EBCDIC)
• A different spell checker (note that OpenOffice.org does include a spell checker as well) and thesaurus
• StarOffice Configuration Manager
• Macro Converter for converting Microsoft Office VBA-macros to StarBasic

I did notice after installing Google’s version of StarOffice that they had enabled a Google Search Toolbar by default. I’m not sure what kind of deal they worked out with Sun to provide StarOffice at no cost, but I’m not going to pass up a great deal like this.

One of the more logical things that comes to mind, however, is that Google will integrate this into Google Docs, and thereby make it easy for users to open and save documents from their online Google account. Of course Zoho has already released a tool last year that enabled integration of their online suite of applications with Microsoft Office, but it is obvious at this point that Google pretty much despises Microsoft.

I’ll go ahead and close it up with a screenshot of StarOffice 8 Calc (comparable to Excel) and StarOffice 8 Writer (comparable to Word):

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In a fitting end to a wild week, we’re running a bit late on the podcast. Wait, did we say late? We mean right on time, just like usual! Check out the stream and the chat below the fold.

P.S. And don’t forget that Ustream has Android and iPhone clients as well, if you’re out and about and you can’t join in on the Flash-based fun below.

Update: And we’re done! Don’t worry if you missed it, the regular podcast post will be up tomorrow.

The Engadget Podcast, live at 8:30PM EST! originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Microsoft Game Studios manager Kudo Tsunoda is usually known for his controversial choice of eyeware, but now it’s what he’s saying rather than wearing that is mixing things up. Kudo is so confident of his baby, the Kinect, that he thinks it will be the hot property this holiday season. He said this in an interview with Gamasutra:

The preorders have been really strong. As far as what we’re looking at for Holiday, this is going to be stuff that’ll blow away any of the sales you’ve seen with iPad… The Xbox 360 is already selling better than the Wii and Sony right now. Kinect’s really just going to boost that to a whole new level.

For what it’s worth we haven’t been blown away by any of the launch titles for the thing, so we’re not quite so confident of its impending breakout success. However, the Wii has certainly shown that people are willing to make frivolous gaming hardware purchases even when the software isn’t there to back it up. We’ll soon see if that mentality extends to pricey accessories, too.

Kinect sales will ‘Blow away’ those of the iPad — at least that’s what Microsoft’s Kudo Tsunoda thinks originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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