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What happens when you combine a smartphone with a netbook? You get what Lenovo calls a smartbook. The company on Tuesday announced its first smartbook product, the Skylight.

The Skylight is basically a “notbook” (i.e. a netbook that refuses to be labeled a netbook) incorporating some of the guts you’d normally see in a smartphone. It’s an ARM-based computer equipped with Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon processor and a 10-inch high-resolution screen. It features built-in Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity, meaning Lenovo expects you’ll mainly use this product with an internet connection. Thus, the Skylight includes a 20GB flash drive as opposed to the traditional beefy hard disk drive; the notbook supports various external memory formats if you wish to expand on the storage.

Some more specs:

• Operating System: Linux
• Resolution: 1,278-by-720 pixels
• Battery life: 10 hours, according to Lenovo
• Connectivity: Two USB ports, Micro SDHC (with card installed), SIM slot, multimedia card slot (SD, SDHC, MMC), mini HDMI connector, headset jack
• Camera: 1.3-megapixel webcam
• Colors: Earth red and lotus blue

The Skylight will cost $500 and begin shipping later this year. Lenovo also plans to offer the Skylight through AT&T, which would likely involve carrier subsidy with a two-year data contract. A video demonstration of the Skylight can be found at Lenovo’s website.

See Also:

• Nokia Booklet 3G
• Netbooks Mutate to Meet Market Challenges

Photo courtesy of Lenovo

The Boxee Box has already been semi-announced once, but it’s making a much more grand debut here at CES — and it’s coming with a spec list this time. Just as we’d heard, the asymmetrical streamer will be sold by D-Link for under $200, and it’ll support a wide range of formats, including DivX, VC-1, WMV, H.264 MKV, and Flash 10.1. Service support is equally broad, with Pandora, Last.fm, Facebook, Twitter, Picasa, and Flickr all integrated — and there’s obviously Boxee’s app platform for additional apps, plugins, and games. Unfortunately we don’t know what’s powering all this under the hood just yet, but we’ve got a sneaking suspicious there’s some NVIDA action going on here — we’ll keep digging. Full PR after the break.

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It might not be glamorous, but if a $110 camera is all you can afford — or all you’d trust your kid with — then it suddenly becomes of utmost importance. The new crop of A-series cameras fits such a bill, with the 12 megapixel, 4x zoom, optical image stabilized PowerShot A3100 IS in the “high end” at $180, followed by the 10 megapixel A3000 IS at $150; 10 megapixel, 3.3x zoom A495 at $130; and similarly specced A490 at $110. The differences between the A495 and A490 are muddled, outside of color choices and fewer scene selections. The Two A3000 cameras sports 2.7-inch screens and recharageable lithium-ion battery packs (a first for A-series cameras), with the A490 units going for 2.5-inches and trotting out the AAs. All four shooters should be out sometime in late February.

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Continue reading VIZIO’s 2010 XVT LCDs go up to 72-inches with 3D, LED, WiFi & WirelessHD

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Pure’s always had a knack for crafting elegant, oftentimes unorthodox looking radios. Problem is (at least for you Yanks), they’ve been marketed and sold exclusively across the pond. In our humble opinion, there’s no better time to change that than here at the International Consumer Electronics Show, and sure enough, Pure is making itself known on the US radar with five distinct WiFi radios. Up first is the flagship product shown above (dubbed the Sensia), which boasts a 5.7-inch touchscreen, an oval enclosure and access to the Pure Lounge — a nifty little portal that taps into internet radio stations, Twitter and Facebook. You’ll also find an auxiliary input jack and a $349 price tag, which is only topped in this lineup by the $449 Sirocco 550. Said system is much like a mini boombox, complete with the typical WiFi radio capabilities, a USB socket, iPhone / iPod compatibility, a CD player and an SD expansion slot. Moving on, there’s the $139 Siesta Flow alarm clock radio, the $249 Oasis Flow — which just so happens to be both rugged and waterproof — and the $229 Evoke Flow that originally surfaced back in 2008. Details on actual US availability is expected to come later, though the full press releases can be found after the break right this very moment.

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