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Eclipse Litetouch wireless touchscreen keyboard clears the FCC, on its way to retail (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Remember the HP Android Smartbook that Steve Ballmer hoisted up at CES? At the time, details were limited to the fact that it ran Android and used a netbook skin. And just days before the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, HP has given it an official name: The Compaq Airlife 100.

From the looks of it, HP basically took the second-generation Mini 110 netbook, customized the right mouse button, and slapped Google’s Android operating system on it. It runs a Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHz processor and has 512MB if RAM, and a 16GB internal Flash drive. Every other feature is reminiscent of a netbook, including the 10-inch widescreen, 1,024-by-600 resolution, card reader, and 28WH battery (3-cell).

More intriguing is what will HP will do in the tablet space, now that we know it has a device that runs on basically the same parts as the Apple iPad. The Airlife 100 will be available only in Europe for now. There’s no word on pricing or when it’ll be available in the United States.

In all the CES madness, we somehow missed MSI’s previously-teased Wind Box DE220. Fortunately, Liliputing didn’t; the site’s just now putting up impressions and along with it some specs of the novel-sized nettop. It’s packing Pinetrail for starters, in the form of a single-core Atom D410 or dual-core D510. Also included are an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330, up to 1TB HDD / 4GB memory, 802.11b/g/n, and Windows 7 home premium. Mum’s the word on price or release date, but from what we’ve seen, you can at least start decorating around its known color options: blue, red, and black.

MSI Wind Box DE220 displayed and detailed originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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RIM has an interesting reputation in the trade show world: it rarely makes any announcements of interest or consequence during events, but if you look hard enough, you still might just find something juicy. Last year’s CES, for example, briefly saw a Curve 8900 mysteriously running AT&T-branded firmware, which we now know foretold a release several months later. This year’s shindig in Vegas proved to be a little less bombastic — or so we thought, anyway, until a dude cleaning out his camera’s memory card noticed that Case-Mate (of all companies) allegedly had an unannounced Curve 8910 chilling in its booth. It’s pretty common for manufacturers to give valued accessory partners some prototypes ahead of time to make sure there are plenty of add-ons available by the time a device is released, they just don’t usually… you know, put those prototypes out at a booth for everyone to enjoy. We actually stopped by Case-Mate this year and didn’t catch the 8910, but we don’t know how long it was actually out — and besides, telling the difference between this and a Bold 9700 takes a Mike Lazaridis-like understanding for the subtle differences in RIM’s industrial design. Next year, though, be on notice, guys: we’ll be scanning your kiosks with a fine-tooth comb.

Unannounced BlackBerry Curve 8910 took CES refuge at Case-Mate’s booth? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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