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Remember when we first heard that a mythical Atom D510 was on Intel’s roadmap way back in June? Yeah, turns out that memo was spot-on, and while the chip maker has since gone official with the next-gen architecture, we’ve yet to see it within any machine outside of a trade show floor… until now. Halfway around the world, the KND K1850 all-in-one nettop is said to be packing a dual-core 1.66GHz D510 (Pineview) chip, an 18.6-inch display, 250GB hard drive, 2GB of RAM and a DVD drive. There’s also inbuilt WiFi, a 3-in-1 card reader and a few USB ports, though there’s no indication that it’ll ever ship to anywhere outside of Asia. ‘Course, about four billion other machines from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo will, and you can bet your bottom dollar that they’ll all have the exact same specifications. Oh, joy.

[Via Slashgear]

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Intel’s Pine Trail Atom D510 already spotted in Chinese nettop originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Yes, this was only a matter of time, and we’re a little surprised we didn’t see one earlier. Regardless, this is the Palm Pre knockoff we’ve been waiting for. Seemingly called just iPhone +QWERTY — this KIRF is being marketed as just that — a real business phone with a hybrid identity blending the BlackBerry and the iPhone. And really, that’s not too bad of a description for this little dude, we guess. Boasting analog TV, Bluetooth, and an FM radio, it runs the much-loved OPhone operating system, and can be had for 600 RMP (about $88). There are two more shots after the break. Hit the read link for a full peek.

[Via PMP Today]

Continue reading Keepin’ it real fake, part CCXXXVIII: Palm Pre knockoff doesn’t know what it wants to be when it grows up

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Keepin’ it real fake, part CCXXXVIII: Palm Pre knockoff doesn’t know what it wants to be when it grows up originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s pretty typical for serial KIRFers to make minor changes to the names of the brands they’re ripping — take Sany Ericssan, for example — but we’ve never really known why. “Go big or go home” is the KIRF mantra we prefer to live by, and if you’re going to gank a phone’s design, by golly, do it with gusto. Give it 110 percent. In your heart, after all, that NOKLA’s really a Nokia — it’s what you feel deep inside that really matters, and no well-staffed, well-funded Finnish legal team can tell you otherwise. That’s why we’ve got to hand it to this particular model, simply called “Copy Nokia N900” in a painfully honest, accurate admission of its true raison d’être. Strangely, though, they’ve missed a few basic points: the Copy Nokia N900 trades the genuine article’s landscape QWERTY slider for a dual slide configuration in the same vein as the N85 and N95, for example, and Maemo 5 has gone missing — instead, you’re treated to a frighteningly accurate S60 5th Edition knockoff. If you can tolerate the dismal VGA cam, GPRS data, and QVGA screen, you’ll be pleased to discover that the phone features an analog (yes, analog) TV tuner and an accelerometer with “support” for flick control, which you can watch in action on video after the break — looks super fun and usable, doesn’t it?

Continue reading Keepin’ it real fake, part CCXXXVI: Nokia N900 rip shows no trademark fear

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Keepin’ it real fake, part CCXXXVI: Nokia N900 rip shows no trademark fear originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The iPhone is finally coming to China in an official capacity in
October. The handset is via China Unicom, that country’s second largest
carrier, which signed a three year deal with Apple back in August.
Unicom is hoping that the anticipated device will mark a successful
launch of the carrier’s 3G network.

The phone, which has already been available in China through less
legitimate means, will be selling for a lofty $732.50, a price that is
expected to push
a lot of users toward device-subsidized contract plans.

You could fault the infamous M8 for being eons late; you could fault it for shipping without a quadband EDGE / WiFi / 3G version; you could fault it for dancing in and out of the straight-up iPhone ripoff arena from its very inception; you could fault it for being really hard to find and buy outside of China. Most of that bellyaching can’t be solved with a few tweaks here and there, but that’s not stopping Meizu from whipping up a facelifted M8 SE with a few carefully-planned changes here and there. As far as we can tell this isn’t the 3G remake we’ve all been waiting for, rather just a handful of minor touch-ups to keep the original model fresh for a while longer: better signal strength, an easier-to-use SIM slot, new firmware, and new packaging, just to name a few. Sounds like it’ll be shipping for 1,999 yuan (about $293) in China, which would actually make this a nearly-perfect midrange unlocked Android set.

[Thanks, nice2know_u]

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

Meizu M8 Second Edition rights all of the M8’s wrongs, or not originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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