Hasta La Gadget!

Taipei’s been far too kind to us Westerners, and with Computex drawing to a close here on this side of the world, we can’t help but pull ourselves together for a moment and look back at the trade show that was. It’s been a fairly wild week in news, in large part thanks to the smorgasbord of tablets that have surfaced for the first time during the 30th running of this great event. Both Intel and Microsoft dropped bombshells on the tech world this week, with ASUS, iiView and even the xpPhone making bigger-than-life impressions. If you missed any of the blow-by-blow action over the past week, we’ll work on forgiving you, and while you can relive the memories by visiting the links below, you simply can’t move on with your life without living vicariously through us during our trip to the one and only Windows 7-themed ‘100 Seafood’ restaurant. So long, Taiwan — we’ll be back before you know it.

Major news / product releases:

• ARM: ‘Eagle’ to follow Cortex-A9, will support Google TV
• MSI WindPad 100 is a 10-inch, Intel Atom-powered Windows 7 tablet
• MSI WindPad 110: a 10-inch Tegra 2-powered Android tablet
• ASUS Eee Pad official: Intel CULV processors, Windows 7, and a 10-hour battery life
• ASUS Eee Tablet goes official
• NVIDIA ushers in the ‘3D PC’ with ASUS G51Jx-EE, Eee Top ET2400 and CD5390
• Intel ‘Oak Trail’ is headed for tablets in early 2011
• Intel boosts netbooks with dual-core Atom, slims ’em down with ‘Canoe Lake’
• Qualcomm ships first dual-core Snapdragon chipsets clocking 1.2GHz
• ASUS EPad: like the EeePad, but with less ecstasy

Hands-on / previews:

• ExoPC Slate hands-on
• ASUS Eee Pad EP101TC and EP121 preview
• ASUS Eee Tablet preview
• Exclusive: LG UX10 tablet preview at Computex
• Intel ‘Canoe Lake’ prototype netbook preview
• MeeGo Moorestown-powered tablet preview
• Microsoft reveals Windows Embedded Compact 7, hosts heaps of tablets
• Pixel Qi introduces tablet-ready screens, we go hands-on (video)
• Intel demos Android 2.1 on Moorestown smartphone (video)
• Microsoft Windows Embedded Compact 7 tablet prototype preview
• Huawei S7 runs 1GHz Snapdragon and Android 2.1 like a champ (video)
• iiView M1Touch is a 10-inch iPhone tablet, seriously (video)
• Innoversal’s Pixel Qi-based tablet prototype: $530 for the display of your dreams
• ITG xpPhone functioning at Computex, we go head-on (video)

Everything else:

• Labor practice protest goes down at Computex, Steve Jobs called an ‘OEM profit bloodsucker’
• Microsoft: Windows Phone 7 not planned to hit tablets, Courier was always a concept
• Windows 7 tablet roundup from Computex, nay Tabletex
• Engadget dines at Taipei’s Windows 7-themed restaurant (video)
• Terror in Taipei: Computex taxi drivers watch live TV, video chat while cruising

After all of that, we’re still just skimming the surface. For the full monty, be sure to check out our Engadget Computex 2010 landing page right here.

A huge, huge thanks goes out to Andy Yang for his invaluable translation skills and all-around amazingness during the show. Another major thank you to the entire Engadget Chinese team for their hospitality and kindness. One final thank you to the nation of Taiwan and city of Taipei — without you, the world would be far less awesome.

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So, here’s the thing — there’s no denying that the Eee PC 1015T, based on model name alone, is brand new and heretofore unknown. But what’s really under the hood? As the story goes, this here machine was spotted lurking in the rear of ASUS‘ Computex booth, complete with a placard that informed us of its 10.1-inch glossy display (1,024 x 600), AMD V105 processor, an ATI Radeon HD 4200 series GPU, room for 4GB of DDR3 memory, 250/320/500GB hard drive, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, optional Bluetooth 3.0, a 6-cell battery and a few color options. But strangely enough, it seems as if the hard drive had been completely wiped, with only a brief boot-up screen informing us that this machine was an engineering release meant not for public use, and that NVIDIA parts were within. Hmm. In all honesty, we’re guessing that ASUS simply had to rush this particular unit out to make it before the show’s start, but we wouldn’t go placing bets either way — for all we know, the final version will get outfitted with a Core i5, Ion 2, inbuilt WiMAX and a Vmedia drive. Yeah, a Vmedia drive.

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We’ve been running up and down the show floors here at Computex over the past week, and frankly, we’re a bit overwhelmed. And exhausted. But mostly just stoked about chowing down on “fish legs” and “frog balls” at Taipei’s own Windows 7-theme eatery. We’ve been covering the major hits right here on our front page, but our tremendous comrades over at Engadget Chinese have been blazing trails of their own. We all know you’re looking for an excuse to brush up on your Chinese anyway, so why not dig in below to catch the best of the rest from a world-class group of folks? Enjoy… er, 享受.

• Samsung N127 running MeeGo
• ASUS CineVibe rumbling headphones hands-on
• MSI U160 netbook spotted with MeeGo
• Aiptek 3D digital photo frame
• Pint-sized HTPC remotes that Americans won’t ever see
• Transformers love Computex, too
• Newman PhonePC telephone gets an AMD chip for reasons unknown

More Computex coverage from Engadget Chinese — it’s just a click away.

Computex 2010: the best of the rest from Engadget Chinese originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 06 Jun 2010 04:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oh man, have we seen a ton of tablets this week here at Computex. And if you asked us to pick out the best we’d have a really hard time, but yet, somehow, this KIRF iPad we stumbled upon at Sanxi’s booth has been one of the more unforgettable devices we’ve seen… maybe ever! Yep, we spotted this plastic Android 1.6-running iPad-replica behind glass, and as soon as we got someone to take it out we were pretty much beside ourselves — the plastic body is the same exact shape as the iPad, and it has identical controls including the circular homescreen button and a non-functioning switch on the side. The entire thing is made of plastic, which if we had to guess makes it about one-third the weight of an actual aluminum iPad. The 10-inch, resistive screen was pretty much as unresponsive as they come — not matter how we dragged our nail on it it didn’t want to cooperate. Surprisingly, it did have a working accelerometer, so there’s that. Mind you, we realize there are dozens of these sorts of devices out there dwelling in Shenzen, but us Engadget editor’s rarely get to see these sorts of things up close and personal, so hit the break for a short hands-on video and the gallery below for some shots of this wannabe.

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And you wonder why the cabbies here are so addicted to mobile TV. Innocomm’s latest — hailed as the first Android 3.5G smartphone with Telegent’s mobile TV solution — was on-hand here at Computex, and while the Shark didn’t look too special at first glance, it actually proved to be a mighty respectable phone after we opened our mind and gave it a few precious moments of our lives. The handset itself manages to boast an impressive WVGA (800 x 480) 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen, and there’s an 8 megapixel camera around back to accompany the 3.5G connectivity, inbuilt WiFi and analog TV tuner. We found the device to be running Android 2.1, and for all intents and purposes, it hummed along like a clock. Touchscreen response was top notch, and the TV application loaded and closed with nary a hitch. Innocomm plans to ship the thing worldwide in the coming weeks, though users in need of a digital receiver will have to wait for a future model. Have a look at us presumably getting cursed at by a daytime drama queen just past the break.

Continue reading Android-based Innocomm Shark tunes into Taiwanese TV, makes us want to move here (video)

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