Hasta La Gadget!

We just bumped into LG’s X120, a barely-differentiated followup to the X110 that’s floating around the show floor. There’s still a 1.6GHz Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, 160GB hard drive, Windows XP and a 10-inch WSVGA screen, but what’s new is the Splashtop-powered “LG Smart On” OS, which does the quick boot thing we’ve come to know and love on many ASUS products, the Voodoo Envy 133 and elsewhere. The effect, as always, is pretty stunning, and the OS should be helpful for a quick look at the web or to hop on IM over the laptop’s WiFi connectivity. The netbook itself seems to have been tweaked a tad on aesthetics, but it’s still a bit thicker than we’d like at this point for the netbook market. We’re short on further details, but since the X110 did 3G, there’s a good chance that’ll be in play as well — we’re still waiting on PR from LG. In the meantime, you can check out a video of the startup after the break.

Continue reading LG’s new X120 netbook with Splashtop-powered instant on

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LG’s new X120 netbook with Splashtop-powered instant on originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Victorinox — makers of the original Swiss Army knife — made its first trek to CES with this, its new Presentation Pro. Tucked away with insane precision are a removable 32GB USB drive with fingerprint authentication, laser pointer, and Bluetooth remote control for your Windows-only PC or laptop presentations. Yep, key ring and scissors too. It even features a blade to fight off your enemies and a file to scrape away any fingerprints after the deed is done. We went hands on with the device and were truly impressed with the build quality. Here’s the rub: it’ll cost you $330 when it ships in May. Did we say it had a laser?

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Victorinox Presentation Pro floated by the Swiss army originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve got a VAIO P in the house, and we thought it’d only be fitting to put the quintessential “it’s not a netbook, we swear!” up against the quintessential netbook, ASUS’s Eee PC (in convenient 7-inch and 10-inch flavors). Stand by for further impressions, but boy is that screen densely packed with pixels. There’s another shot after the break of the P being swallowed by a 17-inch MacBook Pro… juxtaposition!

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VAIO P vs Eee PC… fight! originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It looks like the plush gray carpet in the Coby booth at CES isn’t the only thing that might make you stumble. Coby’s flagship PMP here at CES is the MP836, and it’s safe to say it rubbed us the wrong way. The device itself wasn’t that horrible to look at, but the interface and general aesthetics were both major turnoffs. The Coby reps said that it has multitouch, but there wasn’t any actual implementation to be found. It’ll be available in 4, 8, and 16GB variations when it does eventually hit the marketplace, but we couldn’t get a solid MSRP from the very confused booth staff. Be sure to check out our vids of the device “in action” (if you can really call it that) and the gallery as well. But hey, if lackluster three inch displays and unresponsive touchscreens are you thing, be sure to hit Coby up.

Continue reading Coby’s MP836 hands-on: when ‘not quite ready for primetime’ is a gross understatement

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Coby’s MP836 hands-on: when ‘not quite ready for primetime’ is a gross understatement originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Well, what have we here? While waltzing about the CES floor today, we stumbled upon a conceptual Mio MID that looks suspiciously like Sony’s VAIO P. The currently unnamed device was actually lookin’ pretty sharp, as it boasted a 7-inch WVGA (800 x 480) resolution display, integrated WiFi, a non-removable battery good for eight hours or so and a full QWERTY keyboard. It was also packing a trackball setup, an SD card slot, a few USB ports and audio in / out. We were told that the design was still being finalized and that it wouldn’t ship until mid-2009 at the earliest, and while we’d love to see this piece ship Stateside, we have our doubts. Oh, and did we mention that this thing runs on an evidently skinned version of Windows Mobile? Because it does. Peek the gallery below if you’re in disbelief.

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Mio’s Windows Mobile-powered concept MID hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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