Hasta La Gadget!

It’s hard to forget a face like this one, and if Samsung’s NC215s solar netbook has been tickling your brain for the past few weeks, you’ll likely be delighted to hear that you can pre-order one now for $399. We’d actually not heard yet of Sammy’s plans to ship this thing here in North America, but it’s fairly clear that Amazon intends to hawk it — complete with an Atom N570 CPU, 802.11b/g WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0, 1GB of DDR3 memory, 25GB HDD and Windows 7 Starter. If you’re not exactly keen on ponying up for the solar panel, the otherwise similar NC110 has also popped up in pre-sale fashion, with $329 getting you in line for that one. Per usual, tap those links below to do the deed(s).

Samsung’s NC215s solar netbook up for pre-order at $399, NC110 follows at $329 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It happened once before, but now it’s in stone: MSI has just come clean with its WindPad 110w pre-order, with $599.99 grabbing you a place in line. For those who’ve forgotten, that price premium nets you a 10-inch panel (1280 x 800), 4GB of DDR3 memory, a 32GB solid state drive, a pair of full-size USB ports, a mini-HDMI socket, Windows 7 and AMD’s Brazos processor platform. Make no mistake — this ain’t your average tablet, which may (or may not) explain the $100-above-average MSRP. Hit the links below if you’d like to make the best impulse buy of your week, but make sure you’re prepared to wait on an August 1st ship date.

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MSI’s Brazos-powered WindPad 110w tablet officially up for pre-order, ships August 1st originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Do you hate proper capitalization, live in the British isles, and have a spare £350? Excellent, because Sony Ericsson’s Xperia ray has just gone up for pre-order on Play.com. Scheduled for release on August 15th, the specs of the Gingerbread-toting gizmo haven’t changed since we first spotted them. New to us, however, are the four hues we spied on the duo’s website (which you can peep after the fold). Unfortunately for pigment lovers, one can only call dibs the black version this far out, but with more than a month before shipment, we’d pull the trigger anyway — you’ve got more than enough time to sweat color choices, we say.

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Sony Ericsson’s Xperia ray up for UK pre-order, ships in August? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 Jul 2011 06:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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For a device so focused on speed, the 4G version of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 has sure taken its sweet time. The LTE-enabled Honeycomb tablet, which was initially set for a June 8th pre-order, is finally available through Verizon’s site — well, finally available for pre-order, that is. The slick Android device should ship within four to six weeks, according to the carrier, and will run you either $530 or $630, depending on whether you go in for the 16- or 32GB variety — oh yeah, and then there’s the two-year data plan. Whoever said the waiting is the hardest part clearly never signed a mobile data contract.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 4G up for pre-order from Verizon, finally originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The HP TouchPad features a 1.3-megapixel front facing camera and a 1.2 GHz Snapdragon processor.

HP’s answer to the iPad, the TouchPad, is now available for pre-order.

The HP TouchPad, which was first revealed in February, is set to go on sale July 1, but you can currently pre-order it on HP’s website.

Consumers can also pre-order the tablet from retailers such as Best Buy, Newegg, Amazon, Costco, Staples, and TigerDirect. There is no expected ship date currently listed for TouchPad pre-orders.

HP’s webOS tablet sports a 9.7-inch, 1024-by-768-pixel screen and will be available in two models: a $500 16-GB version and a $600 32-GB version. One feature that set the TouchPad apart from other tablets was its Touchstone technology, which shares information between the tablet and HP/Palm Pre phones. Apple’s new iCloud service (a major foray into data synchronization and online storage) renders that functionality a bit less exciting.

The TouchPad joins the crop of tablet devices hitting the market in the wake of Apple’s iPad. At the Consumer Electronics Show in January, manufacturers showcased nearly 100 tablets powered by Google’s Android OS. Some technology journalists argue that the TouchPad’s approach make it a more viable competitor to the iPad: HP and Palm developed both the hardware and operating system in house, meaning the device’s user experience should have the elegance and polish necessary to make a tablet succeed.

In addition to making the TouchPad available for pre-order, HP has also posted a slew of instructional demo videos showing off the key features of their tablet on YouTube. Below is an overview of the TouchPad, but other videos detail things like wireless charging using Touchstone, notifications and the device’s multitasking functionality.