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  • Lenovo CEO says mobile internet products will soon account for ‘70 to 80 percent’ of sales
    By Engadget on March 12th, 2010 | No Comments Comments

    Lenovo may mostly be associated with laptops and all-business desktops these days, but it looks like the company’s CEO hopes that won’t be the case for too much longer. Speaking with the AP, Yang Yuanqing dropped the somewhat surprising statement that he expects mobile internet products to account for between 70 and 80 percent of …

  • Mio stuns at CeBIT with ultra-sleek Moov V780 MID
    By Engadget on February 28th, 2010 | No Comments Comments

    Uh, folks — we’ve an identity crisis on our hands. Is this a MID with a penchant for navigating? Is this a PMP with pre-loaded maps? Is it an ultra-sleek navigator that just so happens to play music? There’s a fair chance the world will never know, but we’ll …

  • BPhone looks like a netbook, acts like a netbook, has ‘phone’ in its name (video)
    By Engadget on December 31st, 2009 | No Comments Comments

    If you were looking for a large and impractical “cellphone,” we just might have some news for you. Hot on the heels of a certain Dell netbook mod , we submit for your approval a 5-inch convertible device that features a QWERTY chocolate keyboard, trackball, and quite possibly Windows XP…

  • Atom-based PsiXpda UMPC gets handled on video
    By Engadget on December 13th, 2009 | No Comments Comments

    Remember that retro-looking PsiXpda UMPC we spotted earlier this month? Turns out it looks just as old school in person. That said, we’re still curiously attracted to the device, which sort of resembles an enlarged Touch Pro2 with a pinch of 1997 mixed in for good measure. The device was whipped out in the …

  • HTC Legend still looking good — as a render, anyway
    By Engadget on December 13th, 2009 | No Comments Comments

    We got a pretty good glimpse of HTC’s rumored Legend back in that huge roadmap leak a few days back, but now we’re circling back for a better shot (and a few more details) of the probable Hero successor in all its roughly-rendered glory. High-end aficionados are probably still…

  • HT560 5.6-inch UMPC spotted in Shenzhen running Windows XP
    By Engadget on December 2nd, 2009 | No Comments Comments

    Sure, an Android MID featuring some sort of contrived “net gen” functionality might promise inspirational moments , but will it get the job done? A company called Shenzhen Seed Industrial, located in the Chegongmiao Futian Distict (we hear it’s lovely in the spring) is offering retailers and e-tailers a Windows XP-powered workhorse…

  • Dell’s 5-inch Android Streak MID on AT&T in 2010?
    By Engadget on November 16th, 2009 | No Comments Comments

    It’s not much to go on but after months of rumors and then the sudden appearance of Dell’s 5-inch MID on video , well, even unsubstantiated reports from the Commercial Times can be taken with a degree of truthiness. The latest tattle has QISDA manufacturing Dell’s Android 2.0-based MID (spotted with a 5 megapixel …

  • CrunchPad is ’steamrolling along,’ will cost between $300 and $400
    By Engadget on November 15th, 2009 | No Comments Comments

    We’re not super familiar with the term “steamrolling along” as it applies to device launches, but apparently it’s good news for Michael Arrington’s CrunchPad tablet. Mike dropped the news on a recent episode of Steve Gillmor’s “Gillmor Gang” podcast (like “Gilmore Girls,” but with less inter-generational drama), saying that he’s not sure where…

  • Hikari to unleash iFrame Android tablet on Japan (video)
    By Engadget on November 13th, 2009 | No Comments Comments

    Hikari’s iFrame (as opposed to the other , Ubuntu-sportin’ iFrame from a while back) is an Android-powered tablet with a skin that’s heavy on the widgets and — in case you’re still intimidated by its difficulty — is also being touted as a photoframe for people who don’t mind ugly photoframes. Ideally suited …

  • xpPhone teased with specs and pictures, makes Windows XP young again
    By Engadget on October 30th, 2009 | No Comments Comments

    Don’t panic, we haven’t gone back in time. What we’re looking at here is the world’s first but still-yet-to-be-released phone that runs on Windows XP, and its Chinese maker has just released some juicy specs and interface images to tease us all. The ITG xpPhone will be blessed with …