Sascha and Nicole from netbooknews.com kindly invited me to join them for a meeting with Freescale this morning. I have a video that i’ll process later but in the meantime, here are some pics. Note that this is a reference design, not the final sexy variant that you might find in the shops.

Our first CES 2010 post of the day is the press release by Spring Designs of their new eInk/LCD combo eBook reading device, The Alex.  The device features a 6-inch eInk screen at 600×800 resolution and a 3.5-inch LCD display with a 320×480 resolution.  The device weighs in at 310 grams (11 ounces) and 7500 [...]

If you’ve spent any time in the tech end of the blogosphere lately, chances are that you’ve heard plenty of info about the Nexus One, a new phone from Google that they are calling a “superphone”, implying that it is one step up from the smartphones that we’ve come to know. Google had scheduled and [...]

Good tablet  news coming in via Pocketables. SMiT will bring a 7″ Android tablet to CES. There’s no information about the specifications and just a fuzzy image so let’s add this one to the ‘hit’ list and see what we can find out over the next few days. Is it going to be a ‘real’ [...]

Freescale have released details of a ‘smartbook’ tablet reference design that should be available in Feb 2010. It will appear at CES this week

With less than one day left before I leave for CES 2010, it’s time to make sure I have all the right equipment and to give you a run-down on how to follow the Carrypad, MIDMoves and UMPCPortal news from the event.

This tablet device has been seen a few times at various expo’s over the last three months but it’s one that still doesn’t have solid specifications, pricing and availability info attached to it. We’ll be trying to track the C-motech Mangrove down at CES next week.

The starting point for a mobile internet device design is to look at the processing platforms available in the market. I’ve spent the last few days researching and reviewing the ARM-based CPUs and platforms and put together a full report that you can find over at UMPCPortal.

Interesting tablet thoughts from John Gruber of Daring Fireball.  Having researched the UMPC market for over three years I’m of the opinion that this space is for multiple niche products and not a multi-million selling success story but if there’s one company that can prove me wrong,  it’s Apple. I have a thousand questions about [...]

Smarthouse reports: An Android based device which is set to be shown privately to core HTC customers at the CES Show is set to incorporate new Qualcomm processors, touch technology and new software from Adobe. It makes complte sense for HTC to be exploring this potential. They have all the right relationships, design skills and [...]