Meet:Mobility Podcast 39 – CES 2010 Warm-up

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DataJack Puts Pressure on U.S. 3G Data Services.

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MeetMobility Live Podcast with Runcore at CES 2010. Netbook Tech Zone, 8th Jan, 2pm.

JKK, Sascha and I are extremely proud to announce that we’ll be doing our first ever live-audience MeetMobility podcast recording (and hopefully live broadcast) at CES 2010 on Friday Jan 8th at 2pm

Thanks to Runcore, creators of excellent SSD solutions…

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Intel N400-series Technical Docs Now Available.

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Archos 9 Review.

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OLPC XO-1.75 will move to ARM CPU.

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‘In Other News…’ December 19th

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Archos 9 Gallery

A new gallery is up. 39 pictures that should give you a good feel for the device.

Full Archos 9 Gallery

Don’t forget the live session

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Archos 9 Tablet (Retail) Unboxing and Overview Video.

Thanks very much to Mobilx.eu who have sent one of their first Archos 9 devices to us for a week of testing and hands-on. You’ll remember hearing about this earlier in the year and getting a launch at IDF in September but it’s taken a long time to reach the hands of end-users. There are a few early devices out there already but not many hands-on and unboxing videos. Here’s my contribution. Related posts:

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Meet:Mobility Podcast 37 – A Challenge for Netbooks in 2010

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‘In Other News…’ December 12th

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Ultra-Mobile Computing Predictions for 2010.

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Long-Awaited UMID M2 UMPC appears as Onkyo BX in Japan.

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Eking S515 Detailed Testing Notes.

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Archos 5 Android Tablet. Full Review at Carrypad.

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‘In Other News…’ December 6th

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Intel Creates Tempting Challenge as Atom Dev Program SDK reaches Beta.

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