Archive for the ‘Devices’ Category

A Comparison of the XO Laptop and EeePC

Posted by Rom Feria on November 30th, 2007 under Devices • No Comments

I was hoping that I'd be the first one to give you a comparison of the OLPC's XO Laptop and the Asus EeePC but since I was not able to get hold of an XO laptop, LaptopMag.com beat me to the pu…

Day with the Asus Eee PC (2)

Posted by Rom Feria on November 26th, 2007 under Devices • No Comments

To continue with our Asus Eee PC user experience, I will talk about how difficult it is to use the trackpad. :)

First off, the design of the trackpad may have been influenced by Apple since there is …

Day with the Asus Eee PC

Posted by Rom Feria on November 25th, 2007 under Devices • No Comments

I managed to get hold of the Asus Eee PC two Fridays ago. The one that I have has 1GB RAM and 4GB of storage (of which 1.3GB is available) and in white (a black one would have been way cooler). I have…

Intel’s Classmate PC for government agencies?

Posted by Rom Feria on November 24th, 2007 under Devices • No Comments

I have mentioned about Intel's Classmate PC being targeted for schools and government agencies. I re-quote

An Intel executive, meanwhile, said the eePC (sic) will not compete directly with the C…

Linux-powered ultra-portable PC war starts

Posted by Rom Feria on November 24th, 2007 under Devices • No Comments

In what seems to be a start of a war to get affordable ultra-portable laptops to the consumers, OLPC, Intel and Asus release their products just in time for the holiday. Each one seems to target one p…

Give One, Get One Program Extended

Posted by Rom Feria on November 24th, 2007 under Devices • No Comments

The One-Laptop-Per-child (OLPC) program has started accepting orders from individuals in the US. Dubbed "Give One, Get One", the program accepts orders for one XO Laptop at USD399 and gives …

Android First Look

Posted by Rom Feria on November 17th, 2007 under Devices • No Comments

After reading the OpenMoko soft-dev tutorial, it is now time to take a look at the newest member of the mobile development platform group, the Google Open Handset Alliance's Android. Here's wh…

Tutorial on OpenMoko software development

Posted by Rom Feria on November 17th, 2007 under Devices • No Comments

Now that mobile devices are starting to gain more numbers compared to desktop computers, the race is on to port desktop apps and/or develop new mobile applications for these devices. With various plat…

Will the Asus EEE PC get more kids to use Linux?

Posted by Rom Feria on November 10th, 2007 under Devices • No Comments

The less than USD400 Linux-based ultra-portable computer from Asus, the EEE PC, is one sleek device. Weighing in at less than a kilo but running Linux with 512MB of RAM and up to 4GB of flash-based st…

Now comes the Google Phone

Posted by Rom Feria on November 5th, 2007 under Devices • No Comments

After much hype over the new Google mobile phone, Google announced a platform instead of an actual device. The platform, code-named Android, will be released under the Open Handset Alliance. As rumour…