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P1 has quietly offer two new notebooks into their WiMAX laptop line up for P1 W1MAX 1NSiDE Plan.

The two new P1 WiMAX laptop are from Asus and MSi.

The new Asus K42F has a 14.1in display and runs an Intel core i3-370M with 320GB of storage and an unimpressive 2GB of RAM (DDR3) — we’d expect at least 4GB from Asus, a manufacturer that prides itself in providing good value at even better prices. As you’d expect, wireless connectivity comes in the form of Bluetooth and WiMAX + WiFi b/g/n. Don’t however expect to do any worthwhile gaming on this machine as it run on Intel’s built-in card. Though as a media PC the K42F comes packing a HDMI out and Altec Lansing speakers with SRS Premium sound technology as well a pretty attractive gloss finish. Asking price for the Asus, RM2,699.

The other new WiMAX notebook is the MSi FX400 also with a 14.1in screen. It runs on Intel Core i3-350 with 500GB of storage as the same 2GB DDR3 RAM. Again, we would like to see more RAM included into devices in this price range. The good thing about the MSi is it comes with an nVidia GeForce GT 325M graphics card with 1GB RAM. Bluetooth, WiMAX + WiFI b/g/n all comes as standard. The MSi goes for RM2,699. No guesses on which one offers the better value.

We had the opportunity to play with the MSi FX400 for a few days a coupole of months back and if we had to choose between the two, our money’s on the MSi.

The six months free P1 1NSiDE offer is still on for both devices. That means if you purchase any WiMAX notebook and activate your P1 account, you’ll get free six months P1 1NSiDE broadband for free. The P1 1NSiDE plan gives you 15GB data cap a month with no speed cap for RM89.

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Well, more and more Android-based tablet pc are flooding into the market, trying to emulate the success of Apple’s iPad. After release of Dell Streak. Augen Electronics, a company based in Florida, US has just released their own tablet PC powered by Android 2.1, known as GENTOUCH. The GENTOUCH comes with a 800 pixel wide resolution and a 7” screen, allowing web browsing in full width. And this tablet PC is sold at $149!

Specifications:
•800×480 color TFT touch panel screen
•CPU: 800 Mhz
•Ram: DDR2 256mb
•Internal Memory: 2GB
•Expansion Slots: SD/MMC card slot up to 16GB
•Wi-Fi Connectivity with Full Web Browsing Capability
•Supports Ebook Formats: Text, PDF, E-PUB, HTML
•Supports Media Formats: MP3, WMA, FLAC, AAC
•Supports most popular E-Book formats
•Picture Viewer in JPEG, BMP
•Video Player
•Rechargeable Lithium Battery
•Carrying case included

Well, i’m not quite sure about its performance, but i do think the only thing “good” about this tablet pc is its screensize. The rest of its specs are mediocre, some smartphones can easily outperform it!

Verizon Wireless with its DroidDoes campaign is promoting the new Motorola Droid 2 with this sophisticated ad. Pretty high grade ad campaign which demostrates the new device slider QWERTY keyboard, 1GHz processor and corporate mail support.

Motorola together with Verizon has finally announced the Droid 2, the successor to the popular Motorola Droid / Milestone. To ride on the success of its predecessor, the Droid 2 maintain its original form factor and features a new slider QWERTY keyboard, WiFi hotspot capability and Flash 10.1 support. All of these comes ready the Android 2.2 (Froyo) built-in.

According to early leaked specs, the Droid 2 has a 8GB Internal Memory with additional 8GB microSD, a 5.0MP Camera and 1GHz TI OMAP Processor with dedicated GPU.

The Droid 2 is offered at $199 after a $100 mail-in rebate with a 2 year contract. For those who wish to share their 3G connectivity as a WiFi hotspot will need to pay additional $20 a month.

According to the press release, Verizon Wireless is also offering a limited edition R2-D2 version of the Droid 2 which will Star Wars content and R2-D2 skinned body.

Pre-orders are expected to start tomorrow at the DroidDoes microsite.

Dell is now selling their 5? screen havin’ tablet/phone, Streak, in their online shop for $299 subsidized by AT&T on contract and for $549 free and clear. Well, perhaps “free” isn’t the appropriate term, as an outright purchase will get you a carrier locked Streak with no frequency band support for T-Mobile 3G. Nevertheless, this gadget is garnering a great deal of buzz, if only for its screen size and Dell branding.

Streak ships with Android 1.6, but will be bumped up officially, to 2.1 before too long. Android hackers are paying particularly close to the Streak’s capabilities, and will be happy to know that some 2.1 firmware has been leaked over at MoDaCo forums, where users are reporting solid performance. This may not be the final version of the update that Dell will eventually release.

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