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It is becoming increasingly difficult to find non-iPad related news these days. The pipes the flooded with Apple’s latest and greatest creation. You know what else it becoming hard? Finding worthwhile alternatives to the iPad that show some thought behind their names. Asus pioneered the netbook, which is now on the wane according to some and “not good at anything” according to Steve Jobs. So now they are working on their own tablet device and they call it the Eee Pad. Would it have killed them to think up a batter name? I guess they simply could not spare the extra resources. Competition is tough you see. So while they work on it, they are talking to the media and giving out some details about what to expect.

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CTIA is coming up and that means a slew of new gadgets are about to come out. And if the rumor mill has to be taken seriously, HTC & Sprint will announce the HTC Supersonic — that one that apparently has WiMAX built in — sometime next week. It is supposed to be an Android 2.1 device with a 4.3inch display.

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The GDC (Games Developer Conference) is an extremely important conference for game developers everywhere. It has a long-ish history of holding these conferences for covering every possible aspect of game development for all conceivable platforms. They usually hold two days of ‘Summits’ before the main set of keynote addresses and other things start happening. Within those summits, there is the GDC Mobile summit which discusses every mobile platform there is. This included the iPhone up until the last time. But this year they have dedicated an entire summit to the iPhone, making it clear that the platform is now a major mobile gaming platform.

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Oh Nokia, what will you do next? You hurriedly built a Maemo 5 handset, you pitched against all other next-generation smarpthones and then you quickly abandoned ship and joined up with Intel to create franken OS MeeGo. Now, now that you are all over with that at MWC, you are trying to tease us into expecting C-series phones. And with what subtlety.

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Remember that Gigabyte convertible netbook I was talking about yesterday? Well, it has shown up as expected at this year’s CeBit. So we have live shots of it from the CeBit floor, courtesy of Netbook Italia [Google Translate Link]. There’s also a video from JKKMobile. Yeah, those guys are really covering CeBit this year.

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Asus has quietly put on two ION 2 systems on display at this year’s CeBit. One is an Eee PC model and the other is an Eee Top model. Needless to say that Asus will competing directly with Acer now, thanks to these upgrades and the systems do look promising. At least on paper they do. No has gotten them benchmarked yet.

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HiVision is a Chinese company that has a strange tendency — they usually never offer their products outside China but they often turn up at international trade shows and show off really cheap versions of the latest computer trends. So it should come as no surprise to anyone reading this that they have a really cheap tablet on display at CeBit this year.

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It seems like Intel will be in attendance at Nokia’s press event at MWC (Mobile World Congress) tomorrow. The invitations that were sent out to the press had both Intel and Nokia’s logo on them, suggesting another joint announcement from the collaborators. Of course, the companies themselves are barely saying anything about the whole affair. The official word is that they will be updating everyone about their relationship status and then Nokia can move on to a solo event about what new thing it has done in recent times. But that is only the official word and that is as good as not saying anything at all.

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Samsung has finally launched the Bada mobile OS and the first ever phone to run on it at the Mobile World Congress happening at Barcelona, Spain right now. The phone is called Wave, just as the rumors said it was. Officially it is the Wave S8500 — the first phone to have the Bada OS. As a piece of a hardware, it is easy to see that it is pretty good. But when it comes to the OS, opinions don’t seem to differ much amongst the attendees. The general vibe is ‘meh’ and worse. But that doesn’t mean that the phone does not have potential. Anything that has that great a screen is bound to have some potential!

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Yes, ladies and gentlemen — we all saw this one coming from miles away. iPad was the most talked about thing at this year’s MacWorld and Apple wasn’t even there. Not only that, the iPad is not even available for purchase yet. However, these are probably the things that give it the mystical value that it seems to have. In fact, we can only experience it through the few select people who got to touch it and the many people who developing or making accessories for it. The latter two were aplenty at MacWorld, as is only to be expected.

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