Here we are again with our weekly netbooks update. This week sees some future products seeing the light of day and getting leaked. One interesting thing to watch is the entourage eDGe video demo. It may be a prototype unit (production in February 2010) but it does impress. And then we have this really cool new Firefox plugin. Get over to the other side and get updated.

Blumpit Turns Any Touchscreen Into A Useful Tablet

Do you own a touchscreen enabled device but what you have always wanted (at least for the past one year or so) is a tablet that has a simple interface that makes your everyday life simpler? Well, now you can do easily and for free. And without any pain at all.

Introducing Blumpit – a new and extremely creative Firefox plugin that gives you a simplified interface so that you can use your PC solely via the touchscreen. That’s right – all you need is Firefox and this free plugin. It basically gives you an onscreen keyboard and a widget-based interface. It also has games. The company behind Blumpit plans to sell its own tablet soon. No details on that one yet though. [Read]

Acer 1820PTZ Netvertible Up For Pre-Order

Talking about tablets and netbooks, here’s another one of them netbook-tablet devices. This one’s from Acer and it is called the 1820PTZ – a very simple model name to remember. This 11.6inch convertible netbook is available for pre-order from multiple sellers at the UK for around £530. [read]

Acer Goes Ferrari Red

Do you like netbooks and do you like fast cars? Do like Ferrari in particular and do you think Acer makes okay/great netbooks? If you do, then you would be happy to know that Acer’s Ferrari One netbook/ultraportable (11.6”) is now available in the US. Starting at $600. It is powered by AMD’s new dual core 1.2GHz Congo processor and also has ATI Radeon 3200 graphics. [read]

Cool Netbook Mod: Dell Mini 9 To Dual Touch Screen

Know about the Microsoft Courier? It is a dual-screen tablet device that does not officially exist. A modder from the Dell forums has just hacked his Dell Mini 9 in order to replace the screen and the keyboard with two touchscreens. The modder, called Pak-Kei, says that he will be making this even better with a custom casing. [read]

Blueberry Flavored Sugar On A Stick

Sugar Labs originally made the Sugar on a stick OS for the XO-1 OLPC netbook. Version 1 was released back in June and now they have released v2 – Blueberry. It has basic features like web browsing, downloading and eBook reading. Watch the demo for more information. [read]

Want It Super Cheap? China Has It, As Usual

Do you want to go super cheap on your next netbook purchase? You are may be thinking $250 or so. How about $160 or $146 even? AOJIE, a company from China has two netbook models that retail at the equivalent of those amounts.

The $146 netbook uses a 1.6GHz ARM chip from VIA. The $160 model uses an Intel Atom N270 CPU. They both come with Windows XP, 1024×576 pixel resolution, Wi-Fi, USB, 1.3MP webcam, etc. The catch here is that they come with 512MB RAM and 4GB SSD Storage. [read]

Pine Trail Netbooks From Samsung Coming In 2010

Sorry to be Captain Obvious here but it seems like Samsung does have plans for using the Pine Trail chip for making newer, better netbooks. A French Samsung rep confirmed this fact at the Netbook World Summit that is happening at Paris. The netbooks are apparently going to be thinner and with longer battery life. [read]

JooJoo Tested Out By Techies

Several high profile tech blogs have had their impression of the JooJoo tablet and the feelings have been mixed and mostly on the not worth it side in my opinion. The device is apparently powerful enough to handle 1080p YouTube videos but the touch sensitivity is apparently pretty bad.

That is equivalent to having a pretty bad keyboard and mouse/touchpad on non-tablet devices. The onscreen keypad really does seem like a pain and then there is the price  — $500 for an Internet device? No thanks! We have really great netbooks in that range. You can get a Dell Vostro V13 for that price. [CNET, Engadget, Gizmodo, Wired]

Linux On 33% Netbooks

Any surprises? There shouldn’t be really. After being the base for all the lightweight, netbook optimized OS’, this was bound to happen. Besides, it is free and easily customizable and you can choose from so many different distributions. It lets you choose how involved you want to be with your OS – Über Geek mode or average consumer mode. Analysts have finally found out that Linux runs on 1/3 of all netbooks. [read]

The X100e Has Siblings In The Pipeline

After rumors of a ThinkPad branded Lenovo netbook hit the market, there was a lot of the usual excitement. And now that excitement just might explode all over the place because it seems like the X100e is actually part of at least 3 (almost) confirmed ThinkPad netbooks. Thanks to RealTek, whose WLAN modules are used by these netbooks, and FCC – we now have some kind of confirmation for these models. [read]

Entourage eDGe Prototype Gets Shot (On Video)

The eDGe from Entourage is the world’s first ‘Dualbook’. That is a name given by the company to devices that have two screens – one eInk and the other normal LCD. The purpose of the device is to act like a MID/Netbook and an eBook reader at the same time. The first generation prototype of the Entourage eDGe was spotted at an event and it was shot for a video demo of the software. This is only a prototype and the production unit is expected to be much faster, better and slimmer.

There’s also a talk of the production version supporting HD video and 3D graphics thanks to Marvell’s Armada chip. [read]

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