Asus UMPC range and prices announced

Asus has made public pricing for the much talked, much awaited Ultra Portable range EEE PC. There will be four configurations to choose from and, depending on the RAM size, storage capacity and battery duration, the PC will vary in cost from $299 to $399.

Asus Eee PC 8G is the top end model, which features 8 GB of SSD-based storage and offers 1 GB of RAM. Next to which is the 4G model which comes with 4GB of SSD storage and 512 MB of RAM. Both are equipped with a 5200 mAh battery, which gives around 3.5 hours of use.

The next two models are the Eee PC 4Gsurf and Eee PC 2G. The first one comes with 4GB of SSD storage and 512MB of RAM while other PC 2G Surf features 2GB of SSD storage and a measly 256MB of RAM. Both the models are equipped with a 4400 mAh battery that will provide around 2.5 hours of battery life.

Further Asus announced that the EEE PC range will be available with pre-installed Microsoft Windows operating system.

Myvu your personal display from video players

Personal video players with tiny displays desperately needed a display embedded in eye wear, and Myvu does exactly the same.

At around $200, its the best companion for your video iPods, Zens, Zune. With Myvu you can watch your downloaded stuff in complete privacy without interference from your nosy neighbor.

Myvu gives you a big screen experience in total privacy.

Some of the features are :

• myvu personal media viewer
• noise-canceling in-ear earbuds
• small pendant for playback and brightness controls
• Rechargeable battery offering up to 4 hours of viewing time
• Connectivity kit for most portable media players
  

Firefox for mobile market in 2008

Firefox developer team has announced that they will bring the browser to the mobile market in 2008.

Mozilla will add mobile devices to the first class/tier-1 platform set for Mozilla2, the next-generation browser technology due in 2008, Mike Schroepfer wrote in the Mozillazine blog. "This means we will make core platform decisions with mobile devices as first-class citizens. We will ship a version of "Mobile Firefox" which can, among other things, run Firefox extensions on mobile devices and allow others to build rich applications via XUL."

While Firefox has had a persistent reputation of being a "fatter" (i.e., more resource-intensive) browser than rivals like Opera, Schroepfer said that mobile hardware is finally catching up with the software. A Mozilla-based browser has already been released for the Nokia N800.

OpenMoko's Neo 1973 a opensource iPhone killer

Pictured here is the Linux powered $300 potential 'Iphone Killer' as touted by the industry from OpenMoko named as Neo 1973.

Although not as cute looking as iPhone, but shares the design philosophy of iPhone, that is no buttons, just screen. The touch screen can be used with stylus or fingers. Most important feature is it is not locked to the network, that means you can use it with any network. All the hardware is documented, and the software is open source. A SDK is provided at www.openmoko.org you can also download an emulator and try your software without the real hardware.

The base version of the NEO sells for $300. It has a 2.8" VGA touch screen, a micro SD card slot, a USB port and 2.5G GSM quad band capability.

The Neo 1973 boasts the following hardware specifications

• 2.8" VGA TFT color display
• Touchscreen, usable with stylus or fingers
• 266MHz Samsung System on a Chip (SOC)
• USB 1.1, switchable between Client and Host (unpowered)
• Integrated AGPS
• 2.5G GSM – quad band, voice, CSD, GPRS
• Bluetooth 2.0
• Micro SD slot
• High Quality audio codec