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January 7th, 2010, 22:05
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Right on the heels of NVIDIA unleashing its Tegra 2 (T20) platform (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/nvidia-announces-tegra-2-tablets-coming/), Mobinnova is jumping into the picture with one of the first smartbooks powered by the new chips. The device may be small, and quite thin, but its got a lot going on. First off, the design is nothing short of cool: the back of the rounded device actually snaps out of place to reveal its ports and slightly prop up the entire chassis. Under the lid it has a nice flush 8.9-inch display, but its smaller size causes the keyboard to be quite cramped. The touchpad has integrated mouse buttons, but because of its small size we noticed it being hard to make selections by left clicking. You'll probably want to stick with double tapping on this one. 'which is based on a 1GHz ARM architecture and an Nvidia GeForce GPU. It'll ship with 256 MB of LPDDR memory and use a 512MB solid state drive for storage."
Under the hood the Mobinnova Beam is powered by Tegra 2, which is based on a 1GHz ARM Cortex A9 CPU and a GeForce GPU. It will also have 256 MB of memory and pack a 512MB solid state drive. The unit we saw was running Windows CE with a software interface developed by Mobinova, though the plan is to release an Android version. We still found the user interface to be easy to navigate with all the applications centered on a carousel of sorts. As promised by NVIDIA, a 1080p video played back on the device quite smoothly both on the 8.9-inch display and on a 42-inch 1080p Philips TV (take that Atom! (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/asus-eee-pc-1005pe-review/)). In our brief hands-on the overall performance seemed snappier than the past Mobinovia with the first Tegra chip: Firefox opened in about 7 seconds and navigating to web pages was faster than we'd anticipated. We don't have any word on pricing, but Mobinova will only sell this bundled with AT&T connectivity. Hit the break for the full PR and some video.
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Right on the heels of NVIDIA unleashing its Tegra 2 (T20) platform (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/nvidia-announces-tegra-2-tablets-coming/), Mobinnova is jumping into the picture with one of the first smartbooks powered by the new chips. The device may be small, and quite thin, but its got a lot going on. First off, the design is nothing short of cool: the back of the rounded device actually snaps out of place to reveal its ports and slightly prop up the entire chassis. Under the lid it has a nice flush 8.9-inch display, but its smaller size causes the keyboard to be quite cramped. The touchpad has integrated mouse buttons, but because of its small size we noticed it being hard to make selections by left clicking. You'll probably want to stick with double tapping on this one. 'which is based on a 1GHz ARM architecture and an Nvidia GeForce GPU. It'll ship with 256 MB of LPDDR memory and use a 512MB solid state drive for storage."
Under the hood the Mobinnova Beam is powered by Tegra 2, which is based on a 1GHz ARM Cortex A9 CPU and a GeForce GPU. It will also have 256 MB of memory and pack a 512MB solid state drive. The unit we saw was running Windows CE with a software interface developed by Mobinova, though the plan is to release an Android version. We still found the user interface to be easy to navigate with all the applications centered on a carousel of sorts. As promised by NVIDIA, a 1080p video played back on the device quite smoothly both on the 8.9-inch display and on a 42-inch 1080p Philips TV (take that Atom! (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/asus-eee-pc-1005pe-review/)). In our brief hands-on the overall performance seemed snappier than the past Mobinovia with the first Tegra chip: Firefox opened in about 7 seconds and navigating to web pages was faster than we'd anticipated. We don't have any word on pricing, but Mobinova will only sell this bundled with AT&T connectivity. Hit the break for the full PR and some video.
Gallery: Mobinova Beam hands-on (http://www.engadget.com/photos/mobinova-beam-hands-on/)
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