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Fancy a Nokia notebook?

John Chan | Feb 27, 2009

In a few years, instead of making smartphones that look like laptops, Nokia may actually make real notebooks.

Nokia likes to call its high-end smartphones "multimedia computers", a term we've never really taken a liking to. But a few years from now, we may finally see something from the company that will qualify for that title. In a recent interview, Nokia's CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo confirmed that the mobile phone giant is considering putting the Symbian OS in laptops.

Granted, large technology companies are always looking for new ways to diversify their businesses and there's no telling if Kallasvuo's statement will result in actual notebooks. But given Nokia's strong market position and good track record for well-made products, we will definitely welcome its entrance into the computer market. What about you? Would you buy a Nokia laptop which runs on Symbian? Tell us what you think in the Talkback below.

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Dell Studio 15 gets a new 15.6-inch screen

Darius Chang | Feb 24, 2009

Here is a nice instance of a no-brainer. Which would you rather buy?

a) A Dell Studio 15 with a 1,280 x 800-pixel 15.4-inch display, 2GB RAM and integrated graphics card for S$1,549.

b) A new Dell model with a 16:9 aspect ratio, 1,366 x 768-pixel 15.6-inch screen, 4GB RAM and discrete ATI Mobility Radeon HD4570 graphics engine for a mere S$50 (US$35.97) more.

The latest 15.6-inch version is obviously a much better deal with more upgrade options for the processor and RAM. The only thing going for the older 15.4-inch model is that the screen can be bumped up to a full-HD 1,920 x 1,200-pixel LCD, though at this display size the difference is unlikely to be noticeable.
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Apple to stop micro-USB from becoming standard?

David Carnoy | Feb 24, 2009

(Credit: Motorola)

Geardiary.com has a interesting post up about how more devices, especially cell phones, are using Micro-USB instead of Mini-USB, and how it's partially a ploy to get you to buy more overpriced charging adapters.

It's a good conspiracy theory that's hard to argue with, but it also seems clear that the shift to Micro-USB is about saving space in building the device.
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard screenshots leaked

Tom Krazit | Feb 24, 2009

Mac OS X Snow Leopard will let you return files wrongly placed in Trash to their proper home.
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A new set of leaked screenshots of Apple's upcoming Mac OS X release, Snow Leopard, appears to confirm that the most sweeping changes to the operating system won't be visible.

World of Apple has screenshots up on its site, along with a video, of Mac OS X Snow Leopard Build 10A261, the latest version released for testing. When Apple announced plans for Snow Leopard in June, it said that Mac OS X 10.6 would focus more on improving the performance and stability of the operating system, rather than adding features.
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Snapdragon breathes fire into Netbooks

Andrew Lim | Feb 24, 2009

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Qualcomm, despite being a company you've probably never heard of, is all around you. Every phone that boasts 3G is most likely powered by a Qualcomm chipset and now it's moving into Netbooks with a chipset called Snapdragon.

If Snapdragon sounds familiar, it's because it's being used in the Toshiba TG01 smartphone and offers a very compact computing solution. It doesn't need fans to keep cool, so it's ideal for phones and, now, titchy computers.

Out at the Mobile World Congress, Qualcomm was kind enough to let us play around with the Snapdragon-based Netbook, which came with a wide screen and large keyboard. It's only a prototype, but it worked beautifully from what we could see.
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