A quick glance at that render we'd obtained of the rumored MOTOSPLIT had us thinking we were seeing a large, Sholes-style phone with a musclebound OMAP3 core, but hold up -- maybe this is a lower-end (and stranger) phone than we'd originally thought. Android Community has gotten tipped with additional details and another supposed render of the handset, and the most notable tidbit here seems to be that the phone is said to use dynamic key labels ( a la Samsung Alias 2) to let the user pull out a

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ExoPC tablet opens up for the world to see

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Published Feb. 6, 2010 at 5:09 p.m.

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It was just a week ago that the $599 8.9-inch ExoPC tablet came into our lives, but now we've been lucky enough to receive some shots of its internals. If tablet or netbook organs are your thing there's plenty to see in the gallery below, including some photos of the fan, what appears to be a Ene memory card controller, and an open Mini PCI-Express slot. The Intel Atom N270 CPU, 945 Express chipset and 2GB of RAM are blurry, but ExoPC has been nice enough to confirm those specs for us. Though

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Rumors Abound Concerning The LG X20 Netbook

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Published Feb. 6, 2010 at 4:51 p.m.

LG’s new X20 was reviewed and accepted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today. It’s no X30, but it can hold its own. Running Windows 7 on a Intel Atom N450 1.66 GHz processor, it’s got 250 GB of HDD, 2 GB of RAM, and with its 1.3 MP webcam and HSPA 3G, you can [ ... ] ...

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Filling That Netbook Shaped Hole In My Life

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Published Feb. 6, 2010 at 4:49 p.m.

Netbooks are a curious thing: too large and powerful to be a smartphone, and too small and weak to be a computer, thus limited by lack of portability against the former and just plain limited compared to the latter. And yet they’re selling like hot cakes. Why?Maybe it’s because they fill that happy medium between [ ... ] ...

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MSI Wind U135 Netbook Runs Pine Trail CPU

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Published Feb. 6, 2010 at 4:44 p.m.

MSI is taking advantage of the latest Intel Atom Pine Trail CPU with it’s Wind U135 netbook. The MSI Wind has a 250GB hard drive, 1GB of RAM, and of course, the 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N450 running Windows 7 Starter Edition. The screen measures 10.1 inches with 1024×600 resolution and the Wind has an [ ... ] ...

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New App By Newsy For Netbooks With Intel Atom Chips

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Published Feb. 6, 2010 at 4:41 p.m.

So yeah. I admit it. I had no clue as to what Newsy.com was until I read the wiki article. And now that I have, I might have to frequent their site more often.Newsy is now available to download from the Intel AppUp Center for free, offering 2-3 minute news videos for quick and easy [ ... ] ...

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