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Coby $85 smartbook feels like a hundred bucks (hands-on)
Mar 4th
Funny how our tune on smartbooks totally changes when one’s got an $85 price tag. We happened upon Coby’s booth at CeBIT this morning and of all the fairly cheap feeling laptops the company had on display it was its 7-inch NBPC722 smartbook that cozied right up to us. Okay, so it isn’t as thin or attractive as the $499 Lenovo’s Skylight, but again let us remind you that it costs about as much as a couple of new printer ink cartridges. Inside the little guy packs a 624MHz Marvell PXA303 processor, 2GB of flash storage and runs Windows CE which all should be good enough for some light Web browsing and e-mail writing. There was actually a YouTube shortcut on the desktop, but the NBPC722 wasn’t connected to try it out. Apparently this inexpensive laptop should be making its way stateside this spring, but until the flowers start blooming you’ve got the video below.
Coby’s MP837 thankfully doesn’t pick up where the MP836 left off
Jan 11th
Surely you remember the Coby MP836, the first touchscreen PMP from the low-end company that we had a bit of trouble with at last year’s CES. Well, this year they’re back at it again — this time pimping the MP837, which really deserves more than a one digit jump. We’re glad to report that they’ve made quite a bit of progress over the year, and that they’ve addressed many of the problems from the first one. It has a 3-inch touchscreen with haptic feedback, and it actually registered input this time (though we couldn’t confirm that it’s capacitive). The software was also a lot more polished, as was the demo we got from a PR rep on the floor. See for yourself after the break.
