ARM ’s doing some chest thumping today by revealing a 2GHz clock speed on its dual-core Cortex-A9 processor. The move is meant to remind manufacturers that ARM can scale beyond its traditional smartphone strong-hold and into netbook territories currently dominated by Intel. ARM’s even handing out benchmarks showing the Cortex A9 out performing Intel’s single-core 1.6GHz Atom N270 — a processor launched back in 2008 . Of course, Intel already ships a dual-core Atom 330 processor with its low-power Pineview processor set to launch on the near-horizon.

Packard Bell sure has been keeping itself busy lately with some new laptops , desktops , and even the odd display , but it looks like it’s not quite ready to stop this train just yet, and it’s now also introduced its new dot m/u “netbook.” According to Packard Bell, that is the “first netbook with the performance of a notebook,” which could also mean that it’s simply not a netbook at all depending on your point of view.

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a CommentPackard Bell sure has been keeping itself busy lately with some new laptops, desktops, and even the odd display, but it looks like it’s not quite ready to stop this train just yet, and it’s now also introduced its new dot m/u “netbook.” According to Packard Bell, that is the “first netbook with the performance of a notebook,” which could also mean that it’s simply not a netbook at all depending on your point of view.

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a CommentWe’d argue that we’ve reached the saturation point when it comes to new digital photo frames, but AgfaPhoto would clearly beg to differ. The outfit famous for cranking out ho hum devices that are easily overshadowed has just introduced seven new ultraslim options, all of which are hoping to see a release prior to the mad rush that is the holiday shopping season. Said to be the “size zero” of digiframes, these measure just 1.3 centimeters thick while shipping in a range of sizes from 7- to 10-inches.

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a CommentMaybe it’s a byproduct of the phosphorescent Disney babysitter that raised us, but it’s near impossible to look at Sony’s Walkman players and not think whimsically of Mickey Mouse. An unfortunate emotional response to otherwise very serious competitors for your portable audio dollar. Joining the S-series are the new S640 and S740 Walkmen officially unveiled today in Japan. Both feature 2-inch LCDs, 720×480 TV-out, and the same quality MDR-EX300SL earbuds shipping with the better-speced A840.

At its recent press event in Paris, Archos presented its first Android-powered device – Archos 5 Internet Tablet. It’s not something we at IntoMobile.com care about much, but there was one thing that was also shown at their presentation – an image of the upcoming phone tablet. We don’t have all the details at this stage but we do know the following: It will run Android It will feature a 4.3-inch touchscreen (hopefully capacitive) It will be powered by a 1GHz ARM CPU (Snapdragon?) In a nutshell, Archos is preparing to hit the mobile phone market and hit it hard.

It wasn’t exactly a surprise, given that Microsoft told us last month exactly when they would be available, but sure enough you can now get yourself a Zune HD with some funky wallpaper on the front and a fresh etching on the back. The artistic designs are just as interesting as the earlier ones applied to the dearly departed models, and as before you can get custom inscriptions added to the top, like the example above we created to mark the budding romance between our own Joshua Topolsky and his Zune.

We’d argue that we’ve reached the saturation point when it comes to new digital photo frames , but AgfaPhoto would clearly beg to differ. The outfit famous for cranking out ho hum devices that are easily overshadowed has just introduced seven new ultraslim options, all of which are hoping to see a release prior to the mad rush that is the holiday shopping season. Said to be the “size zero” of digiframes, these measure just 1.3 centimeters thick while shipping in a range of sizes from 7- to 10-inches.

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One of the main draws to the iPhone is the touchscreen only design making it smaller as well as giving users access to countless keyboards and languages without the need for costly hardware changes. However, some people still want a bit more physical interaction in their lives. Introducing the iTwinge. For those of you who just simply must have something to touch, this little doo dad slips over the bottom half of the iPhone that is normally displaying a keyboard and gives you something a little more tangible to handle.