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Stantum has unveiled a 10 inch slate PC specifically built out of Dell Inspiron Mini 10. It is not known whether the company plans to mass produce the device because it is described as a ‘proof of concept’. There is, however, a page for ordering an evaluation unit. The slate PC comes with a multi-touch screen that can handle 10 touch points at the same time. The tablet accepts both finger and stylus inputs. It supports Windows 7 with no additional drivers.

The tablet measures just 1.2 inches in thickness and weighs around 2.3 pounds. The 10.1 inch display comes with either 1024 x 600 or 1024 x 576 pixels. There are 2 USB ports. Other features include Bluetooth and WiFi.

It will be interesting to see whether the tablet would do well when it hits the market. But one thing is certain: It will have to be priced aggressively.

The giant Fujitsu recently embedded the latest technology of 3.5g into its newest line of product Fujitsu U2010. Some of the specification sounds extremely impressive such as 3.5G WWAN connectivity along with dual antenna and up to 7.5Mbps downlink. The company name it Super-light, 5.6-inch touch-screen table-convertible UMPC with excellent Intel Centrino Atom Processor technology. For now U2010 is available in Asia Pacific, Singapore, Hong Kong and Philippines, in US it is recognized as U820. Company didn’t speak about pricing yet!

Physical Interfaces includes SD Card Slot, Compact Flash Slot and USB2.0. Wireless Interfaces comprises of 802.11 a/b/g and 802.11n. UMPC Portal opinion says it works 3.5hours under bapco is a wifi-off, low screen brightness test. Expect just about 3hrs browsing on this notebook. Battery life is noted as 3.5hrs under Bapco 2007 productivity workload test with the 2-cell battery. Consumer demand of tri-band support UMTS – 580,1900 and 2100 MHz is now full-filled with this machine. Further it Supports quad-band EDGE/GPRS/GSM - 850, 900, 1800, and 1900 MHz. Its optimal connectivity has built-in Wireless LAN, Fast Ethernet and Bluetooth v2.1. Even the keyboard is standard and typing on your keys is fairly smooth despite small keys. If going for it make sure you have unlimited data plan ;-)

The Samsung Electronics Corporation, the memory chip manufacturer, supposed Friday that it may procure a flash memory producer, SanDisk, in a transaction that may possibly restructure a struggling industry. A getting hold of of SanDisk would swell Samsung’s bazaar share at a time when prices for flash memory, utilized in products like digital cameras, cell phones and music players, are diminishing piercingly. The agreement would also trim down Samsung’s licensing costs. “We are seeking at an assortment of opportunities regarding SanDisk, but not anything has been sure yet,” a Samsung spokesman, James Chung, revealed. In an authoritarian filing soon after, Samsung told one of its alternatives would be to get hold of SanDisk.