This iPod Touch clone boasting a 2.8-inch touchscreen and a 1.2 MP video camera is now going for only $74.99 at Chinagrabber. It plays AVI and Xvid as well as MP3 , WAV, WMA, FLAC, APE music files with LRC support. If you don’t like downloading music or playing videos, there’s always an FM tuner. There’s only 4GB of storage, though a miniSD slot is available. Seventy-five bucks is not to be pooh-poohed these days but neither is an iPod Touch clone with a camera.

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The Asus Eee PC T91 will not be in the range of most netbook prices, but Asus assures us it’s still a netbook. It uses the Intel Atom Z520 and will have an 8.9-inch touchscreen that can swivel into tablet mode. It’s thin at 1 inches and light at under 1kg. Asus says GPS and TV tuners are optional. No price has been announced yet.

One has to admit, Asus took the light away from Apple today. Macworld wasn’t much at all. Asus, though, has several interesting announcements including the T91 above and the S121, a 12-inch ultralight notebook using the Atom Z520 and packing 512GB (that’s gigabytes) of SSD storage. Hope the Asus S121 comes with very durable parts, not to mention upgradable . The price and storage capacity says this notebook will be with you for many, many years.

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Macworld 2009 doesn’t have much for the PMP world. One of the few interesting announcements came from British Truphone for an app that integrated Skype calling, instant messaging and Twitter to the iPhone and iPod Touch. The Truphone app is now at the APP Store for free and on January 12 the Skype, IM and Twitter services will become available. IM that will be supported by the app includes Yahoo! and MSN Messenger and Google Talk.

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It looks like HP hasn’t completely given up on the design and form factor of the Mini Note 2133 as they have just announced the HP Mini 2140. With a slightly smaller display that measures in at 10.1-inches as opposed to the Mini 1000 which comes with a 10.2-inch display, the Mini 2140 is pretty much the same with the Mini Note 2133 albeit now coming with an Intel Atom processor and a bunch of OS options which include Windows XP Home/Pro, Windows Vista Basic/Premium, SuSe Linux and FreeDOS. You can likewise choose to get either an 80GB or 160GB equipped model. RAM maxes out at 2GB. Starting price for this the Mini 2140 is at $499.

This is one netbook I sure wouldn’t mind spending my hard-earned money on. It’s got the best features of the Mini Note 2133 and Mini 1000 all rolled into one beautiful package. Now don’t you wish you hadn’t hastily bought that Mini 1000 before Christmas and just waited for this one?

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Apple products and the new Meizu M8 will keep inspiring products coming out of China in the forseeable future. The new Newsmy M8 phone will trouble a few execs at Meizu but not so much Apple, I believe, considering the Cupertino company has gone for the thinner form factor since the iPod mini. The Newsmy M8 boasts Bluetooth and a VGA camera. It’s not a fancy looking phone at all so I’m guessing a very affordable price tag for this one.

Based on the phone’s Alibaba page, the M8 specs includes handwriting recognition. It’s a touchscreen?

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No one has an idea what Creative is up to. Obviously, it has something new lined up but what is Zii exactly, hardware? software? a new music store? Sounds to me like a version of Pandora, Rhapsody and Apple iTunes Genius. EpiZENter, a website and forum dedicated to everything Creative believes it’s a chip but they’re at a loss what it is for. They do have screenshots of the purported Creative Zii, whatever it is.

Note: looking through wikipedia for stem cell, I believe it has something to do with the characteristics of the biological stem cell, namely the renewable characteristic and the generative characteristic that leads to new types of cells. Must really be an iTunes Genius competitor.

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Our PMP of the year, the COWON S9 is not only pretty it’s also one tough portable media player. Remember the hullabaloo over the indestructibility of the iPhone? Well, the Korean maker COWON will not let Apple rest on its laurels, proving that they, too, could make one very tough gadget.

The S9 is one pricey portable player. Just how much would you pay for a PMP that won’t bear scratch marks wherever you put it?

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Lenovo has just announced several new laptops, but what we’re more concerned about is the new features they’ve included in the next batch of Lenovo S10 netbooks. As we previously reported, it will now feature Quickstart, but in addition to that, it’ll now also come bundled with VeriFace facial recognition technology for added security, and Lenovo Social which is a multiple social networking portal that supports sites such as MySpce, Facebook, Flickr and Twitter. The expected roll out date for these new S10 netbooks is in March with a starting price of $349. No word though if the design will also be refreshed, but as for what was disclosed right now, software-wise, it seems like a decent upgrade though I wish more could be done on the hardware end such as the inclusion of wireless broadband connectivity and a much bigger keyboard and trackpad.

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For a watch boasting futuristic technology, the Phenom SpecialOPS is a bargain for $295 (it was $195 during the Christmas holidays but I bet if you hurry, you can still get the discout here, though they block traffic from some countries). The specs include a 1.3-inch touchscreen display with stylus input, Bluetooth, speaker phone and MP3/ MP4 playback. There’s also a digital camera and a microSD memory extension slot. It’s one of the cheapest phone watches out there, given the features

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In China, Apple has apparently released a folder iPhone called iPhone Air. Fake? You betcha. The best part feature of the fake iPhone Air, in my opinion, is not the FM tuner, Bluetooth or camera or the facts that it’s a clamshell, but the Apple logo that glow in the dark.

A clamshell iPhone is actually a great idea, don’t you think?

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