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While you are waiting for the Asus Eee 901, 1000 and 1000H to hit the USA, Asus has announced they are going to launch the new Eee PC laptops which are the 904 and 905. What’s new you ask? Well, these two models will have an 8.9 inch LCD but the chassis and keyboard will be taken from the 10.2 inch models. So they finally realized the keyboard is too small to use successfully? Are we going to see 704 and 705 laptops too?

Here’s what Asus officials said:

The Eee PC 904 and 905 will adopt Atom processors and the major difference between the two and the previous 901 model is that they feature a bigger keyboard. Asustek is still evaluating whether to make changes to the two models battery and storage capacity.

The 904 and 905 should retail for almost the same price as the 900 and 901 do, and in time they will replace the first 8.9 inch models. It’s also rumored that Asus will either drop 900 and 901 prices to sell them out or leave them to compete against the Acer One. If I were Asus I’d drop prices and have the 904 and 905 compete the Acer.

Here’s a first in the Laptop business. Asus UK have launched the first 1 Terabyte laptop ever. That’s a lot of storage right there. The Asus M70SA is the model we are talking about. The M70SA will pack two 500GB drives for a total of 1TB storage space. You will never delete another file. Well actually you will but you won’t have to.

Let’s see what they’ve managed to pack besides those two hard drives:

• a 2.5GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T9300,
• Windows Vista Ultimate
• ATI HD3650 with 1Gb VRAM,
• up to 4Gb of DDRII system RAM,
• Altec Lansing speakers,
• Dolby Digital sound,
• 17″ high definition screen,
• dual mode multimedia touchpad,
• integrated TV-tuner,
• 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi,
• 1.3 megapixels webcam,
• Bluetooth connectivity,
• fingerprint scanner
• Blu-ray combo drive.

Whew! I got tired just writing all that down. No need to say I’d like one of those babies. And since it’s the season for Batman related products, this Asus will come with a free copy of the Batman Begins Blu-ray DVD.

And here’s where I tell you we don’t have a price yet. Big surprise there. But with all of that hardware put together we should get a few thousand dollars ready. At least you’ll save some money on external drives. If you aren’t going to backup any data that is…

via iTwire

How would you like a smartphone with a GPS chip inside? You know, make all the calls you want, browse the internet and go GPS on it when you need it? It’s been done you say? How would you like a GPS with a phone chip inside? You know, stick it to your car, drive around, get precise direction and make a call or send a message when you need it? This is new… A GPS that’s also a phone! Mio’s Moov 380 GPS will let you make calls and send/receive SMS texts.

The Moov 380 GPS has just passed the FCC and besides regular FCC it has a SIM card slot and a SD card slot for storage. Does this mean that Mio have their first Moov phone? More good news for you, the Moov 380 will have data speeds between 2.5G and 3G.

Does this mean you can pack your Mio GPS with a pay as you go SIM card? You know, just in case you forget your cell phone at work? Unfortunately not. It seems that you would need a full voice plan from a wireless carrier to activate the Moov 380 phone. Which means that in case you aren’t planning to get a second voice plan you will have to share your SIM between your regular phone and the Moov 380.

via Mio