AMD is ready to make a move in the nettop and all-in-one PC business. The company already has a platform ready to compete against Intel’s Atom platform. The Neo has so far remained pretty quiet but AMD is apparently going to use it in future nettops and all-in-one PCs. Here’s what Bob Grim, AMD’s director of client marketing said:

We’ve known all along that this type of technology would really work well in multiple platforms and multiple types of form factors. These CPUs perform better than the Atom processor, and the graphics are superior. These things… can play Blu-rays, they can play games.

AMD hasn’t revealed any details regarding any future products but we’re suspecting it’s only a matter of time until it does. What would you choose between Intel’s Atom and AMD’s Neo platform?

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The HP Pavilion dv2 is going to be talked about these following days. It’s the first notebook which is going to run on that AMD Athlon Neo platform we’ve discussed earlier today.

The Pavilion dv2 will boast a 12.1 inch LED-backlit display and it will weigh just under four pounds. We’ll find a 2.5 inch hard drive inside it and you can choose from the 160GB base model all the way up to the 500GB model. Optional Blu-ray is available and as for ports we’re going to find three USB ports, an HDMI port, a 5-in-1 memory card reader, a VGA and an Ethernet port.

The dv2 will arrive in espresso or moonlight, or black or white if you have to ask. What we need now is a launch day and an exact price although we suspect this laptop will cost anywhere from $500 to $1,000.

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One of the big names still absent from the flourishing netbook business is AMD. The company has decided not to enter this niche yet but it’s definitely reconsidering its options. We’re not going to see AMD in our next netbooks just yet but AMD has decided to release the Athlon Neo platform for ultrathin notebooks.

AMD is thinking about notebooks which have bigger screens than netbooks but are still ultraportable and fairly cheap. AMD will use its new platform for notebooks in the 11 to 13 inches range.

The platform featuring the 1.6GHz Neo is said to handle better multiple applications better than Intel Atoms and it will be bundle with an ATI Radeon graphic card, either the X1250 or the HD3410.

One of the first laptops to use the new platform is a 12-inch Pavilion dv2 from HP which is thin and ultraportable and it will be priced under $1,000. Isn’t AMD a little bit too late to release a new notebook platform?

via cnet

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At the CTIA Wireless earlier this month, Kyocera unveiled a few new CDMA phones including the first one on our list–the Kyocera Neo E1100. In absence of a better picture, the one above shows its blue lightpipe with a “breathing” lighting design. The Kyocera phone features a hidden external 16 x 104 pixels monochromatic OLED display, a 2.2″ QVGA glowing display, 1.3 megapixel camera, voice recognition, and Bluetooth 2.0. The device measures 89.5 x 52 x 16.7 mm and weighs 90 grams. There’s no word on price or availability yet, but you can sign-up for an alert when the Kyocera Neo E1100 is already in the market in the phone product page.

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