Good news, everybody! If you’re looking into one of Asus’s Eee Box 1501 nettops but weren’t exactly into the built-in DVD burner, well, better days may be ahead. It looks like a new version of the 1501 is on its way, this time packing Blu-ray. In case you’ve forgotten the specs, the Eee Box 1501 packs NVIDIA’s Ion chipset, an Intel Atom 330 dual-core CPU, 2GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive, and an HDMI port for good measure. There’s no official word on this yet, but the release of the Blu-ray boasting updated nettop looks likely for Switzerland in the near future, so we’ll keep our eyes peeled for more information.

Asus Eee Box 1501 with Blu-ray on its way to Switzerland originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Asus Eee Box 1501 with Blu-ray on its way to Switzerland

Maybe we’re oversimplifying here, but we never really got the impression that Google was intending to blow out the launch of the Nexus One. Sure, you could argue that seeding the phones to employees ahead of the announcement was an effort to build buzz — but it didn’t really make any attempt to capitalize on the move, and last week’s subdued press conference in Mountain View (sans the holy trinity of Eric, Larry, and Sergey) wasn’t the wild, crazy event it could’ve been had Google wanted it to be. That’s why we’re not particularly surprised to see that the app analytics peeps over at Flurry are estimating (based on usage of the apps that it instruments) that just 20,000 Nexus Ones were sold in the first week of retail — a far cry from its 250,000 figure for the Droid, much less the iPhone 3GS’ staggering 1.6 million. As Flurry notes, Verizon pumped (and continues to pump) millions upon millions of dollars into advertising the Droid in print, television, and the web; that alone boosted broad consumer interest, something Google earned to a far lesser extent through media coverage alone. Furthermore, the Droid instantly relieved much of the “if only the iPhone were on Verizon” pressure that had been building over the prior year, whereas the Nexus One brought nothing fundamentally new to the table for T-Mobile — and many folks on other networks either won’t or simply can’t switch to the number four carrier for business or coverage reasons. The bottom line is that we suspect Google isn’t sweating the Nexus One’s sales figures one bit, no matter how high or low they may be; whether that’s a smart strategy for Android as a platform in the long term, though, remains to be seen.

Mobile app analytics firm guesstimates Nexus One hasn’t sold like hotcakes originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This one has been flying under the radar for the past day or so, but talk is starting to heat up on some forums that Segway Inc. has effectively been bought out by one of its own dealerships. That initial word seems to have come from a Segway Inc. shareholder, who says he recently received a stockholder letter informing him that Segway Inc. would be “merging” with JWH Holdings, which is apparently a company formed by Segway UK simply for the purpose of this merger. What’s more, while the deal is apparently being called a merger, the letter itself reportedly confirms that it’s more of a complete buyout, with current CEO Jim Norrod supposedly set to be replaced by Tricia Laidler, and Segway UK’s Wayne Mitchell stepping up to be the new COO. Still nothing in the way of official statements from either party just yet, but we’ll let you know as soon as we hear anything one way or the other.

[Thanks, Ed J]

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Acer has ordered a bunch of NVIDIA Ion 2 processors for use in their nettops and netbooks which will be paired with the Intel Pine Trail Atom platform. According to tipsters at DigiTimes the systems most likely to get the new setup …

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Virgin Mobile has launched an ad campaign in Canada featuring two male models in a kiss. The tagline: “Hook up fearlessly.” The ad has already appeared on bus shelters. Agency of record Juniper Park created the new work to extend the …

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Acer has ordered a bunch of NVIDIA Ion 2 processors for use in their nettops and netbooks which will be paired with the Intel Pine Trail Atom platform. According to tipsters at DigiTimes the systems most likely to get the new setup …

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Acer Readies NVIDIA Ion 2 Systems

Acer has ordered a bunch of NVIDIA Ion 2 processors for use in their nettops and netbooks which will be paired with the Intel Pine Trail Atom platform. According to tipsters at DigiTimes the systems most likely to get the new setup …

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Acer Readies NVIDIA Ion 2 Systems

We’d been wondering when ASUS’ NVIDIA Ion and optical drive packing Eee Box EB1501 would touch down on US soil, and lo and behold today it’s showing face for all those eager enough to pre-order. The device is available at Amazon for not a dollar less than $479 (though it does have free shipping), and if you’ll recall, the box is boasting a 1.6GHz Intel Atom dual core N330, NVIDIA Ion graphics, 2GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive. All that and you get Windows 7 Home Premium rather than the ever-graying Windows XP. Of course, if you’re looking for all that in a mobile form factor you can always wait on the $499 ASUS Eee PC 1201N, but for set-top duty, feel free to unleash the credit card right now.

ASUS Eee Box EB1501 primed for $479 Amazon pre-order originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Windows 7 is here and PC makers tout their offerings as loud as possible. Asus just made an announcement that says that Asus Notebooks, Netbooks, Nettops and Desktop PCs come with exclusive technologies that take Windows 7 further.

Asus says that all …

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The Complete Asus Windows 7 Computer Line-Up Unveiled

The Acer AspireRevo nettop (a netbook for your desktop, get it?) is nothing new, but the one with an on board Nvidia Ion LE graphics card is something special, and it’s available now for $200 over at Newegg.

Inside, this nettop is pretty much traditional netbook save for the graphics, which means affordable 1080p HD video watching, if you’re so inclined, for a respectable price. As we’ve said before, this is a feature that’s changed cheap consumer computing, like, forever.

The rest of the deets are your standard netbook fare:

1.6GHz Intel Atom processor
1GB of RAM
160GB hard drive

However, as Liliputing notes, since Adobe Flash isn’t optimized on this graphics processor just yet, there will be some choppy playback of high quality/HD video on sites like YouTube and Hulu. Also, it kind of looks like a kid’s toy. A pretty powerful, cheap little kid’s toy. [Newegg via Blogeee via Liliputing]

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Acer AspireRevo Nvidia Ion LE Variant Hits U.S. Shores For $200 [NetBooks]

The Acer AspireRevo nettop (a netbook for your desktop, get it?) is nothing new, but the one with an on board Nvidia Ion LE graphics card is something special, and it’s available now for $200 over at Newegg.

Inside, this nettop is pretty much traditional netbook save for the graphics, which means affordable 1080p HD video watching, if you’re so inclined, for a respectable price. As we’ve said before, this is a feature that’s changed cheap consumer computing, like, forever.

The rest of the deets are your standard netbook fare:

1.6GHz Intel Atom processor
1GB of RAM
160GB hard drive

However, as Liliputing notes, since Adobe Flash isn’t optimized on this graphics processor just yet, there will be some choppy playback of high quality/HD video on sites like YouTube and Hulu. Also, it kind of looks like a kid’s toy. A pretty powerful, cheap little kid’s toy. [Newegg via Blogeee via Liliputing]

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Acer AspireRevo Nvidia Ion LE Variant Hits U.S. Shores For $200 [NetBooks]

You have the Twitter, you say? And you’re following all us Gizmodo tweeters religiously? If not, we’re right over there on the left.

If our 140-character bits of brilliance ever overwhelms you, and it will, try managing the streams with these five best Twitter clients, courtesy Lifehacker. You’ll be deftly surfing a sea of Tweets with us twits in no time at all. [Lifehacker]

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Tweet Your Face Off With These Reader Selected Twitter Clients [Twitter]

The LG Xenon offers plenty of multimedia power, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and even a good Web browser for not much cash.

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LG Xenon GR500 (AT&T)

The Nikon Coolpix S630 packs a generous 7x optical zoom lens in a body small enough to slip into most pockets.

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Nikon Coolpix S630

The Tangent Vita LT, an all in one system built mainly for education and medical environments, has a few features not found in other nettops, but you will pay premium for them.

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Tangent Vita LT