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We just got a pair of small-but-juicy Verizon rumors from a very reliable tipster: first, we hear that HP and Big Red are working together on subsidized WWAN-enabled laptops for launch in Q2. Exactly what machines will be involved can’t be confirmed, but if we had our guess we’d say Big Red’s got a cheap Mini 1000 on a two-year contract in the works, since these so-called “netbooks” are all the rage these days. Second, a updated version of the charming-but-questionably-useful Hub “landline killer” home phone is due out in the second half of the year, and VZW’s apparently retargeting it a little: we’re told it’ll be more upscale and boast even more features. And here we thought that internet radio widget was gettin’ all crazy. No word on pricing for any of this stuff, but we’d bet we’ll find out more soon.

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Thinking of picking up a VAIO P for your left rear pocket? Do you call Deutschland home? In need a mobile data plan? If you’ve somehow managed to answer yes (or “ja,” as it were) to all three of those inquiries, T-Mobile Germany has a deal for you. Sony’s WWAN-packin’ VAIO P — which has seen itself subsidized in America on Verizon Wireless — is currently being offered for just €599.95 (VAT included) with a web’n'walk Connect L data plan. For those too uninspired to search, that’s a €400 discount from what it costs to buy outright over there. Tempting, nein?

[Via Pocketables]
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Less close, further away — take your pick. The bottom line is that the UMID M1 mbook that we’ve been secretly swooning over for weeks now may be further away from a US release than any of us Yanks would like. According to new intel gathered by Pocketables, a Stateside release of the MID is still planned, but it’s apt to ship later than previously expected. Furthermore, the units already prancing about in other corners of the globe aren’t likely at all to support US 3G bands, so importing one won’t fill that hole in your soul the way a WWAN-enabled MID should. Better hurry up and deliver the goods UMID, else we’ll be forced to buy a rivaling unit and hack it up to suit our needs. Don’t say we won’t.

[Image courtesy of UMPCPortal]
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While MSI’s X-Slim line no doubt garnered the most attention at its massive CeBIT booth, we found a few other gems that our camera just couldn’t ignore. Take the Wind U123 for instance — which was camped out with a Intel N280 processor, the incredibly aged GMA 950 graphics set, the old 945GSE chipset (as opposed to the GN40, which we were carelessly hoping for) and a SIM card slot for 3G WWAN. It didn’t look all that different from U120, but then again, we never expected it to. Dive in below to see for yourself.
Gallery: MSI Wind U123 netbook hands-on

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While we’ve seen the latest and greatest ClarionMiND reviewed since it got stuffed with Intel’s Atom and optional WWAN, we’ve yet to actually catch one in person… until today, that is. Over at Clarion’s spacious CeBIT booth, we took the liberty of snapping a few shots of this here MID. After toying with it for a few minutes, we were less than impressed by the finicky screen response, and the noticeable lag between application changes got annoying pretty quickly. Still, the main home screen looked mighty slick, so we suppose there’s nothing horribly wrong that a minor firmware update can’t fix. Anywho, dive on into the gallery below should you find yourself intrigued.
Gallery: Hands-on with Atom-powered ClarionMiND MID at CeBIT

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In one of the most bizarre sequences of events we can recall, Dell’s Inspiron Mini 10 has finally arrived on its maker’s website. And this is after being briefly (and we stress “briefly”) unveiled in a 3- x 3-foot cubical at CES, being impersonated at Tecso by the smaller Mini 9 and showing up early on QVC. Yeah, weird. At any rate, we knew that the Round Rock powerhouse was looking to offer this pup up for sale starting on the 26th, so we figure now is a perfect time to host up a holding place in order to get people informed. As we’d heard, it’ll sport a 10.1-inch display, 802.11b/g WiFi, optional Bluetooth 2.1, HDMI out, an external DVD drive, upwards of 160GB of HDD space, 1GB of RAM, a keyboard that’s 92 percent the size of a standard laptop (that’s the same as on ASUS’ Eee PC 1000HE, by the way), a multitouch trackpad, 720p media playback, optional WWAN, an internal TV tuner and your choice of a 3-cell (3 hours) or 6-cell (6.5 hours) battery. Yummy!

[Thanks, John]
Gallery: Inspiron Mini 10 finally shows up at Dell’s website