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• Engadget: Origami refolded: here's what we know -- Mini Tablet with WiFi.

• CNet: Microsoft whispers Origami details -- A mini-tablet with a 7 inch screen, running XP, with Wifi and Bluetooth. A Microsoft Twist on the Nokia 770?

• MS Origami -- Awesome video showing the vision behind the Microsoft Origami device. It looks like a mini-tablet, very much like an updated Apple Newton.

• Blether: GP2X Review -- Positive review by Dan Champion. I'm so torn between the GP2X and the Nokia Web Tablet. Aaaarrgghhh

• Nokia 770 Internet Tablet -- Available in Europe already, priced at 245 pounds. Wireless Linux tablet.

• A History of Apple's Lisa, 1979-1986 -- The successor to the Apple II implemented Xerox PARC technology of GUI interfaces. Overpriced and eclipsed by the Macintosh which was released a year later.

• Nokia Launches Linux Based 770 Net Appliance -- As Russell Beattie mentions, the storage is a little limited. Although USB connectivity is mentioned in the list of features.

• Nokia 770 Linux Tablet -- Impressive device. WiFi capable, running Linux, and a 800 by 480 px screen.

• The Birth of the Pilot -- History of Palm, from Zoomer through to Touchdown, which became the Palm Pilot

• GP2X console goes on sale -- Linux operating system, open development platform. Plays AVI and Mpeg4, SVideo-out. Emulator Friendly. A strong competitor to the Playstation portable.

• X41 Tablet - First Impressions -- A positive review after a couple of days of use.

• ThinkPad X41 Tablet: a first look -- Awesome combination of a Tablet and X-series Thinkpads. Decent price and specs.

• Apple to add Trusted Computing to the new kernel? -- Long-time Apple fan Cory Doctorow threatens to switch if Apple ships Mactel with DRM

• Birth of the Lisa -- Inspired by Xerox PARC, Launched 1983, discontinued 1986

• Motion Computing's new LS800 8.4-inch Tablet PC -- Starting to feel like the right size. Now is it as smart as an Apple Newton?

• Flash drives in future Apple laptops? -- Removing the last spindle from a laptop, and quieter than a typical harddrive

• Think you know the Apple Newton's History? Think again -- The story behind the Newton and Junoir products. Junior became the MessagePad

• Useful Windows Software

• Tablet PC: The Next Generation? -- 'Could the hottest new Tablet form factor end up being a mini Tablet/eBook hybrid? Microsoft seems to be betting on it.'

• Ruby, the ultra compact Tablet PC ? -- Hmm, a Newton-esque sub-tablet. (via Newton Talk)

• UK misses out on wrist PDA -- 'is available from US shops and Web sites, but as yet there are no plans to offer it this side of the Atlantic'

• Fossil finally ships Palm OS PDA wristwatch -- decent sized picture of watch

• Fossil Abacus Wrist PDA -- 'When we first put on Fossil's Abacus Palm OS watch, a colleague predicted one of two things would happen: Either we would get mugged shortly after stepping outside or be proclaimed a geek god.'

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