Till now, they have been busy cloning various netbooks but now, it looks like they are also focusing on churning out clones of popular phones too. Meet the TigerG3, a HTC HERO clone. Just like HTC HERO, the TigerG3 has a 3.2-inch display and sports a resolution of 400×240 resolution. It even has WiFi, 1.3MP camera and support for popular video formats.

Weight-wise, it is infact lighter than the HTC HERO. Hero weighs 135gm whereas the TigerG3 weighs just 107gm. Of course, it costs way less than the original one: $140 only.

Oh, and it has chin too, just like the original HTC HERO

Read GadgetMix.com’s quick review of HTC HERO

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Celio Redfly is an interesting concept. It has a display of a typical 8-inch size, just like ‘normal’ netbooks, but runs no OS. Infact, it does not comes with any internal memory at all! All it does is that it acts as a bigger screen for your mobile device and provides you with a bigger and more usable keyboard.

Celio claims that they have been able to sell a lot of these units and can now offer the Redfly for the price of $250, which according to me is a still a lot. Why? You can get a real netbook that runs Windows XP OS for that price.

However, the whole concept has never been able to impress me. Perhaps it is due to the reason that I do not do a lot of input on my Windows Mobile while on-the-go. If you do, you should instead get an external keyboard. Or better, get a real netbook!

[via celioblog]

Whether you like it or not, ASUS made the linux immensely popular with their netbooks. Now, after netbooks, ASUS is now planning to use linux in one of their two upcoming smartphones. This is TOTALLY contrary to what we have been thinking!

We all thought the ASUS has been committed to windows mobile. Asustek’s Chief Operating Officer H. C. Hung told Reuters that both Windows and Linux will be used in the phones being co-developed with Garmin, a leading specialist in global positioning devices.

Right now, it is not known when the company will unveil its first linux based Smartphone, but rumor has it that would be released in early summer.

ASUS has proved that it is not a company that can be taken lightly. ASUS is the company that finally made the netbooks popular and their windows mobile phones are also selling pretty well. Moving to the linux side will help them to reduce the costs as linux is free. On the other hand, Microsoft chargers the vendors and OEMs some money for the license.

[via geekwithlaptop]