Full specs for the Advent Vega Tegra 2 tablet expected to drop at UK retailers PC World and Currys for just £249 have finally emerged. The biggest modification is the size, down to 10-inches from 15, but the 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra chipset is still under the hood, so it does 1080p. However, the 1024 x 600 resolution on the capacitive touchscreen is a bit of a letdown, but the HDMI output makes up for it.

There’s a 1.3 megapixel webcam, 802.11bg WiFi, a 3G SIM slot, 512MB each of ROM and RAM, and microSD expandability, with a 4GB card included. The OS is Android 2.2 and battery life is 6.5 hours of 1080p video.

If you’ve pre-ordered the Logitech Revue, the company is now sending out shipping notifications. The Google TV set top box is scheduled for shipping on October 21st. That’s just 10 days away. Surely you can handle a short wait like that.

Get ready to put on your pajamas and settle in for a long Google TV marathon session when it does arrive. Google TV will be coming to several devices in the near future and those devices will be competing against Apple’s latest version of Apple TV.

HP’s hybrid Android tablet with a printer attached is now available for sale for $400. It’s a printer with a detachable 7-inch tablet on board.

The company recently announced that it won’t be releasing any Windows Phone 7 or Android products, but they went ahead with the eStation C510 anyway as it was designed prior to HP’s acquisition of Palm. It’s available for purchase right this instant from HP.

The BlackBerry Style is headed for Sprint and according to BGR, the device temporarily codenamed the Oxford will be a Sprint-exclusive. The Style would arrive at Sprint on October 31 in gray. It will apparently become available in purple at a later date.

The flip phone will have BlackBerry 6 preloaded, a 5-megapixel camera, a QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, GPS and EVDO Rev. A support for its 3G. Bluetooth is onboard, and the handset should come bundled with an 8GB microSDHC memory card.

Acer has officially unveiled a new Aspire One netbook, the Happy. This dual-boot computer uses both Windows 7 and Android and has a pastel color palette that includes blue, green, pink and purple. The 10.1-inch, 1024×600 display is complemented by a 1.66GHz Intel Atom with 1GB of RAM.

A dual-core 1.5GHz Atom is optional, as well as 2GB of RAM with that CPU only. A 160GB hard drive is standard, and a 250GB unit is optional. There’s also a six-cell battery and the netbook weighs just under 2.8lbs. You’ll get Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Ethernet standard, with 3G optional. The AC charger has multiple wall plugs for compatibility with different wall plugs in various countries, so this one is great for travelers.

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Han Solo in carbonite is one of the classic moments from the original Star Wars trilogy. Now you can have your very own custom carbonite, with you instead of Han Solo encased in carbonite.

You can find out more details of these fun custom carbonites over at Paul Pape Design. If you are a bounty hunter, go ahead and get one of these and trick Jabba the Hutt into hanging it on his wall. Pretty neat.

Amazon has announced a new style of book for the Kindle called ‘Kindle Singles’ that are twice the length of a New Yorker feature or as much as a few chapters of a typical book. Kindle Singles will have it own section within the Kindle Store and will be priced much cheaper than books in the Kindle Store.

Kindle Singles will be the usual “Buy Once, Read Everywhere”. Buyers will be able to read them on their Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle DX, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, Mac, PC, BlackBerry, and Android-based devices.

Is that a Wii? The packaging would lead you to believe that it is, but actually it’s a W!!. A hard drive enclosure that looks like a miniature black Wii. Get it? W!!? Very clever. It will house a 2.5-inch SATA hard drive and offers a USB 2.0 connection that you can connect to your PC or Mac.

As an added bonus, the package includes some tiny Wiimote-like key chains that are also whistles. Umm. Okay. It’ll cost you $9.70, which isn’t bad for a fake Wii that will hold your hard drive.

T-Mobile G2 owners could not have been happy about the recent loose hinge and missing storage issues, but we have some good news that might ease their pain. T-Mobile has just released an over-the-air update for the phone, offering features like Wi-Fi Calling, mobile hotspot creation and also some performance tweaks.

You can expect the rollout to be done in stages. Now we can only hope that those hardware issues will also be addressed.

Gizmodo received the image above from a source who claims that it is the iPhone 4 for Verizon. Whether it is real or not, it looks damn good.

There have been credible reports of Apple engineering being aware of back glass problems that make the iPhone 4 design too fragile. So an aluminum back makes a lot of sense. There’s just no way to know if it is real or not just yet.

Ben Heck‘s latest creation may not look all that slim, but it is smaller than his 2009 version by 1.5-inches and an inch shorter. This latest version now has an internal power supply and is even quieter than before.

The system has the usual touch power and eject buttons and the display is a 17-inch Gateway LCD that manages a full 720p.

Looks like that leak was correct. Walmart has confirmed that Apple’s iPad will be arriving at its stores on Friday, October 15. All models will be available at the same prices that Apple charges and these will be part of a separate showcase of Apple hardware in-store.

The iPad will also be available online via Walmart, but only for in-store pick up, so you’ll be hitting the store no matter which you choose. The device will initially arrive at hundreds of stores, but an expansion will see some 2,300 stores offer it by mid-November. We take this move by Apple to mean that it is feeling some pressure from the competition.

We all want speed. There is no such thing as too fast. So Hitachi has introduced its 600GB Ultrastar C10K600 2.5–inch enterprise hard drive. It is said to be the fastest professional 10,000RPM hard drive. It features 64MB of cache and optimizations to help it transfer data about 15 percent faster in random seeks and 18 percent faster sequentially than the previous best performer.

There are also some new power management tricks that allow this drive to operate 22 percent more efficiently than the competition. A 6Gbps SAS link is what offers its speedy data transfers and includes the option for hardware encryption to lock unauthorized access to the data within.

You know how it is. You purchase a notebook that’s been filled up with bloatware that you don’t want. We’ve all been there. But the Korea-bound Samsung X430 notebook is free of such things. The notebook is apparently a Microsoft Store Exclusive, and offers a Microsoft Signature Image label that means that it’s copy of Windows 7 is completely free of trialware and other crap.

However, Microsoft has filled it with a bunch of in-house software like Windows Live, Bing Maps 3D, and Microsoft Security Essentials. I guess you are trading one set of bloatware for another.

Along with all of the Windows Phone 7 announcements yesterday, Microsoft also released its latest version of the Zune media player and sync software, Zune 4.7. The big improvement in Zune 4.7 will be support for Windows Phone 7 devices while keeping support for the Zune HD and other Zune hardware.

HD video streaming is also part of the update and users will have access to things like Zune Pass Music, TV shows, movies, trailers, and podcasts. Zune services will be included as part of Windows Phone 7 devices that can be accessed through the Music+Video hub and it will be able to sync contact data and other non-media info.