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The Machine Promote app was still under development and was not on the device to see.I was told with the intention of Nook users could not be inflicted with access to the satiated market.The Nook I looked by had apps loaded via the SD license slot and seemed to run fine.The device want still produce you access to all of your Nook material via the current interface with the intention of want befall swicthable pro the user.Competing drug include the Apple iPad and Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, but not any of them be inflicted with the same store equally Barnes and Patrician have.Even if the Kindle e-Readers from Amzon are sparse by this time, Barnes&Noble be inflicted with produced other than lone million Nook Color tablet pro this celebration season.

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At Finetech Japan 2010 in Tokyo, Newslight demonstrated a series of 3D naked-eye displays. Yes, this technology allows you to see in 3D without wearing glasses.

The displays included a 70-inch model which the company claims is the largest in the world. According to DigiTimes, Newsight’s parallax barrier technology “subdivides the LCD image into complex repeating segments that, when viewed and then integrated by human binocular vision, presents 3D views.”

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Touchscreen keyboard sentiment can be divided into two camps: those who don’t mind it and those who can’t do without a physical keyboard. If you’re part of the first camp, you may be excited to hear that Acer might just be working on a notebook so thin that it uses a frameless screen and touch keyboard, according to DigiTimes.

It’s apparently expected sometime in the second half of this year. According to the article:

“Acer is expected to adopt Corning’s reinforced glass substrate and simply print color on its back to allow the substrate to function like a notebook cover for a frameless design. The design will help reduce the thickness of the ultra-thin notebook and can also reduce material costs.”

In order to keep everything as svelte as possible, DigiTimes’ sources mentioned that “Acer will also adopt a touch keyboard to allow the notebook to be even thinner.” And judging by Acer’s relatively aggressive pricing strategy, I’d guess that the whole thing might cost less than you’d expect. Details are pretty scant at the moment, though, so let’s take this all with a grain of salt until we get some more concrete information.

Acer to launch a frameless-screen ultra-thin notebook with touch keyboard in 2H10 [DigiTimes]

Acer Taiwan president Scott Lin told DigiTimes “that designing an iPad-like device would not pose any technical challenges for Acer, but said such a product does not fit into Acer’s business model.”

Lin went on to say that it’d be tough to replicate the mojo that Apple has between a device like the iPad and the iTunes store. You can’t just copy the iPad without something like iTunes and the App Store, basically, and “few other makers, including Acer, have comparable experience in operating an online store.”

I wouldn’t put it past Acer to come out with some tablet devices running full blown Windows operating systems, though. Perhaps even Android, too. Acer’s a big company and if it sees a market for certain types of devices, it’s got the comparative advantage of being able to mass produce products efficiently and at relatively low price points.

I pointedly asked Acer president Gianfranco Lanci back in 2007 if his company would produce some sort of “aPhone,” meaning an iPhone-like smartphone, and he emphatically said, “No! Big no.” Fast forward a couple years and we’ve got the Acer Liquid smartphone and half of Acer’s 2010 smartphones to be sporting Android.

So, yes, Acer may have no plans to produce a closed-ecosystem tablet device but let’s not leave some sort of tablet device (or devices) out of the equation altogether.

Acer has no plans for iPad-like product, says Acer Taiwan president [DigiTimes]

Open the floodgates, Jimin! We’ve got a rush of tablets coming from all directions. Too bad most of the internet will call them iPad clones even though they were clearly in the works for some time, eh? Just like this $500 MSI 10-inch tablet.

DigiTimes is reporting that the NVIDIA Tegra chipset will be at the core of the tablet. MSI must have been paying attention to our cries because the only pic we can find shows that the tablet runs Android and not Windows.

Not much else is known at this point besides it will have “wireless support.” Does that mean 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth? We don’t know, but even if it has 3G, chances are the iPad’s sweet data plan won’t be available on it. Maybe T-Mobile will help out, though…