Toshiba recently announced the Portege R500 12.1" widescreen notebook that includes the new Intel Core 2 Duo U7600 (Merom) platform, and is the first ultraportable laptop to incorporate an optical drive into a system that is less than one inch thick and weighs less than 2.5 pounds. The following is a quick first take on the Toshiba R500.
Skyfire is a newly announced web browser for mobile devices. Brighthand's Ed Hardy has been testing out a early beta of this application, and he calls it "far and away the best web browser for Windows Mobile I've ever seen."
More details on this application can be found at:
http://www.bright hand.com/default.asp ?newsID=13761
