Netbook Nation: IDF Beijing 2011 Round Up

http://www.netbooknews.com If you want the inside scoop on what went on at IDF Beijing 2011 you've come to the right place. Netbook News was the only English speaking blog at the Chinese conference. So what went on? We'll we've got a video showing you our favorite products and announcements below, but if you perfer reading, I'll spell it out for you. Cedartrail Intel's latest Netbook platform was launched. No details on performance gains, but three new features were added: Intel Wireless Streaming, Intel Music and Wireless file sharing. During the Day 1 Keynote we were able to grab a video of the on stage demo in case you're curious. Oak Trail was officially announced with tablets hitting the streets in May. So far all the tablets are 10.1 inches and about 10mm thick. Nothing to get too excited about as we have yet to see what kind of battery life we might be getting. Some tablet manufactures like Evolve Three came out with a unique design integrating a kick stand and keyboard into the hard cover. We've included a hands on in the Netbook Nation video if you're keen to grab a look. Taking a look at gaming hardware there was only one notable announcement and that was by Razer who is bringing the Switchblade, the most innovative Oak Trail device to date to the Chinese market first. And Tencent, China's largest ISV is going to be providing the installed gaming user base! Razer and Tencent are bring four immensely popular online games with roughly 600 million monthly gamers to mobile. Razer is going to focus optimization of the Switchblade on League of Legends as well as Dungeon & Fighter, Crossfire and QQ Speed. Tencent sees 130 million active monthly users between the four games and views Oak Trail as the mobile computing platform able to deliver a powerful gaming experience. Though the Switchblade is currently running Windows 7, both Tencent and Razer concluded that they were interesting in the possibility of delivering MeeGo on the device.