Onkyo Japan Announces Windows 7-Powered “Slate PC”

Onkyo Japan has been releasing quite a few Windows-powered tablets in the past months, and the company yesterday announced [JP] yet another model. The TW2A-A25Z7CK features Windows 7 Home Premium as the OS (32 bit), and comes with a stylus, a stand/case, and a Bluetooth keyboard.

Onkyo’s so-called Slate PC has the following specs:

• 10.1-inch LCD screen with 1,024×600 resolution
• Atom Z670 CPU (1.50 GHz)
• Intel SM35 Express chip set
• 2GB memory
• 32GB SSD
• IEEE 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi
• Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
• two USB ports, a microSD slot
• 1.3MP web cam
• around 6 hours battery life
• size: 267×173×15.5mm, weight: 892g

Onkyo plans to start selling the Slate PC in Japan on December 2 with an open price model (“over US$780″).

Onkyo Japan Announces Windows 7-Powered “Slate PC”

Onkyo Japan has been releasing quite a few Windows-powered tablets in the past months, and the company yesterday announced [JP] yet another model. The TW2A-A25Z7CK features Windows 7 Home Premium as the OS (32 bit), and comes with a stylus, a stand/case, and a Bluetooth keyboard.

Onkyo’s so-called Slate PC has the following specs:

• 10.1-inch LCD screen with 1,024×600 resolution
• Atom Z670 CPU (1.50 GHz)
• Intel SM35 Express chip set
• 2GB memory
• 32GB SSD
• IEEE 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi
• Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
• two USB ports, a microSD slot
• 1.3MP web cam
• around 6 hours battery life
• size: 267×173×15.5mm, weight: 892g

Onkyo plans to start selling the Slate PC in Japan on December 2 with an open price model (“over US$780″).

Pushpins Relaunches As Full-Featured Grocery Shopping App

Today, Pushpins, the mobile app for saving on groceries, is relaunching as Pushpins 2.0, now a fully featured grocery shopping assistant. Previously, the app was focused only on delivering savings in the form of digital coupons and rewards to users who scanned UPC barcodes at the grocery store. With the update, the app offers everything a grocery shopper needs, including digital shopping lists, coupons, nutritional information and even access to your shopping history.

Pushpins plays in a crowded but popular, space: mobile shopping lists. I’ve personally tried several of these apps myself, in hopes of finding a favorite. Grocery IQ, ZipList, AisleMapper, Cozi and many others have all spent time on my homescreen over the years.

Although I can’t personally benefit from it (thanks a lot, Publix), one of Pushpins’ best features is its integration with the store savings cards from many brand-name grocery store chains like Safeway, ShopRite, Lowes Foods, Shop n’ Save, Vons, Tom Thumb, Carrs, Randalls, Dominick’s, Pavilions, Foodtown, Giant Ealge and others. When you clip the digital coupons using the app, those savings are instantly loaded onto your grocery store loyalty card for use at checkout.

In the new app, Pushpins also offers a smart shopping list that can intelligently suggest coupons for the items on your list. For example, if you add “Chex Cereal,” the app won’t just tell you if the cereal is on sale – it can tell you if there’s a coupon for milk, too. In addition, you can sort products by aisle, view nutritional info and access a history of your past purchases and savings via the shopping history feature which can be printed out as a digital receipt.

The updated app is out now in iTunes here.

4.3-Inch Nokia Lumia 900 Gets Leaked By Nokia (Video)

It’s only been a couple weeks since Nokia debuted their first Windows Phones, but today we’re getting something a little less official. The Nokia Lumia 900 has found its way to YouTube thanks to none other than Nokia themselves. Apparently the Finnish phone maker posted a video to court developers, promising them the combination of “Nokia’s stunning hardware” and “a dynamic Microsoft OS.”

The video has since been pulled (as expected), but the folks over at All About Phones were clever enough to download and re-upload the video to YouTube for all to enjoy.

We’re just a tad short on specs, but we do know this will be a 4.3-inch monster — about the same size as Samsung’s Windows-powered Focus S. On the design front, however, it seems Nokia is pulling more from their own Lumia design dress with a hint of Xperia Play mixed in there.

When we’ll actually see the phone in any official sense is still a bit of a mystery. There are two probable options: The Lumia 900 (codenamed Ace) will either show its face at CES in early January, or at Mobile World Congress in February. We’ll be at both events with our eyes peeled so stay tuned if this has piqued your interest.

Slingbox Facebook App Goes Live, Isn’t Great At Sharing

Slingbox has made the act of watching your television from anywhere stupendously easy over the years, and now the company has added yet another way to catch up on Community on the go: now you can watch from your Facebook account.

That’s right, if their Android, iOS, PC, and Mac clients weren’t enough to keep you connected, Slingbox has recently released their new SlingPlayer Facebook app. Not every Sling fan will be able to partake, though: the SlingPlayer Facebook app only works if you have a PRO-HD or SOLO unit running the latest firmware update.

While cool, the Facebook app’s utility is a bit suspect considering users can already access their Slingbox’s streams from the Sling website. It could potentially see use in the workplace (though I’m sure none of our readers would ever do that) where IT departments can blacklist certain sites, but if that’s the case then they’re probably filtering Facebook out too.

The app’s social features are pretty limited too; users can post potentially TV-related status updates from within the app, but that’s about it. Slingbox promises to bulk up their app’s social functions in the future, so we’ll keep our ears to the ground for any new developments. For now, current Slingbox users can get cracking by clicking right here.

[via @davezatz]