Chinese companies are known for striving R & D and imitation of high end technology of the west. You can also find Sony Vio G and U series netbooks varying from 5 inches to 7 inches featuring Intel Atom processor and 1GB ram costing somewhere around Rs 23000. There are many mid in UMPC category. Umid M1 and Umid M5 are non chinese devices and one of the best. These devices may not be be ever available in India. People want a laptop or pc just to store non-removeable multimedia files. How many home users use a pc as a hard core browsing machine? My brother has Dell-Lenovo dealership, he has only sold 2 netbooks in two years. I have full infrastucture of netbooks, at home at hospital and clinic. I donr need a dvd rom drive.
PocketSurfer 3 is also a good mobile internet device, without an OS, no storage of files, only bookmarks. It works on a proxy webgate by Datawind Inc. of UK. It claims to open ant webpage in 7 seconds. Browsing time is 5 hours. Good screen and backlit keypad. It is based on Airtel and Tata networks in india. Its now costing a reduced rate if Rs 9000. Incidently, PocketSurfer has a good success in most countries, the company founder an Indian, that never saw market in home country India.
