The squishy beanbad gadget Chumby is slated to arrive in Australia after quite some time being US-centric. If you remember, Chumby is that soft-bodied widget-driven device with a touch screen panel that could be used to check the weather and listen to Internet radio among many other functions.

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Yep, TechCrunch is planning to build a very simple web tablet that’ll set consumers back a mere US$200. It isn’t exactly a groundbreaking design no one’s ever thought of before (there were even people commenting that they had envisaged something similar long, long ago), but if TechCrunch can make it happen, then that’ll be fantastic.

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With the acquisition of Trolltech, perhaps we all were already unconsciously aware that Nokia releasing Linux-based handsets is just a matter of time. And besides, Nokia already rolled out a Linux-based tablet before. It’s just that I’m so used to Nokia systems carrying Symbian platforms that this took me by surprise.

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