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It seems that Philips will found new factories in Brazil during December, the country that will be the first where this company will manufacture and sell its notebooks, with desktop computers to follow after.

Philips goal is to conquer 10% of the market until 2010.

The first two models to break the ice in Brazil will be a 11-inch and a 13-inch notebook with magnesium alloy housing.
The smaller model will be powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo ULV U2400 with 1066 MHz, integrating 1GB of RAM, 120 GB HDD, and a Dual Layer Burner. This model will cost approximately $2,500.



The 13-inch model is more powerful in various aspects, first it will run on an Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 with 2.0 GHz and will feature 2GB of RAM, 120 GB HDD and the Dual Layer burner.
It will be priced at around $2,200.

There is no info related to the products names but Philips specified that these two are designed only for the Brazilian market.

Philips has just launched the most useful utility for the medical sector, a tablet PC called CliniScape, designed by Intel Digital Health Group, which allows instant access to patient’s condition in any situation.



CliniScape is equipped with complicated technologies to allow doctors to find in real-time details about their patients such as medication data or blood containers.
They can write reports, validate blood transfusions and capture vital signs among other things.



It incorporates Bar Code scanner technology and Radio-frequency identification (RFID), the latter being an automatic identification method based on storing and remotely retrieving data.



CliniScape has an ergonomic design, an intuitive interface, and features a large 10.4-inch XGA touchscreen, a Core Solo processor, 1GB of RAM memory, 60GB disk space, Bluetooth, USB port, a 2MP camera, and a battery life of up to 3.5 hours.

The medical sector will be able to obtain such devices in spring 2008.