Posts Tagged ‘NS20’

We first saw Foxconn’s NS20 and NS24 netbooks last month.  Today, these devices made another appearance on the FCC, with the NS20 appearing in red, and the NS24 showing up with an orange paint job.

Foxconn doesn’t reveal many specs for the NS20 or NS24, but we do know both netbooks will have a webcam, multicard reader, 3 USB ports (no HDMI, however), 3G and WiFi.

More interestingly, the NS20 and NS24 will run the Linux-based FoxMC operating system (below).  FoxMC provides core media, web browsing and productivity apps, and can be used either as a primary OS or as a fast boot OS that complements Windows XP.

We saw pictures of Foxconn’s FoxOS operating system last month, and we’re not sure exactly what the company plans to do with these various operating systems.  We’d suspect that these Linux operating systems can be re-branded, allowing Foxconn’s OEM partners to customize the OS along with Foxconn netbooks.

A couple more netbooks from Foxconn, the NS20 and NS24, passed through the FCC today.  Like the SZ901P netbook, which Foxconn passed through the FCC yesterday, these two netbooks run on Foxconn’s Linux-based FoxOS with Windows XP options available as well.

We don’t know much about these netbooks except that they have 802.11 b/g/n WiFi and a CCD webcam.  This seems like another stock netbook design from Foxconn that will be rebranded before it reaches the States.