Samsung has announced a new netbook targeted at children in the South Korean market. The NC110-Pororo is inspired by an animated cartoon series – Pororo the Little Penguin and comes with the characters etched onto the display lid.

In addition to the trendy design, the netbook is pre-loaded with episodes of Pororo the Little Penguin, movie, puzzle and a coloring game.

On the hardware front, NC110-Pororo is equipped with Intel’s 2nd generation dual-core Atom processor, 10.1-inch display, Wi-Fi, HDMI and more.

The netbook will go on sale in South Korea from February 6 for 509,000 won ($452).

UPDATE: Samsung-spokesperson, Nam Ki-yung confirmed by saying “no change has been made to our netbook sales strategy and will continue production and sales of our netbooks.”

French site, Blogeee has published an interesting piece of information that claims Samsung to move out from the netbook market (10.1-inch) next year. Samsung apparently sent an email to its partners saying that they’ll stop making the 10.1-inch devices in Q1 2012 and rather concentrate on making ultraportable and ultrabook (11.6-inch and 12-inch) in 2012.

Samsung in the past have created some decent netbooks, including a solar-powered NC215 netbook.

After releasing NC215 in few regions, Samsung has announced the solar netbook for its domestic market. Slated to go on sale from August 23, the 10.1-inch netbook sports a solar panel on the display lid that allows laptop charging via solar energy. Charging for two hours in the sun (approx. 87,000 lux) will give a run time of about an hour. Needless to say, the netbook’s 6-cell battery can be charged via the regular AC adapter as well that gives a battery life of up to 14 hours.

The TCO-certified netbook includes Intel’s Atom processor, 1GB RAM, Intel graphics support, webcam, SD card slot, Fast Start, sleep-and-charge USB port and Ethernet jack.

It will sell for 599,000 won.

Samsung has announced the launch of its new netbook for the Indian market. The N100 netbook is said to be inspired from Samsung’s bestseller N150P in terms of quality, durability and mobility. The 1.03kg netbook chassis is equipped with a scratch-resistant Duracase and sports a 10.1-inch LED WSVGA (1024×600) display with anti-reflective screen.

Peculiar thing about this netbook is the integration of MeeGo OS. However, Samsung will also sell the netbook pre-loaded with free DOS or Windows 7.

Rounding up the specs are 1.33GHz Intel Atom N435 CPU, 1GB RAM, 250GB HDD, Intel GMA 3150 and more.

N100 is priced at Rs. 12,290.

Samsung has announced a new netbook for the Indian market. The NC110 is Samsung’s first 3G-enabled netbook in India and will be sold exclusively at Croma retail stores.

The 1.18kg netbook is powered by an Intel processor and comes pre-loaded with Windows 7 Starter OS. The netbook features a 10.1-inch non-reflective screen, a chiclet keyboard, Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n and a 6600mAh battery that gives up to 10 hours of battery life.

NC110 also comes with other features like Fast Start that wakes up the netbook almost instantaneously from the sleep mode and Sleep-and-charge USB that can charge USB devices even when the netbook is sleeping or turned off.

The NC110 is priced at Rs. 21,500.

Samsung’s NC215S solar netbook will reach US shores next month. Samsung has confirmed to Liliputing that the solar netbook will be launched in early July in United States carrying a price tag of $399. Americans will get the 10.1-inch netbook with Intel’s Atom N570 dual core processor and 1GB of RAM. Rest of the features are expected to be the same as the African variant.

The NC215S’ display lid is sports a solar panel at the back that enables an hour of battery life for about 2 hours of charging under sunlight. The overall battery life of the netbook exceeds to more than 14 hours.

After announcing the NC215S solar netbook for the African market, Samsung has announced the 10-inch netbook in Russia. The back of the notebook lid is covered with the solar panel that gives an hour of battery life after charging for two in the sun. Additionally, the netbook is equipped with PowerPlus battery technology that allows the 6-cell battery to give about 14 hours of battery life on a full charge.

As for other features, the netbook comes with Intel’s Atom N570 or N455 processors, 10.1-inch (1024×600) Superbright LED screen with anti-reflective coating, 1GB RAM, integrated Intel graphics, USB port with sleep-and-charge function, webcam, SD card slot and Ethernet jack.

The NC215S is expected to arrive in August carrying a price tag of 13,999 rubles.

Samsung unveiled a solar netbook at the Samsung Forum in Kenya yesterday. Details are pretty slim right now but the NC215S will take advantage of the solar power to enable African users work in electricity stricken areas.

Other details known so far is that the netbook will arrive in Africa in july for about $300.

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Details of Samsung’s first Chrome OS netbook has surfaced on Chrome OS’ code website. The netbook is codenamed as Alex and will be powered by Intel’s 1.5GHz Atom N550 CPU with 2GB RAM and unknown capacity of SanDisk SSD.

The netbook will have a display supporting a resolution of 1280×800 pixels and feature 3G support, Synaptics TouchPad, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, webcam and Bluetooth.

No idea on the availability but you can expect some details to come out at Google I/O next month.

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The NF210 from the NF Series is the first netbook from Samsung to be powered by an Intel Atom dual-core processor. The netbooks features N550 CPU clocked at 1.5GHz, Windows 7 OS, 10.1-inch anti-glare LED backlit display, 2GB RAM, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0, SRS 3D sound support, 3 USB 2.0 ports, Fast Start to start the netbook quickly and a 6-cell battery claiming to give up to 10.5 hours. The NF210 will sell for Rs. 22,990.

The SF510 is a full-fledged notebook that comes with option of Intel Core i3 or i5 processors, 15.6-inch LED backlit HD screen, 4GB RAM, 1GB Nvidia GPU, HDMI, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, integrated webcam, card reader, spill proof keyboard with numeric keypad and features like Fast Start and Allshare. The SF510 has been priced at Rs. 55,490.