Philippine computer company Red Fox is launching an update to its line of Wizbook netbooks. And while the name conjures up pictures of waterfalls, flowing streams, and OK, urinals, there’s one reason to pay very close attention to this netbook. Maybe. According to the press release, it features Bluetooth 3.0, which would make it the first netbook I’m aware of to support the latest Bluetooth standard. On the other hand, the same press release says that Bluetooth 3.0 can handle transfer speeds up to 480 Mbits/second, while the official Bluetooth wep page says that speeds top out at 24Mbps. So I’m going to take this claim with a grain of salt.

The rest of the specs for the Wizbook N1021i look pretty standard. The Wizbook N1020i features a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, and 10.2 inch display and runs Windows XP Home. It includes 802.11b/g WiFi, a webcam, flash card reader, and a 4600mAh battery and weighs about 2.6 pounds. According to the press release, there’s also an ExpressCard/34 slot, but I’m going to take that with another grain of salt until I actually see a picture of this netbok showing the ExpressCard slot.

Update: The folks at Electronic Pulp got to spend some hands-on time with the netbook, and report that it does indeed come with Bluetooth 3.0 support. They haven’t had a chance to put the wireless transfer speed to the test yet though.

via Electronic Pulp