Looking for something smaller than a netbook but will give you more time to check your mail, read an ebook or two and watch videos? Then it looks like Sharp might have the answers to your prayers with their upcoming PC-Z1 Mobile Internet Tool.

Image Credit: Sharp World
Features:

Quick launching of applications
Long battery time – but this could be affected by your usage. If you watch videos or listen to music a lot, this is going to be lessened.
Touch screen LCD and keyboard. Your input is not limited to the keyboard. I suppose that a …read more

Looking for a way to surf the ‘net on the terminal? Use w3m!
I’ve used w3m time and again because it’s quaint that way. I usually use it as an Emacs macro/extension. It’s nice! I could read webpages while in Emacs, aside from the terminal.
You could look it in Synaptic if you’re using Ubuntu. You could also check it in apt. Or your package manager.
There are really nifty commands from the w3m manual:
w3m [options] [filename|URL] -s — this one is for displaying pages in shift JIS so if you’re viewing a Japanese page, chances …read more