01/20/2010, Quanta Computer is the main name behind Apple and HP, and they are currently working on a smartbook which supposedly comes in an iPhone form factor. This means a 3.5″ touchscreen display alongside the convenience of making voice calls in [...]
01/05/2010, [CES 2010] At CES Unveiled, Marvell let us play with a smartbook reference design apparently called SMART.You can’t tell from the photos, but it is extremely light (it’s almost weird), but don’t worry we got used to it pretty rapidly. [...]
01/03/2010, [CES 2010] Freescale is grabbing the bull by the horns and has come up with its own tablet design that not only shows what Freescale’s technology is capable of, also serve as a reference design for computer makers around the [...]
11/29/2009, The QiGi smartbook seems to look a lot like a MID (mobile internet device), but whatever they call it, it’s still something worth looking into. Sporting a 5-inch 800 x 480 display and 1GB of memory, it doesn’t seem half [...]
11/13/2009, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs has lifted the curtain on their first Snapdragon-powered smartbook which will arrive Stateside today. The hardware is provided by Lenovo while AT&T will be the carrier of choice. With the Qualcomm Snapdragon platform running within, you [...]
11/10/2009, Haleron’s latest 7” MIO smartbook will run on Windows CE 6.0, although this ain’t no speed runner with a VIA ARM 266MHz processor that plods along, aided by a maximum of 256MB RAM, up to 4GB internal memory, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi [...]
11/05/2009, Asus has announced that they will be delaying their recently announced Smartbook from the first quarter to the second of next year. While they did not give any reason for the delay, we are also kept in the dark concerning [...]
10/30/2009, Asus does not want to be left behind in the smartbook race (moving on from smartphones), where their first Android-powered smartbook ought to hit retail shelves by early 2010. Powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip and the Google mobile OS, this [...]
10/20/2009, The Gitex Technology Week 2009 in Dubai has seen the release of the Mangrove smartbook from C-motech, where it comes with a 7″ display (touchscreen, obviously), powered by Qualcomm’s next generation SnapDragon processor that ought to give it more than [...]
10/19/2009, Marvell just launched a family of mobile application processors* called Armada aimed at mobile devices like handheld or portable computers (smarttops). The Family has 4 models named Armada 100, Armada 500, Armada 600 and Armada 1000. As you can guess [...]
08/10/2009, Sony Ericsson doesn’t seem ready to branch out to other hardware markets, although they have been edging towards the personal computing niche with their XPERIA X1 smartphone. Word has it that the handset manufacturer is raring to go on a [...]
06/07/2009, Freescale Semiconductor is hard at work on future possible smartbook designs, where the company has already commissioned half a dozen prototypes to date including the model you see above, boasting a touchscreen display complete with QWERTY-pads that jut out from [...]