smartbooks

Toshiba’s first step into smartbooks – the Android-powered AC100

Published on: 25th June, 2010

The most recent portable launch of Toshiba seems to be as unique as the previous ones, because this is the maker’s first step into smartbooks. The new AC100 is only 0.8 inches thick and it only weighs 1.9 pounds. Despite these, the portable could prove to be more capable than an Intel notebook, thanks to [...]

Compaq Airlife 100 – Hewlett Packard’s first smartbook

Published on: 17th February, 2010

Hewlett Packard has confirmed its first smartbook, the Airlife 100, before the Mobile World Congress. The device resembles to the concept design previously shown at CES and has a 10-inch touchscreen. It drops the x86 in favour of ARM, probably a 1GHz Snapdragon processor. The smartbook will use a 16GB flash drive and its battery [...]

Slate prototypes and possible smartbooks at ASUS

Published on: 27th January, 2010

Chairman Jonney Shih has made public the future plans of ASUS and has predicted a successful development of the company. ASUS is developing slate PCs specially designed for multimedia and web use but will not release them until content becomes accessible enough for the users. The content he referred to included music, videos, games and [...]

ASUS to choose between Android and Chrome for tablets and smartbooks

Published on: 21st January, 2010

A ZDNet report is revealing that the Taiwanese PC manufacturer ASUS is now testing smartbooks that run on both Chrome and Android operating systems and is also thinking to add an ARM-based PC to the Intel-powered Eee PC netbooks. Jonney Shih, ASUS chairman, has mentioned this in a recent interview. He also said that the [...]

Lenovo’s Skylight smartbook kills the competition

Published on: 9th January, 2010

On January 5th, Lenevo entered the smartbook market with their new Skylight. The new device is above many Atom-based computers with its 1GHz Snapdragon processor, attracting a lot of good comments. Skylight uses a 10-inch display and has a battery life of only 10 hours, but if we analyze that weights under 2 pounds and [...]

New Android SMARTBOOK from Notion with Pixel Qi display

Published on: 21st December, 2009

Notion Ink promise to launch on the market the first SMARTBOOK that runs on Android and it will have 10.1-inch Pixel Qi transflective display. It has a TOUCHSCREEN technology and a maximum resolution of 1024×600 pixels with a good readability outside as well as inside. For 1080p HD movies and games the device is equipped [...]

Android-based smartbook from Lenovo

Published on: 30th November, 2009

The demo for a Qualcomm smartbook prototype could have given some more info on the new Lenovo smartbook, available for AT&T, including the OS chosen. Its design seems to be similar to the publicly displayed system of Lenovo. The system runs on a fast 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and could run Android. This shows that [...]

Qualcomm-based smartbook from Lenovo to use AT&T

Published on: 20th November, 2009

Qualcomm has unveiled one of the first smartbooks at its investor conference. The Lenovo design is somewhere between smartphones and netbooks in size and is based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors. It will use AT&T-based Internet access besides Wi-Fi. Other details are unavailable for the moment. However, it is supposed to use a custom Linux interface [...]

NVIDIA Tegra Smartbooks running Google Chrome OS on The Way

Published on: 27th September, 2009

NVIDIA has been confirmed to be working with Google on Tegra-based Smartbooks running Google Chrome OS. The company’s GM of mobile business, Mike Rayfield, stated that NVIDIA expects to see Tegra-based smartphones using Windows Mobile, while Smartbooks or netbooks would use Chrome OS or Windows CE. Tegra is capable of high-definition playback, and its creators [...]

MID Qi Smartbook U1000 Comes with Windows Mobile 6.1

Published on: 22nd September, 2009

The new Windows Mobile based Mobile Internet Device, Qi Smartbook U1000 is a gadget that incorporates a display of five inches and a WVGA resolution of 800×480. The innovative device is powered by a 624MHz that keeps its functioning very smooth. Moreover, regarding connectivity, the new Qi Smartbook U1000 has an integrated Wi-Fi and an [...]