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  It’s no surprise that Dell’s recent leaks show Android playing a pivotal role. However, their association with the OS might expand to smartbooks too. A roadmap slide uncovered by guys at Androidcentral shows that couple of ARM powered smartbooks are destined for some time later this year or early 2011. The smartbooks are named [...]

  Qualcomm’s smartbook range is bound to get another addition by way of HP. Qualcomm has announced that they are currently working with HP to make a smartbook with features – you’ve heard before – like faster processing speeds, 3G, Wi-Fi connectivity, all-day battery life etc. The HP’s offering will run on QSD8250 aka 1GHz [...]

  Remember we snagged a picture of Lenovo’s upcoming smartbook? Well, its got the official treatment as well as the name – Skylight. The Skylight is the first smartbook to go on sale and will be bundled with AT&T’s 3G plans. Skylight takes advantage of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor that has a speedy 1GHz clockspeed as [...]

  Freescale has unveiled an innovative smartbook design that aims to give users the liberty to use it as a touch-only tablet or with an additional dock, get a full-fledged QWERTY keyboard. Freescale says the design is intended for second generation smartbooks with price of or less than $200. Internally, the smartbook will make use [...]

  As expected, at the analyst meet today Qualcomm showed off the first Smartbook made by Lenovo. The details are scarce at the moment but it’s confirmed to have an HD display, longer battery life and full flash support. It will be sold on AT&T.

  Qualcomm’s new Smartbook range will show its face tomorrow, according to Forbes. Forbes spoke to few Qualcomm execs who confirmed that the first Smartbook will be announced tomorrow at the company’s annual analyst meeting in New York. Although Qualcomm didn’t divulge anything substantial related to tomorrow’s Smartbook, they did say something about Snapdragon platform [...]

  Sharp has announced an ARM-based PC-Z1 Netwalker touchscreen netbook in the Japanese market. In fact MID would be an apt tag since it sits nicely between the netbook and mobile phone nomenclature. Anyways, the small PC-Z1 is powered by Freescale’s Cortex-A8 based i.MX515 SoC and features include a 5-inch touchscreen display (1024×600), Ubuntu 9.0.4 [...]

  This is straight off the rumorville and as most of the times Digitimes is the first to hear those whispers. Citing Taiwan-based handset makers, they’re reporting that in addition to the Intel-based Booklet 3G, Nokia is also planning to offer an ARM-based netbook better known as smartbooks. Compal Electronics and Foxconn are tipped to [...]

  A new rumor surfaced yesterday claiming Sony Ericsson to be preparing a Smartbook. The claim comes from a Taiwanese source who says Sony Ericsson is preparing the device and will “enter the market soon”. However, as far as specs are concerned the source doesn’t seem to be sure to tell if it will be [...]

  Windows OS predominantly supports x86 architecture, so a denial from Microsoft to not support ARM processor based Smartbooks is not surprising. Steve Guggenheimer at the Computex said “For people who want a PC, albeit a different chipset, we don’t think those will work very well. We sort of learnt in the last year that [...]

  Freescale Semiconductor is upbeat about ARM’s launch of Snapdragon for Smartbooks and the former has teamed up with Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) to create some conceptual smartbooks that will also be exhibited at the Computex. Smartbooks are powered by ARM based processors which boast an all day battery life, instant-on and [...]

  UPDATE: Video of Android running Snapdragon powered Eee PC added below. Qualcomm at the Computex presscon unveiled a 45nm based QSD8650A Snapdragon chipset. This SoC meant for smartphones and smartbooks (netbooks) advances over the previous Snapdragon chipsets and features a processor clocking at 1.3GHz, UMTS and CDMA 3G connectivity, GPS, Wi-Fi, hi-def video recording [...]