Qualcomm unveils 'smartbook' Linux netbooks
Blog Qualcomm has announced a major push into the netbook market — although the chipmaker is calling the devices 'smartbooks' in a bid to pitch them between smartphones and notebooks. Pineda said smartbooks would have battery lives of up to eight hours...
[May 28, 2009, 17:31]
Freescale shows off 'smartbook' prototypes
News Smartbooks are Linux-driven mobile internet devices that use chipsets based on Cortex chip designs from ARM, a company best known for its smartphone chip architecture. Smartbooks "fill the gap between smaller-screened smartphones and traditional...
[June 2, 2009, 13:42]
Future of netbooks revealed at Computex
News Smartbooks', as described by companies such as Qualcomm, seem to be this year's netbook. While Snapdragon competitor Freescale Semiconductor, which makes an ARM-based iMX515 processor, predicts hybrid smartbooks that will look like tablets, others...
[June 4, 2009, 10:11]
Qualcomm lines up 30 Snapdragon gadgets
News These are hybrid laptop-cum-smartphone devices that Qualcomm has dubbed 'smartbooks'. The Snapdragon chipset can also be used for smartphones as well as smartbooks, however, and both types of hardware are now under development, according to Qualcomm.
[June 1, 2009, 8:20]
ARM opens resource centre for Android devs
News Conversely, ARM's latest Cortex A-series designs are set to make the leap from smartphones into netbooks or, as ARM calls cheap notebooks based on its architecture, 'smartbooks'. According to Coombs, ARM-based smartphones and smartbooks will have...
[November 17, 2009, 11:03]
Qualcomm targets open source with new subsidiary
News Qualcomm is currently pushing its Snapdragon 3G chipset for mobile devices including smartphones and hybrid laptop/smartphone devices the company calls "smartbooks". Qualcomm has reinforced its commitment to open-source software with the creation...
[October 28, 2009, 15:21]
Gartner: ARM-based devices gaining momentum
News ARM-based smartbooks have also emerged as another cheap form factor alongside mini-notebooks. The x86 architecture's dominance in the PC industry will be significantly challenged as low-cost computers take a bigger footprint in the market...
[October 1, 2009, 13:12]
PC World pulls Linux netbooks from stores
News Carr also pointed out that, while there was a great deal of buzz around Windows 7, this week's Computex show in Taiwan included many manufacturers showing off new Linux-based netbooks and smartbooks. PC World, the UK's biggest computing retailer...
[June 3, 2009, 13:32]
Ion pleases the eye and kills off the netbook
Blog ARM-based 'smartbooks' will (hopefully) appear, cutting back on the PC-like functionality of the netbook but retaining the video playback smarts that such devices need — there's your media-consumption device right there, er, Intel.
[November 23, 2009, 12:05]
