Smartbooks: the alternative to netbooks

Written By Keza on Sabtu, 28 Mei 2011 | 13.03

Everyone lover of technology and new trends in regard to electronic equipment, was extremely surprised at the recent Mobile World Congress, during which he was presented the first prototype of the so-called Smartbook, AirLife Compaq model 100 , which is advanced as a hybrid between netbooks and smartphones.

One of the main characteristics of this new equipment is that it has a really similar to the popular netbooks, but with the difference that includes a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip, they are usually come up in a variety of mobile phone models range high, especially in lines of smartphones.

The main idea of ​​the development of this team has been to the inevitable evolution of the netbooks, which are expected to achieve to corner the market in the coming years. At least that is the wish of the company Qualcomm, since according to statements by Luis Pineda, SVP of marketing for the company, it is estimated that smartbooks "cannibalize the market for netbooks."

Among the major components including the computer, which will spread Snapdragon processor, which will allow speeds of 1.5 Ghz, and even offer the ability to play high-definition video, i.e. 1080.

Moreover, among the benefits available to the team, highlighting its connectivity, including GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, USB, and of course slot for microSD memory cards for expanding internal memory of 16 GB, and tend The most famous include smartphones on the market today.

In addition, these mini notebooks provide users the opportunity to work through voice capabilities to achieve common tasks easier by the users in the use smartbook laptop.

In terms of size, these new devices will have similar dimensions to those of the current netbooks, which will feature 10-inch touch-sensitive, i.e. multitouch, which will be accompanied by a full QWERTY keyboard with touchpad.

With regard to autonomy, the team can offer up to 12 hours operation, which will work wirelessly with it, and it also only weighs less than a kilogram.

Regardless of the physical construction and components that will give life to smartbooks, one of the highlights of this equipment is that it will include the Google Android operating system.

Undoubtedly, this represents one of the great advantages of smartbooks, as we know the Android OS is an operating system created for mobile devices more stable, powerful and configurable today.

This is why Android software has been chosen by several cell phone manufacturers such as Motorola, for their series Milestone, Google, for its new Nexus One, Samsung, for its line Spica, and a lot of teams HTC signature.

Notably, it is expected that the month of May this year, landed in different parts of the world these novel smartbooks, even to the markets of Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, through the mobile phone carrier Movistar.


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