Chip maker Qualcomm has been showing off prototype netbooks or smartbooks using the company’s Snapdragon platform for about a year. But there’s not a single Snapdragon powered smartbook available on the market… yet. Forbes is reporting that Qualcomm plans to announce the first smartbook using its technology during an analyst meeting in New York tomorrow. […]
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Is HP working on a Qualcomm-powered smartbook?
Maybe. Is this 7 inch smartbook on display at a Chinese tradeshow it? Probably not. I just don’t see HP coming out with a device with an ugly bezel that big. But the folks at Mobile 163 say that a Qualcomm Booth Rep booth rep at a trade show in China said what you’re looking […]
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Olive, Tata bring X107H broadband-enabled netbook to India
Netbooks with integrated 3G broadband wireless modules are old hat in Europe and Asia. But they’re still a bit of a rarity in India, where Olive Telecommunication and Tata Teleservices have launched the X107H, a rather standard netbook in all respects except the fact that it packs an EV-DO modem. The X107H has a 1.6GHz […]
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Qualcomm responds to “smartbook” trademark claim
Over the past few days, the battle over the term “smartbook” has heated up a bit. A few months ago chip-maker Qualcomm started using the term to describe low power, 3G-enabled mini-laptops using ARM-based processors like Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipset. But a German company called Smartbook is working to protect the term, and a German court […]
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Qualcomm coins the term Smartbook for netbook/smartphone mashup
It’s no secret that chip maker Qualcomm has been working on low power processors for mini-laptops for a while now. The company, which is best known for developing cellphone processors, has been demonstrating netbook prototypes at trade shows since late 2008. Today Qualcomm upped its game by introducing a whole new term: Smartbook. The idea […]
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Industry predictions: Netbook shipments to quadruple, could outsell noteboks
There’s no doubt that netbooks represent the fastest growing segment of the PC industry today. And I expect them to become even bigger over the next few years. 12 months ago, almost nobody knew what a netbook was, but today you can find them in a number of retail stores, order them from most computer […]
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Asus considers Qualcomm powered netbooks
Asus has slapped an Intel chip in every computer in the Eee PC lineup to date. The original Eee PC 701 had an Intel Celeron processor, and more recent models have had Intel Atom N270 and Atom N280 chips. But DigiTimes reports that the company is eyeing Qualcomm’s low power platform for upcoming products. No […]
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Qualcomm shows Windows CE-based handheld, reminiscent of HP Jornada
Chip maker Qualcomm has been showing off netbook prototypes built around the company’s Snapdragon chipset for a few months now. Qualcomm’s expertise is in making chips for cellphones, but the new Snapdragon platform should be able to handle basic computing tasks for netbook-style devices, including web browsing and multimedia playback. You won’t be able to […]
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Qualcomm Snapdragon prototype – Video
Qualcomm is continuing to show off its new Snapdragon CPU, and last night I got to play with a prototype touchscreen tablet-style netbook the company is using to demonstrate the chip’s capabilities. The device in the pictures is just a prototype and may never actually come to market. But it was a working prototype, so […]
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Qualcomm Snapdragon platform to power Acer, Asus and Toshiba devices
Covering the netbook space, I read a lot about Intel, VIA, and AMD, and ARM processors. But another company, Qualcomm is building a platform, that it says will be ideal for netbooks and other low power devices. A few weeks ago we got a glimpse of a few prototype netbooks based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon […]