In addition to launching new smartphones and tablets this week, Alcatel OneTouch is unveiling some new smartphone accessories including an inexpensive smartwatch. Engadget reports the watch will sell for just  €99, or about $130, although it’s not clear when it will be hit the streets or what markets it will be available in. The watch has a […]
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Qualcomm developing quad-core ARM chip for Windows 8 laptops
Chip-maker Qualcomm makes low power processors for smartphones and tablets. A few years ago the company also wanted to see its chips in small laptop-like devices it called smartbooks, but that form factor never took off. That could change when Windows 8 hits the streets later this year. Windows 8 will be the first full […]
Asus, Genesi will see your $200 netbook and lower you with a cheaper one
Sure, Asus is making waves with its plans to launch a $200 Eee PC X101 netbook soon. But a company named Genesi has been offering a 10 inch mini-laptop for $199 since February. It’s called the Genesi Efika MX. Now the company is working on a new platform that could be even cheaper. The secret […]
ARM-based notebooks in the works
ARM-based processors have come a long way in the past few years. While the low power chip architecture was once best known for powering relatively slow smartphones and PDAs, we’re now seeing dual and quad-core chips with high performance graphics in modern phones and tablets. Now that Microsoft is planning on making Windows 8 compatible […]
Genesi Efika MX Smartbook price falls to $199
Genesi is giving the Efika MX Smartbook a pretty serious price cut. When the company introduced the ARM-based mini-laptop in September, it was priced at $349. Now you can pick one up for $199. The Efika MX looks like a typical netbook with a 10 inch display, but where most netbooks have an Intel Atom […]
Qualcomm wins trademark battle over the term smartbook… if anybody cares
A few years ago Qualcomm coined the term “smartbook” to describe netbook-like mini-laptops with smartphone-like chips that enabled 3G connectivity, always on internet access, and all-day battery life. Then a company called Smartbook AG, which had been selling laptops in Germany under the Smartbook moniker cried foul and said that Qualcomm was violating its trademark. […]
Shenzhen Firstview keeps the Android netbook flame alive
Last year at CES you couldn’t walk more than a few feet without running into a cheap Chinese netbook with an ARM-based processor running Google Android or Linux. This year, they’re few and far between as companies have largely replaced them with trendier tablets. But I wandered into the Shenzhen Firstview booth this week and […]
Closer look at the Motorola Atrix 4G Webtop
The Motorola Atrix 4G Webtop is an intriguing system that lets you use an Android smartphone as the brains of a thin and light laptop. The Atrix 4G is a smartphone with an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor, while the Webtop is essentially a docking station in the form of an ultralight 11.6 inch […]
Toshiba AC100 hacked to run Ubuntu Linux – video
The Toshiba AC100 is one of the first netbook-style devices to ship with Google Android installed. The operating system is typically installed on smartphones or tablets with touchscreen devices — not computers with keyboards and touchpads. The Toshiba AC100, on the other hand, looks like a netbook, with a 10 inch. 1024 x 600 pixel […]
Toshiba AC100 hacked to run Ubuntu 10.10 RC
Canonical just launched Ubuntu 10.10 RC. Chippy from CarryPad happens to have an NVIDIA Tegra 2 powered Toshiba AC100 smartbook at the moment. See where this is going yet? While the AC100 ships with Google’s Android operating system, the hardware can support other operating systems as well — just not Windows, which isn’t designed to […]