News of Smartbook News & Reviews

DigiTimes is reporting that Lenovo and Toshiba will begin selling smartbooks by year’s end which is a great new for our community.



According to them Toshiba will be releasing their smartbook with Nvidia Tegra and Android OS as we mentioned. It is estimated to be on market this August which appears to be the same as the AC100 that we mentioned a few days back. http://www.smartbooktalk.com/smartbook-news-reviews-f4/toshiba-ac100-smartbook-review-t319.html

It is still unclear if the device will ...

Its interesting to see that Toshiba's new AC100 is their starter model to get into the smartbook space.



Specification :

• 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 250 SoC (Dual Core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor)
• Android 2.1
• 8 hours of battery usage (usage and video playback)
• 7 days of standby time (Wow!!)
• 32GB SSD diskspace
• RAM : 512MB of DDR2 memory
• 802.11n WiFi Optional : 3G data, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
• ...

Lenovo's President Rory Read tells CRN that both the Skylight and the IdeaPad U1 are to be available before the end of the year 2010. We did expect it to have Android instead of the Skylight OS that it was supposed to come out with as Android have got well establish in the mobile computing space.
Details : http://www.smartbooktalk.com/smartbook-news-reviews-f4/lenovo-skylight-smartbook-to-be-shipped-with-google-andriod-t278.html



Having Android as the OS of this device is a good thing as well can ...

ARM CPUs will soon be supported by the Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.7 from July.



The only difference would be that it be equipped with 2D views.

Video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEovlXFKm84

The NEC LifeTouch is a 7 inch Android tablet which has a resolution of 800 x 480 pixel display, it also includes an ARM A8-based CPU. We saw a few pictures coming up but this time we have a video you you must see.



It is much thinner than an iPad but seems to have a smaller hight as well. Although NEC will not market the product to consumers themselves but are expected to ...

It seems that another laptop manufacturers are showing interests towards the Smartbook space as it was spotted by Blogeee that a model has shown up called the Toshiba AC100-114 mini laptop.



It is reported that this smartbook will feature a NVIDIA Tegra process and will run Google Andriod 2.1

Specifications :

• Processor : NVIDIA Tegra T20
• Display: 10.1″ 1024 x 600 pixel screen
• OS: Google Android 2.1
• Memory: 512MB DDR2 RAM
• Storage: 16GB ...

Its a good news because now you will have access to all the apps that have been developed for Andriod. Not all are going to work but I am assure you that many will actually work.



What this means is that the Skylight will be delayed until the new OS is put in. Its however said that we can expect the Lenovo Skylight on the 4th quarter of 2010

You can discuss about Lenovo ...

As I mentiend the topic you could check out an unboxing video of the first smartbook which seems to be getting its way into the market.



As you already know from our previous posts, the Airlife 100 runs on Google Android. Although it has a touchscreen the software is tweaked so you can use the toucpad to navigate.

The device ships without access to the full Google Android Market, but you can surely download ...

As the title sugges CherryPal has released a model with costs only $99 and runs Android OS. The new "Asia" verson has a slow 533MHz ARM A9 processor, 256MB of RAM, 2GB of storage, and 3 USB slots.

Well you do not get much for that low pricing but its still a mini-laptop and you can do a lot with it. A larger versin will be avaialbe with a webcam and would cost around $148. ...

Guys at Androidcentral has revealed a flowchart of the MIDS/Netbooks we can expect from Dell in the near future but in my vision I feel that by MIDs they definitely ment for the smartbooks.



Quote from Andriod Central : "The roadmap we've obtained shows a few new items, including the "Sparta" netbook tablet and "Athens," a 0.9-kilogram "true netbook", both of which appear to fall under the 11-inch category or so, with an ARM ...