News of Smartbook News & Reviews

Guys over at Dell Blog compiled the Chrome OS version for Dell Mini 10v.

The build is an USB version so it is work giving it a shot. Something interesting to look into this build is that wifi support has been added to this build.



For Details visit the blog : http://en.community.dell.com/blogs/dire ... lable.aspx

And download the OS from : http://www.netbookfiles.com/2887/chrome ... -mini-10v/ ...

Well it is not actually ture!! But it could happen that we receive very cheap Smartbooks.

According to a Linux Expert Glyn Moody thinks that maybe when Google is ready with the Chrome OS they might simply give away free Netbooks or Smartbooks to customers in return of Advertisements being displayed all around the Space.

Maybe It might happen, but I dont think it would be a wise decision for providing such services with Smartbooks ...

A 10-inch smartbook from Pegatron was introduced at the Connected Community Technical Symposium this Friday. As mentioned at Shanzai it will run a Linux Ubuntu system powered the bhe ARM based processor.

GM Chou Biao Sheng of Pegatron pointed out two very significant informations :

• Starting Supplying Smartbooks in the 1st Quarter of 2009
• Price Less than $200

Details are not available as much, but wow a 10-inch mobile device for less than $200 ...

As soon as Google introduced the source code for their Chrome OS one of the engineers @ http://www.gdgt.com compiled the source to develop an image of VMWare.



You can download the Image from : http://gdgt.com/google/chrome-os/download/

After you download it you must :

• Open VMware and create a new virtual machine. One of the options will be to use an "existing virtual ...

At an event at Mountain View, Calif., HQ Google representatives on Thursday morning demonstrated the Chrome OS, the new Operating system which would be used mostly for Netbooks as well as smartbooks.

Those of you who are interested on the Source Code can start navigation from here : http://src.chromium.org/

So what is this Google Chrome OS?
- Recently we have seen that people stay in from of thier web ...

After the first Smartbooks was shown to the world on 12th Nov 2009 there are still many questions on this new device. So what is this Snapdragon platform?

Here is a breakdown of what to expect from the Snapdragon platform.

• Optimized power management for all-day battery life
• Ubiquitous, real-time connectivity
• Rich Internet browsing experience
• Access to real-time, personalized and location-aware content
• Streaming and playback of locally stored high-definition video content
• High performance 3D UIs, ...

Qualcomm shows off its first ever Smartbook manufactured by Lenovo and it will use AT&T as carrier.

The Qualcomm Snapdragon platform comes with low power ARM-based CPU with wireless features and graphics with 720p HD video capabilities. This platform is said to be available for smartphones as well as smartbooks.

Smartbooks might easily topple Netbooks, and what makes it interesting is that it will have all the features of a mobile device and also incorporate ...