PC Magazine on Smartbooks

Tim Bajarin of PC Magazine has published an excellent article covering the smartbook device concept being pushed by Qualcomm and its telecomm partners.

While netbooks are best seen as small, inexpensive, secondary notebooks, smartbooks are being marketed as instant-on, always-connected devices – providing users with quick and easy access to applications and content on the net.

More importantly, smartbooks will include from the get-go embedded 3G modems – making these devices ideal targets of mobile carriers. As the smartphone market begins to saturate, mobile carriers are looking for new devices to bundle mobile broadband service. We’ve seen this with netbook models and you can be sure the carriers are salivating at the thought of smartbooks.

The real question is – will a consumer opt for a smartbook device running a non-x86 processor and a non-Windows OS? Only time will tell ..

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August 3rd, 2009 at 2:49 am

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More importantly, smartbooks will include from the get-go embedded 3G modems – making these devices ideal targets of mobile carriers. As the smartphone market begins to saturate, mobile carriers are looking for new devices to bundle mobile broadband service. We’ve seen this with netbook models and you can be sure the carriers are salivating at the thought of smartbooks.

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