HP Snapdragon Smartbook exposed – made by Qualcomm

At an event in China, PT & Network Comm China 2009, Qualcomm displayed an 7-inch snapdragon smartbook which will be sold by HP, perhaps in few months from now. This smartboook runs Linux and has HSDPA radio so that you can always remain connected wherever you go. It has an antenna which should increase the signal, if extended.

Snapdragon, Qualcomm’s 1GHz processor for mobile devices should be mighty fast on this Linux machine. Nothing is known is about its and availability

Hummingbird – ‘Another’ 1GHz Smartphone processor for the Need For Speed!

Most of our readers must be well acquainted with the 1GHz Qualcomm processor known as Snapdragon that set the mobile world on fire as it was the fastest smartphone processor till date. Samsung is now joining the ARM Race by unveiling their first 1GHz processor meant for mobile devices – Hummingbird processor.

Some features of the upcoming Hummingbird processor:

• Modifiable L2 memory cache
• Delivers 2000 DMIPS at 1 GHz
• Features an ARM NEON multimedia extension
• Less Power consumption
• Data & instruction cache of 32KB
• High operating clock performance

It may be that Samsung will be supplying this 1GHz processor for the iPhone 4G (which will be released in 2010) although we would love to see this implemented in MIDs

Norh Tec’s Gecko Edubook to debut at $200 – runs on NiMH batteries

The new Gecko Edubook from Norh Tec is all set for debut at Computex 2009, with a reduced price tag of $200. Primarily, targeted at children, the netbook sports these features:

• 8.9-inch widescreen
• 1024 x 768 LED backlit display
• internal as well as external USB
• standard AA NiMH rechargeable batteries
• four hours of battery life on eight NiMH AA batteries or six hours if Li-on cells are used
• no AC to DC adapter required
• WiFi (optional)

All that’s possible thanks to a new architecture based on an Xcore86 system on a chip, offering a 1GHz processor and power consumption of just 1.2 watts. I’m personally impressed by its power consumption, but if you spend $50 or so, you will able to get yourself some nice EEE or Aspire One with wifi built-in too. Also, do not forget the technology and brand value

1GHz Marvell processor for mobile devices – This had to happen!

It is no doubt that Marvell processors have proved themselves as the best mobile processors so far. A couple of days back, when we compared the Marvell processors with the Qualcomm processors, the Qualcomm was outbeaten not closely, but by large numbers. The comparison was first done with the ASUS P552W, which comes with a [...]