More info and pics of the previously reported Freescale Smartbook have been announced in the flurry of CES press releases.
Looking to combine the best bits of smartphones and notebooks is this concept design from Freescale. It operates as a regular 7 inch tablet but also comes with a QWERTY keyboard docking station for ease of [...]

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Chipmaker Freescale have put some meat on it’s chip’s bones and come up with their own 7 inch touchscreen Smartbook Tablet.
It’s powered by a system on a chip (SoC) based 1Ghz ARM Cortex A8 design, which runs alongside six co-processors (FPU, DSP, img processing, 2D graphics, 3D graphics and HD video decoder).
The screen comes in [...]

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Causing confusion is the QiGi U1000 Smartbook which is actually a nifty looking 5 inch MID.
It has a 5 inch WVGA touchscreen and runs Windows Mobile 6.1. It’s powered by a 624MHz Marvell PXA310 processor and has 256MB of RAM.
Bells and whistles include a respectable 3.2 megapixel camera, GPS, WiFi, quad band GSM/EDGE connectivity and [...]

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The Chinese QI Smartbook U1000 isn’t so much a smartbook than a pretty nifty looking 5 inch touchscreen MID.
It runs Windows Mobile 6.1 on on a 624MHz CPU and the 5 inch screen’s resolution is 800 x 480.
Also onboard is the vital WiFi capability and also a camera for good measure so you can upload [...]

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