Smartbuki - new competitors netbukov

In the market of mobile devices over the past few years has several new classes of devices - ultramobilnye PCs (UMPC), mobile internet devices (MID) and netbuki now compete in the summer already kanuvshim PDAs and Smartphones are still relevant and communicator. In the near future, expect the emergence of another player - so-called smartbuki.

As is clear from the title, smartbuk - this symbiosis smartphone and netbuka. The basis for smartbukov the first time, will be speaking platform Qualcomm Snapdragon, which, by the way, a communicator Toshiba TG01. The platform will include a 1-GHz processor and 3G-chip, so that smartbuki can be used for Internet access virtually anywhere.

States Qualcomm, now more than 15 manufacturers (including Acer, Asus, Foxconn, HTC, LG, Samsung and Toshiba) are working on 30 different devices based on its platform, the first of which will be available already this year. Smartbuki will vary low cost, long time of autonomous work (10 hours) and almost instantaneous loading operating system - it certainly is not a product of Microsoft - the new device will not use it.

Probably smartbukov first prototypes will be demonstrated at Computex, is already starting June 2.