It appears that the new Lenovo Skylight is definately in the smartbook category. As before its not as powerful as a netbook but more powerful than your smartphone.

The Lenovo Skylight uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor which runs at 1 GHz, and uses a chip thats more or less the same as the ones in the LG Expo and the HTC HD2. Netbooks tend to use the new Intel Atom N450, but, it appears that the smartbooks are going to use more mobile phone parts than laptop or netbook parts. In turn this will keep them much lighter and portable

The Skylight also runs a Linux operating system and not Windows 7, meaning the processesor is not going to be worked too hard, plus, with the Amazon MP3 store and Roxio’s CinemaNow service the Skylight still has some good web facilities on board, allowing you to watch videos and download.

It is thought that the Lenovo Skylight will also be able to run HD content at 720p with its 1280 x 720p resolution. On top of all this the smartbook comes with a flash memory of 20GB, two USB ports and a 1.3-megapixel camera. With planned shipping to take place around April in the US, it shouldn’t be long till we see one over in the UK. The only unfortunate thing is the price, it is thought they will be available for $499.

It sounds far fetched and a little ridiculous, but could this be the future. It appears Google may be planning on building some bare bones netboooks or smartbook. Because Chrome OS is free and the data it creates is stored virtually, it may be a possibility.

It seems this may be on the back of google recently buying Teracent, a company whos speciality is personal advertising. It might be that they could use this business to cover any losses they may incur.

As it is in googles interest to try and get as many people as possible browing the internet the idea may not be as far fetched as originally thought.

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This little smartbook from Sharp has only just been released but thanks to pocketables there are a number of great looking shots of it. Its not yet available in the UK, but we can let you know that it comes with a 5 inch WSVGA touchscreen, 800MHz ARM Cortex A8-based Freescale CPU, a six row keyboard an optical mouse and buttons.

Check back later for additional reviews once we manage to get our own version.

Welcome to the Qi Smartbook U1000, some would disagree that is actually a smartbook, but we think it is. It has a windows mobile MID and enjoys 800×480 resolution on a 5 inch screen. As well as these features it will also provide a substantial 624MHz processor.

This should help to keep everything moving at a speed you are used to. But, unfortunatley at the moment that is pretty much all the information we have on the U1000, but check back later for further updates.

At the moment Intel have almost 94% of the netbook (partially due the the popular Samsung NC 10 netbook market and smartbook market. But, apparently, by 2012, according to Robert Castellano of The Information Network ARM will have gained significant ground on Intel and could potentially own 55% of the market.

Currently, there are approximately 22.1 million Intel units powering Netbooks. Arm curently powers 1.4 million smartbooks. Over the next few years these figurs will become ever closer and then by 2012 Arm may have the majority share with Intel shiiping 43.2 million netbooks and ARM 52.9 million smartbook units. Surely this shows the potential of the smartbook market and how, over time, it may begin to take over this new market. We certainly hope so.

Is this what we will be seeing from smartbooks when they eventually arrive. The Sony Vaoi P series is surely the size of future smartbooks. This one can just about fit into your back pocket, certainly that makes it ultra portable.

This mobile computer is definately sleek and stylish – it only weighs a mere 638 grams. It comes with 3G technology, which means you are always connected and therefore you can email friends and surf the net whenever you want. Even when there is no hotspot.

Even though this product is small, it still manages to provide an excellent 8 inch LCD display. Within this, comes a 1600 x 768 resolution. You can easily open two screens for browsing the web or checking music files.

As with most laptops, notebooks or netbooks, you can purchase them in a range of colours. The Vaio P comes in either red, green or black for now.

Finally, the Vaoi P comes with 60GB capacity, 2GB of DDR2 DRAM Memory and is powered by an Intel Processor. Although it’s not officially being called a smartbook it surely looks like one. You can expect a mark two version of this model to come in the Autum of 2009.

So, is the Toshiba TG01 the first smartbook. With smartbooks not being planned for release until the Autumn of 2009, have Toshiba decided to jump the gun. Well, according to Jean-Varaldi, who is a senior director of marketing and business development at Qualcomm, the company producing the snapdragon processor, seems to think so. He recently referred to the Toshiba TG01 as the first Smartbook.

The TG01 has, at the moment, the biggest screen you can find for a smartphone / smartbook, at a whopping 4.1 inches. Coupled with the fastest processor (the reason for the smartbook name) of 1GHz it makes it the most powerful phone around. If you are looking for a widescreen smartbook to watch videos the Toshiba might be the one.

Plus, if you enjoy gaming and your internet applications running smoothly on your phone, then this slim and sleek designed Toshiba is one of the best you can get.

For more details and a closer look at the TG01 you could go over to

Hopefully, fingers crossed, there will soon be more of these high powered, phones on the market, which we’ll be calling Smartbooks. Then, surely the competition for the biggest and best will truely begin.

Its not quite a netbook and its more powerful than a smartphone – Meet the Smartbook.

The news is that Microsoft are leaving the world of the smartbook to everyone else. Microsofts windows setup is built to be used on the X86 used by Intel and is not suitable for the ARM based processors. The companies that are making these devices are Texas Instruments, Qualcomm and Freescale.

Microsoft not getting involved in the smartbook market may have an effect on it, being such a big hitter, it could mean they aren’t confident smartbooks will take off like netbooks or laptops, but hey, no one is going to give you a free laptop. I suppose we will have to wait and see if Microsoft have made the right decision.

The standard features that you can expect from a smartphone will extend to; Bluetooth, GPS, Wi-fi and 3G mobile broadband and HD video. With all this for the potential price of just $199. It may not be long until they are as common as the mobile phone.