Qualcomm, makers of the Snapdragon chipset, announced at an investor conference today that they will be designing a smartbook, which is a hybrid between a smartphone and netbook.
Although the Lenovo device is just slightly larger then the palm of one’s hand, Paul Jacobs, CEO of Qualcomm, indicated it will come with a full keyboard and display. Under the hood, the smartbook will be powered by a Snapdragon processor and will include integrated mobile broadband that will link into the AT&T 3G mobile network.
Not a lot of details were announced today, but it is suspected the unit will run on a custom Linux operating system rather then on Google Android. It was mentioned though that both pricing and the official name of this Smartbook will be announced in January 2010 when the unit is formally launched at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2010.
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