{"id":605217,"date":"2009-11-13T13:30:27","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T18:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=79694"},"modified":"2009-11-13T13:30:27","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T18:30:27","slug":"smartbooks-have-to-design-their-own-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/605217","title":{"rendered":"Smartbooks Have to Design Their Own Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'><p><div id=\"attachment_79711\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 160px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/lenovosmartbook21.jpg?w=150&#038;h=116&#038;fit=150%2C116&#038;resize=150%2C116\" alt=\"lenovosmartbook21\" title=\"lenovosmartbook21\" width=\"150\" height=\"116\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79711\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Qualcomm-powered Lenovo smartbook<\/p><\/div>Qualcomm earlier this year introduced us to the smartbook concept. On paper, such a device sounds like the perfect bridge between a small smartphone and a clunky notebook &#8212; all-day battery life, a full keyboard and integrated data connectivity in an easy-to-carry package. Unfortunately, the best-laid plans often go awry, and the first expected smartbook looks like nothing more than an ARM-powered netbook running Linux.<\/p>\n<p>In order to carve out a market, <a href=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\/2009\/11\/13\/are-smartbooks-off-to-the-wrong-start-already\/\">smartbooks should offer the best features of the two devices they fit between<\/a>. Smartbooks need all-day runtime, instant-on and smartphone connectivity melded with the keyboard and usability of a netbook. But at the same time, a successful smartbook must offer an advantage over these two devices &#8212; it must be usable, but not too big. Make the device too large and it will compete poorly against netbooks, which offer x86 program compatibility and nearly all-day runtime. That&#8217;s exactly what I see in the first smartbook design &#8212; a netbook form factor that fails to take advantage of using a lower-powered ARM processor in a pocketable package.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liliputing.com\/2009\/11\/qualcomm-shows-first-smartbook-announces-att-as-carrier.html\">Liliputing<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?w=780\" \/><\/div><div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=_HZa2I46fPo:V1KKIi9LMKQ:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=_HZa2I46fPo:V1KKIi9LMKQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=_HZa2I46fPo:V1KKIi9LMKQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=_HZa2I46fPo:V1KKIi9LMKQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=_HZa2I46fPo:V1KKIi9LMKQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=_HZa2I46fPo:V1KKIi9LMKQ:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=_HZa2I46fPo:V1KKIi9LMKQ:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=_HZa2I46fPo:V1KKIi9LMKQ:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~4\/_HZa2I46fPo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qualcomm-powered Lenovo smartbookQualcomm earlier this year introduced us to the smartbook concept. On paper, such a device sounds like the perfect bridge between a small smartphone and a clunky notebook &#8212; all-day battery life, a full keyboard and integrated data connectivity in an easy-to-carry package. Unfortunately, the best-laid plans often go awry, and the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xrz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}