December 17, 2010 – 3:15 pm
By Glen Burchers Is Gingerbread delayed again? How big is the iPad 2 screen? Can I update my Streak to Froyo yet? What iPad apps are free today? Which iPad keyboard case should I buy? When will Honeycomb ship? Is the next Android called Ice Cream? What’s the best thin and light notebook? Is Microsoft [...]
By Glen Burchers
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Posted in Freescale, Smart Mobile Devices, The Embedded Beat
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Also tagged Android OS, Appleinsider, Dell Streak, Engadget, eReader, Froyo OS, Gingerbread OS, Gingerbread tablet, Honeycomb OS, Ice Cream OS, ipad, Liliputing, smart mobile device pundits, tablet, Uber Gizmo
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December 15, 2010 – 12:57 pm
By Robert Thompson In a recent interview, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs discusses what happened to the smartbook. In the article, Jacobs says that Qualcomm “ ‘…probably did ourselves a little bit of a disservice by using [the term] smartbooks because people then thought notebooks and therefore it was a clamshell form factor.’ ” The article [...]
By Robert Thompson
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Posted in Freescale, Smart Mobile Devices, The Embedded Beat
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Also tagged Android OS, Chrome OS, Genesi, Google, ipad, NVidia, tablet, Toshiba, ubantu
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December 1, 2010 – 11:19 am
By Glen Burchers Projections for tablet computer shipments in 2011 are now ranging from a low of 35MU to a high of 100MU. A lot of people are speculating how this will disrupt the PC market – especially notebook PCs. Certainly, there will be some market share shift towards tablets. But I think the implication [...]
By Glen Burchers With the staggering success of the iPad thus far and with forecasts from iSuppli for tablet shipments to reach around 13MU this year, there is plenty of evidence to conclude that end users want smartbook tablet type devices for a variety of reasons. In previous blogs, we’ve shown data from end user [...]
By Glen Burchers This is the seventh of nine blog posts that recap the recent end user research Freescale did with Savannah College of Art and Design. We interviewed more than 1,000 people during a 10-week period earlier this year to find out what they had to say about their future smartbook tablet needs. This [...]
By Glen Burchers This is the sixth post in our research about smartbook tablets where we researched various use cases to suit the needs of different demographics. Today’s young adults show an interesting trend. Many of them are eschewing traditional TVs in favor of viewing their entertainment videos on their PCs. We wanted to take [...]
By Glen Burchers During our smartbook tablet research with the Savannah College of Art and Design, one of the questions we had was, “is there a market for a super-premium smartbook tablet?” For this question, we assumed it would be a user who lived the lifestyle of the rich and famous. Think James Bond. Our [...]
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