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Nokia to offer ARM-based smartbook in addition to Booklet 3G, say Taiwan makers

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20090826PD204.html

For the initial smartbook orders, Nokia is likely to outsource the production to either Compal Electronics or Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry), The Nokia Booklet 3G, which will run on Microsoft Windows 7 and supports 3G/HSDPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and A-GPS, will be produced by Compal.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/n...k-in-mid-2010/

a smartbook / MID with either a multicore ARM Cortex A9 Sparrow chip or Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor.
 

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The OS will be Maemo ARM based OS, or a combination of Maemo Linux with Intel Moblin Linux.
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I hope this is true. Could be the long awaited successor to the N8x0...
 
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With Maemo?

With Maemo still undergoing UI redesign and shoehorning to fit in the smaller-than-tablets smartphones?

I'd personally hope that the ARM netbook market will only be "fragmented" between the (inevitable) ms-wince preload crowd and the open and mostly mutually coooperative Debian/Ubuntu Netbook Remix community. If that hardware platform relies on closed proprietary hardware it will be born as dead as any non-x86 wince platform before it though. That is, even deader than x86 ms-wince!

Moblin could be interesting too, if it wasn't for the x86-centric priorities of their big daddy Intel.

Well, in any case the more ARM-based (true netbook) devices, the merrier...
 
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maemo is not the same as the maemo-ui you know from maemo4 or you will know from maemo5. thanks to linux it is possible to take the system an throw a different ui on it.
as i said... wait for second of september and you will see...
 
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This is pretty boner worthy
 
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Yup, that's more like it... let the execs have their BMW (Booklet), this is the Lada workhorse for the rest of us... :-)
 

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Originally Posted by Architengi View Post
The OS will be Maemo ARM based OS, or a combination of Maemo Linux with Intel Moblin Linux.
This is a cheap fake picture, and "The OS will be Maemo ARM based OS" is not true either, as far as I know.
Please come up with sources at least.
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Originally Posted by Architengi View Post
The OS will be Maemo ARM based OS, or a combination of Maemo Linux with Intel Moblin Linux.
Nokia: Keepin' it gangsta.
 
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Originally Posted by Architengi View Post
Nokia to offer ARM-based smartbook in addition to Booklet 3G, say Taiwan makers

a smartbook / MID with either a multicore ARM Cortex A9 Sparrow chip or Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor.
This I'm very much looking forward to, but does feel a bit wrong after "Maemo focuses touchscreen and fits into pockets" has been rubbed under my nose by Nokians in the booklet thread Either Nokia folks also have big pockets and this is a MID, or smartbooks get a lot smaller in 2010. I would prefer the former, but I don't think that's the mysterious N920 second device. One can always hope, though
 
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