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Touch Books / Smart Books with Detachable Keyboards

• Always Innovating’s TouchBook
• Freescale’s Tablet Smartbook at CES

Freescale announced a $200 tablet reference design that it hopes will come to the market via an OEM partner as early as this Summer. The tablet has a 7-inch (1024 x 600) display and is powered by the i.MX515 processor (including the ARM Cortex A8 chip), 512MB RAM and 4-64 GB of flash storage.

More SmartBooks arriving in 2010

E-Readers

• Barnes’ and Nobles’ Nook
  • the Nook’s FAQ
• Amazon Kindle and Kindle DX

What we are looking for and waiting for is a machine that has these features and specifications:

Features

• Ebook Reader
  • Annotate Ebook Documents
  • Obtain Ebooks from multiple sources
  • Read PDF’s
  • High Quality Reader screen
• Email Reader
• Webcam / Skype
• Touch Screen
• Stylus writing
• Word Processing
• Web Surfing
• Play Videos

Specifications

• Light, Thin, Carryable – small form factor
• Less than $500
• 9″ or 10″ viewable screen
• optional physical keyboard

Will 2010 be the year that we find this?

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