Touch Books / Smart Books with Detachable Keyboards
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
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?