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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?

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