Eee PC

While we may never get to lay our eyes on the final version of the Lenovo Skylight, Freescale has surprised us with a new Lenovo smartbook put together by Pegatron. Being a smartbook, it has the innards of a typical smartphone running under the hood. This includes an 800MHz ARM Cortex A8 processor, a memory [...]

Craving for Android on a 7-inch tablet? That’s exactly what the folks from Kinpo are busy with these days–they are working on a 7-inch Freescale-powered Android tablet that’s tentatively called the Kinpo Thin Client, as demoed in the Freescale booth during Computex 2009. The 7-inch screen of the Kinpo Thin Client sports a WVGA 800×480 [...]

Freescale Semiconductor has announced plans to launch its very own Android-powered netbooks in the second quarter of 2009. These netbooks, projected to cost only about $100 (as opposed to the usual $200 cost of other netbooks), will be shipped primarily with Wi-Fi and without wireless 3G connectivity, according to a report on Reuters. I know, [...]

Freescale officially entered the netbook market sometime last month via its own processor made specifically for netbooks – the i.MX515 processor. To follow up this endeavor, Freescale was reported to have launched a new connectivity and OS option for netbooks. Interestingly, this new OS encourages the use of Ubuntu Linux as an OS of choice. [...]

If what it promises to finally bring down the price of netbooks to the sub-$200 point, then Intel may have something to worry about with Freescale’s alternative  – i.MX515 processor featuring ARM Cortex-A8 technology that can be used by netbook manufacturers. Offering to deliver eight hours of battery life for 8.9-inch netbooks, Freescale’s solution would [...]