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 controller that supports DDR2-400 or mDDR-400 up to 200MHz, a NEON coprocessor with SIMD architecture, digital audio subsystem that supports multichannel SPDIF output, controller, Fast Ethernet, FIR ( Fast InfraRed), a GPU with 2D and 3D acceleration core dedicated OpenVG and OpenGL / ES and a decoding engine with support for HD 720p/1080i.

According to the gang over at Notebook Italia, Freescale’s MC13892 power management IC makes it possible for the smartbook to run without needing active cooling or even passive cooling, a claim which I personally find hard to believe (though I’m not saying it’s impossible). The battery life, they say can rival a standard mobile phone. The form factor on this one is very nice and looks like it’ll beat any smartphone or tablet PC by a long shot. More details about it are expected to come out soon.

Via Notebook Italia

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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 resolution and as you might have guessed, it is a touchscreen. It appears to run pretty smoothly in the video but it is obvious that Android hasn’t been optimized for the device itself yet. Perhaps, as Kinpo completes the work needed for the Thin Client, we’ll see it even more as a finished product than as a prototype. Watch the video of the Android-based Kinpo Thin Client after the break.
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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, Android still has a long way off becoming the best known mobile OS for smartphones, so it would be interesting to see how well it performs on netbooks. Aside from Android, Freescale’s upcoming netbooks will also support third-generation operating systems from Phoenix Technologies and Xandros.

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Offering to deliver eight hours of battery life for 8.9-inch netbooks, Freescale’s solution would also include software, components and resources to help OEM’s in developing and deploying highly affordable netbooks.

According to Freescale, a netbook reference design featuring its i.MX515 processor and a new power management IC is already available.  The said netbook reference runs on Canonical’s Ubuntu OS, has the SGTL5000 ultra low-power audio codec and Adobe Flash Lite.

And of course, if OEM’s would take on Freescale’s processor in their next netbook offerings, price point will be at $200 max.

Via Business Wire

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