Smartbook

[1] Smartbooks were advertised with features such as always on, all-day battery life, 3G, or Wi-Fi connectivity and GPS (all typically found in smartphones) in a laptop or tablet-style body with a screen size of 5 to 10 inches and a physical or soft touchscreen keyboard.

[2] A German company sold laptops under the brand Smartbook and held a trademark for the word in many countries (not including some big markets like United States, China, Japan, or India).

[3][4] Smartbooks tended to be designed more for entertainment purposes than for productivity and typically targeted to work with online applications.

[8] Difficulties in adapting key software (in particular, Adobe's proprietary Flash Player) to the ARM architecture[9] delayed releases until the first quarter of 2010.

[10] Smartbooks would have been powered by processors which were more energy-efficient than traditional ones typically found in desktop and laptop computers.

[16] By the end of 2010, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs admitted that tablet computers such as the iPad already occupied the niche of the smartbook, so the name was dropped.

[7] In February 2011 Qualcomm won its legal battle when the German patent office ruled the words "smart" and "book" could be used.

It featured a 5.5" touchscreen, runs Ubuntu on an ARM Cortex-A8 based Freescale i.MX515 and was packaged in a small clamshell design.

It consisted of an ARM Cortex-A8 based Freescale i.MX515 supports 2D/3D graphics as well as 720p HD video, 512 MB DDR2 RAM, 1024x600 8.9" LCD screen, Bluetooth 2.0, 802.11g and run off a SD card.

In beginning February on Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, HP announced it will bring this device to market.

[45] In November 2009, a Quanta Computer pre-production Snapdragon powered sample smartbook device that ran Android was unveiled.