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Smartbooks Expected to Prove Popular by 2015

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PCWorld: Smartbooks Expected to Prove Popular by 2015

Low-powered mobile devices running non-Intel hardware – the Apple iPad is technically a smartbook – could be ubiquitous by 2015, ABI says. Qualcom and Freescale have ’em. Should you be adjusting your mobile buying strategy?

“A new research study estimates that 163 million ‘smartbooks’ will ship worldwide in 2015 – a significant rate of growth given that the very first models only appeared in 2008.

According to ABI Research senior analyst Jeff Orr: ‘As ABI Research defines it, a smartbook is a low-powered device running a mobile operating system that is always connected, either via Wi-Fi or (more often) using cellular or mobile broadband.'”

Small Business Computing Staff
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