A smartbook is a hybrid of a smartphone and a netbook, offering portability and convenience with long battery life and 3G wireless connectivity. They use energy-efficient processors for always-on functionality and can run applications that smartphones cannot. Smartbooks are designed for a wide range of uses, including e-readers and media playback devices, and are targeted at diverse markets such as doctors, businesspeople, and college students.
A smartbook is a technological gadget that is a cross between a smartphone and a netbook. It boasts the portability of a smartphone with the convenience of a netbook. Other features include long battery life, always-on functionality, and third generation (3G) wireless connectivity. Several companies produce smartbooks that focus on a range of uses, from e-readers to media playback devices.
Smartbook inventors hope consumers will appreciate the portability and convenience they offer. Smartphones may be too small for extensive web browsing and many computer-based applications, while netbooks take longer to boot up and offer minimal battery life. With a smartbook, a person can simply turn it on and get right to work.
The long battery life of a smartbook is due to the processors used. Smartbooks use relatively powerful and energy-efficient processors. The power of the processors allows the smartbook to run applications that a smartphone would generally not be able to run.
The always-on capability of a smartbook is also achieved by the processors. Unlike traditional processors that are commonly used in full-fledged computers, a smartbook’s processor allows it to be turned on and used immediately. This allows the user to take the smartbook wherever they go, turn it on and get right to work.
Smartbooks are designed to use a mobile service provider’s 3G network. This is the same technology that allows smartphones to connect to the Internet at speeds similar to broadband. In addition to the speed with which a smartbook can browse the Internet that a 3G network offers, it also allows the user to use the Internet wherever he can get a signal. Many mobile service providers have entertained the idea of offering smartbooks alongside smartphones and other devices, charging the user for data plans to connect to the 3G network.
Smartbook manufacturers have produced them for a wide range of uses. Additional features might include global positioning system (GPS) technology, e-book reading capabilities, a customizable interface, or dedicated media player options. The makers have hoped to target a diverse market, ranging from doctors and nurses who will be carrying their smartbooks around to enter patient data, to traveling businesspeople who want to stay up to date on stocks and other business news, to college students who would like to have at hand a machine that allows them to send and receive instant messages and to play various forms of media, such as music and movies.
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