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In his keynote address at CES, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer showed off an unnamed HP tablet PC that according to one report, uses a Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm. Separately, Qualcomm announced it was working with HP to design an Android-based smartbook, though a demo of the device shown by HP utilised a clam-shell form factor.
"Without question, 2010 is going to be year of the tablet," said Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies Inc., in a statement issued by Nvidia.
In the interview last year, Freescale's Burchers said that while the first generations of so-called smartbooks utilised a clam-shell form factor, he expected many of the products that hit stores in 2010with battery such as Asus A42-A3 Battery , Asus A2000 Battery , Asus A42-A2 Battery , Asus A3000 Battery , Asus A6000 Battery , Asus A42-A4 Battery , Asus A4000 Battery , Asus L5800 Battery , Asus A42-L5 Battery , Asus L5000 Battery , Asus A32-UL20 Battery , Asus Eee PC 1201PN Battery would "morph into tablets." The tablet form factor with a touch screen is seen as desirable, appealing to younger users, because it encourages mobile use, Burchers said. Also, he added, research indicates that, when using a clam-shell computer, most users automatically expect the operating system to be Microsoft Windows, which most smartbooks and netbooks don't use. With the tablet form factor, the expectation is removed, Burchers said.
"I'm very anxious to see what the users will tell us when these products come out," Burchers said.
The term smartbook arrived in the electronics vernacular last June at Computex in Taipei, when Qualcomm and Freescale used it to describe a class of portable products that are larger than smart phones but smaller than netbooks.
Some fear that the use of the smartbook term and several others—including netbook, e-books, mini-notebooks, mobile Internet devices—to describe products that have similar functionality will create confusion in the minds of consumers. The water may be further muddied by the emergence of such devices in a tablet form factor.
In the June quarter, the company has regained its momentum. Royalty revenues are up. And shipments for the company's MSM cell phone chip line is "strong at 93 million [9.30 crore] (to) 100 million [10 crore]
" units, up from 93 million [9.30 crore] in the previous period, said Mark McKechnie, an analyst with Gleacher & Co., in a report.
That's not what worries analysts, carriers, developers and OEMS, however. Qualcomm will likely remain the leader in the base band market. At Uplinq, many were likely having the same thoughts: What will happen to Brew, and, to a lesser degree, Snapdragon?