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This Tech Perspective analyzes trends in netbooks and smartphones and examines how the gap between the two device categories has closed along a number of system cost and complexity vectors while persistent differences remain in power consumption, form factor and software. Presented jointly by Portelligent and Semiconductor Insights at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 17, 2009, the presentation "When Netbooks and Smartphones Collide – The Impending Convergence of Handheld Computing" features in-depth analyses of netbooks from Acer and Dell and smartphones from Apple and HTC.
The study reveals that while the hardware bill-of-materials and IC component count and die area for netbooks have reached parity with smartphones, gaps between the two device categories remain for power consumption, package I/O count, and package area. The presentation concludes with key findings from the study and reveals recent announcements from system, component, and software vendors highlighting efforts to further blur the line between netbooks and smartphones.
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