Nokia laptop a Snapdragon or Atom-based netbook?
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Feb 27th 2009 1:19PM
posted Feb 27th 2009 1:19PM
Adding further fuel and confusion to the Nokia laptop fire sparked by yesterday's comments from CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasuvo, we have DigiTimes reporting that Nokia is actively seeking Taiwanese manufacturing and design partners for its netbook -- a very specific laptop form-factor. DigiTimes' sources wag their gossipy fingers in the direction of Compal and Foxconn (aka, Hon Hai Precision Industry) as the two most likely joint design manufacture (JDM) partners. However, instead of an ARM Cortex A9 Sparrow-powered device as speculated by Mobile-Review, DigiTimes claims that Nokia is developing a netbook powered by either Qualcomm's Snapdragon (currently based around the ARMv7 architecture used in the ARM A8 Cortex CPU) or Intel's Atom platforms. Of course, we could be looking at multiple form-factors from Nokia (MIDs, Netbooks, and laptops) in harmony with their successful approach to the mobile phone market.Update: The chipset rumors are actually more closely aligned than they appeared at first glance. Mobile-Review said the Nokia's Sparrow-based device wouldn't ship until 2011 -- that's plenty of time for ARM-based Snapdragon to adopt the Cortex A9 processor.
From the post picture I thought it to be another Kindle post.
"However, instead of an ARM-powered device as speculated by Mobile-Review, DigiTimes claims that Nokia is developing a netbook powered by either Qualcomm's Snapdragon or Intel's Atom platforms."
Snapdragon is an ARM-based architecture.
Qualcomm's Snapdragon is an ARM...
Going to be with Symbian OS - Epic Fail !
Depends if they port over the old Psion apps. I'd happily buy an updated Series 5 MX!
Says the guy using Ballmer as avatar...
Don't really know what you're talking about do you?
Given this looks like a successor for the N810, I'd have thought they'd be going with the "all new" Maemo, which at least has the benefit of easy porting of desktop style apps while providing a stripped down mobile friendly UI.
More likely it will be some form of Ubuntu
Kallasvuo not kallasuvo.
Original video interview with english text: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBXfl0Q7RDk
The Cortex-A8, Cortex-A9 and sparrow are all ARMv7 architecture processors. The only differentiation is the level of performance of each.
What do you mean "could be" ... Nokia already makes a MID. Arguably, the first MID on the market. The Internet Tablet line (770, N800, and N810). You should already know that.