Which makes toting a tablet just as much of a hassle as lugging a laptop, but without the latter's better keyboard, faster processor and greater storage capacity.
Essentially a BlackBerry Bold Lite, the Javelin's missing 3G, and has a slightly smaller keyboard, slower processor, and a bit less boom in the speaker department.
Sharp LYNX SH-10B (rebranded version of the Android 1.6 smartbook ISO01 KDDI showed in March: 5-inch touchscreen with 960×480 resolution, 5.3MP CMOS camera plus 0.43MP front camera, full QWERTY keyboard, Snapdragon processor (1GHz), Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, Wi-Fi, GPS, 4GB of internal memory, Sharp Blu-ray recorder connectivity).
A netbook is a laptop with a shrunken screen, an undersize keyboard and a processor that's so slow, you'd have laughed at it in 2007.
The device is slightly thicker now but the keyboard and faster processor make it a worthy sacrifice.
Microsoft has had a very straightforward play with its pro tablets: set the expectation that a pro tablet can function as a laptop with a powerful processor, keyboard cover, pen support, floating windows and a dock.
Back in 1999 or so I remember one of my co-workers spent over $3,000 for a mini Sony Vaio PCG-C1, the kind with the tiny keyboard and woefully underpowered processor.
A bunch of stuff has been previously rumored and reported and the stuff that seems the most accurate is new 13″ MacBook Air models with USB-C ports and a new MacBook Pro with a fancy digital display above the keyboard and Skylake Intel processors.
I use several keyboards, several word processors, several graphing programs and I can move among them without too much trouble.
But you also get the 13.3in widescreen, large keyboard, 2GB of memory, faster processor and 320GB or 500GB hard drive of a notebook.
The Asha 300, a candybar-shaped handset, will cost €85 and the Asha 303, which has a touch screen and keyboard with a 1 gigahertz processor, is priced at €115.
