HTC is preparing a NetBook for you.

The latest hype in the tech world are definitely the NetBooks. Laptops were widely called NoteBook and the power of internet that people intend to have anywhere on the move has forced manufacturers to make the NoteBooks smaller and mobile, ultimately the NetBooks were born.

While Acer, HP and Sony already have a slew of netbooks selling, HTC won't let the opportunity slip away. Although we saw the HTC Shift some time back capable of running both Windows Mobile as well as Windows Vista, it was totally forgotten and ignored for the hefty price tag of over 1000 USD, now they try to do something cheaper by using Intel' Atom processor specially meant for powering NetBooks. Hopefully they bring out a SexyBookNetBook.

Carty (59.97.64.xxx) 2009-02-08 14:40:09 No thanks, I still love my HTC Advantage Reply | Quote 0   0

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