ASUS' Android-based 'secret weapon' smartbook launching in Q1

Courtesy Engadget  Fri, 10/30/2009 - 01:48

We got our first glimpse at a computing future filled with low-cost, ARM-based ASUS smartbooks running Android on a 1GHz Snapdragon processor all the way back on June 1st.

Since then, however, the pencil-spinning boys in Taiwan have been poo-pooing plans to launch such a device due to what ASUS called an uncertain market opportunity -- or was it pressure from Wintel, we never can tell?

Then yesterday, ASUS' Jerry Shen pulled an about-face at an...

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