The boundary between computers and mobile phones become thinner and less clear for each day that passes. Quite recently launched mobile phone manufacturer HTC's HD2 smartphone that is running Windows Mobile 6.5 powered by a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU. Processor based on ARM architecture is made by Qualcomm, and many, including the undersigned, have since been waiting for an Android-based counterpart. But now that Snapdragon mated with Android, it is not a new smartphone, but in a so-called smart book.

SmartBook are the computers that are expected to fill the gap between smartphones and netbooks. This is a larger form factor than the corresponding cell phones, but with longer battery life than a bigger netbook.

Qualcomm recently announced several new devices based on its Snapdragon platform, and one of them was a Lenovo-made smart book. With a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU and Google's Android operating system the computer should provide a battery life of at least 8 hours of use with 3G and Wi-Fi enabled, like a smartphone.

Qualcomm also showed an odder clever book design where the display and keyboard were separate entities. The emergence of new form factors very often in the market and the future will tell how smart book-concept fare. Expect that we follow its development.