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Nawaiya set to unveil 7-inch laptop
Boasting full PC, 3G capabilities with touch-screen, PalmTop is a world's first.
- By Nadia Saleem, Staff Reporter
- Published: 23:04 February 24, 2009
Dubai: Nawaiya, a Dubai-based company, has designed one of the smallest laptops in the market, with a 7-inch touch-screen with full PC and 3G capabilities, which also doubles as a mobile connectivity device, called PalmTop.
Samer Suhail, managing director of Nawaiya, said there is no other laptop that compares with the PalmTop as it acts as a primary PC and not a secondary one, as other small laptops do.
"The PalmTop is the world's first mobile mini-notebook equipped with dual core," said Suhail.
The laptop incorporates AMD's Turion 64 x2 dual-core 1.2GHz as a main chipset and ATI RS690E for its graphics card. With an investment capital of Dh3.67 million, the company that was established three years ago has Emirati and American investors.
Suhail said that in the future, the company would launch many convergence hand-held devices that have full PC and 3G capabilities that would support their main service of Mobile content.
"We are working hard to bring about an ultra low cost mobile computing platform that connects to the internet over affordable wireless technology with the goal of bringing and guaranteeing neutral internet connectivity to the masses," he said.
The company intends to partner with regional tele-com operators to bundle their services with the device and data package.
The device runs on Microsoft's Windows XP and is capable of the new Windows 7 operating system.
Weighing just 713gm, it also incorporates a touch-screen user interface. The PalmTop is the company's third product and it will be launched in the third quarter of this year. Nawaiya will retail its products at prices of $500 to $1,000.
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