The Skytone Alpha 680 smartbook is famous for being the first convertible netbook based on the Android platform. Other than that there is nothing special about this device. The Alpha 680 doesn’t have very attractive specifications or capabilities.
Actually this tiny device with its 7-inch (800x480) touchscreen display runs on an ARM 11 533 MHz processor with 128MB RAM. The standard storage option is a 1GB flash drive. Optional upgrades include 256MB RAM and 4GB of flash storage. Users who need more storage space can use the SDHC slot for expansion.
The Alpha 680 was announced in May this year. It is expected to hit the market soon.
The Taiwan-based firm’s principal financial wonk, Jackie Ding, told official sources yesterday that notebook battery supply may strike its targets in the 2nd quarter of 2009. Simplo had formerly projected the scarcity to end by the 1st quarter of next year. In May agreement notebook PC producer Compal Electronics Inc was enforced to scale back its Q2 consignment growth foretell, blaming a deficiency of batteries. Previously this year most important computer vendors together with Hewlett-Packard and Dell, protested about the crook in the supply chain, which was sourced in part by a fire on 3 March at South Koreas LG Chem industrial unit, where some notebook batteries are feigned.