Netbooks--super-small notebooks designed primarily for Web surfing, e-mail, and light applications--are all the rage these days. But as portable as they are, they depend primarily on Wi-Fi for wireless Internet access--and Wi-Fi hotspots aren't as ubiquitous as cell phone networks.

Powered down, Celio's Redfly devices look sort of like netbooks. But they are actually terminals for Windows Mobile handsets that you hook up via either Bluetooth or a USB cable. Without the smartphone, they do nothing; with it, though, they let you do almost anything you'd do on your handset, but with a larger display and keyboard.

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Netbooks are cheap and easy to tote, but will they replace notebooks?

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The Aspire One netbook is a very tiny notebook computer designed for basic computer tasks (Web surfing, e-mail, basic Office-like tasks). The 2.2-lb. Aspire One includes built-in wireless networking and a Webcam, runs on an Intel Atom processor (1.6 GHz), and has 512MB of RAM (upgradeable to 1GB). It runs on the Linus Linux Lite operating system, but for some reason the version we had was running Windows XP (we could have had an older version, the newer ones might have the Linux OS).

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We love Datawind’s little PocketSurfer mobile web devices, but with the next generation of netbooks packing 3G internet connectivity built in, have you ever wondered what the company’s going to do to stand out? It seems Datawind has an answer: we’ve just found out it’s planning a full netbook for next year, and even unlimited web access to boot!

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Microsoft developers hope to put a stop to Windows' ever-growing footprint for its seventh iteration, due for final release around 2010. Officials demoed a version running on a netbook, a small notebook form factor growing in popularity. Netbooks today aren't generally hefty enough to handle Vista, though hardware improvements are expected over the years. Can netbooks meet Windows 7 in the middle?

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Apple has launched an all-new MacBook which "eliminates more than 60 percent of the parts, and it's much stronger," according to CEO Steve Jobs.

Jobs, announcing a range of new laptops at a product launch in California, said the new MacBook offers a 5x boost in graphics performance over previous MacBooks, together with 5 hours of battery life. It also features corner-to-corner glass, a precision aluminium unibody enclosure, an LED display, next-gen graphics and a multi-touch glass trackpad.

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A start-up named OLO Computer is getting set to launch what appears to be an iPhone-powered notebook/netbook which uses the iPhone as the CPU and the iPhone docks flat with the keyboard surface to offer its touch-screen as a trackpad. 

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Packard Bell has announced the launch of its first 8.9-inch netbook, called dot, in the European Market.

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