The battle between portable devices is heating up.

ARM's Director of Mobile Computing, Bob Morris, says he sees a "fundamental shift" in the PC industry towards lower power, "full day use model" devices and reckons his firm is well placed to bring the fight to Intel in the cheaper than Atom chips sub $200 market.

At Computex today, home grown Taiwanese firm Acer unveiled its new Aspire One netbook sporting the Android operating system.

ARM is looking to tap into a new stream of revenue from netbooks, fending off Intel's invasion into the mobile space by pushing further and further into the PC space according to Bob Morris.

We recently reported that the Taiwanese rumour mill was buzzing with whispers about Foxconn building a netbook for Apple, but now Apple's COO, Tim Cook, seems to have pooh-poohed the whole notion of netbooks, calling them "junky".

We've picked up on some Chinese whispering which would have us believe Apple could be about to release its very own netbook, with Foxconn Electronics chosen as the fruity toymaker's main manufacturing partner.

Taiwanese netbook maker Acer will launch its own brand of smartphones at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona next week, and analysts believe that the firm plans to introduce numerous different handsets.

Google chief predicts big year for Android, although we're slightly dubious of Android's future success.

New chip will be aimed at ultra-portable notebooks ranging in display sizefrom 11in to 13.3in.

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