Hands-on with the Compaq Airlife 100

Chippy from UMPCPortal has taken some time out from running around like a madman at MWC to sit down with the Compaq Airlife 100.  If you’ll recall this is the new Snapdragon-toting Netbook-form-factor-Smartbook, if thats not over-complicating things.  The Airlife 100 runs Android , has a 10.1″ Resistive touchscreen, and due to that lean Snapdragon under the hood has a claimed 12-hour battery life (Obviously take that with the usual battery-life-related pinch of salt).  The Airlife 100 also has built-in 3G, a card reader, 16GB SSD and a keyboard and touchpad specifically tailored for Android (The touchpad has Home and Back buttons alongside it, for instance).

If Compaq (or HP, as it’s likely to be branded in the US) can hit a good pricepoint for this device it could be a real hit.  See UMPCPortal’s hands-on below.