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- WiFi and HSDPA built-in to upload my HD videos directly to an FTP server without needing to use a laptop. API to interact with online services to then publish that video to video-blogs and Youtube.

- Live streaming using WiFi or HSDPA of the camera feed in a low resolution and bitrate all the while the camcorder is recording the HD quality to the Internal storage.

- Built-in 2.5″ hard drive (up to 500GB) as well as SDHC storage.

- Built-in bluetooth or VHF to use for cheap but high quality wireless microphones. Multiple microphones should work with one camera.

- USB keyboard support to enter filenames, description, tags for when publishing the HD videos directly from the camera to the Internet.

- Voice recognition service (could be online), can automatically transcribe title, description and tags from voice recordings made to be linked up with the main HD video file recording.

- On screen live chat from live video viewers in the same way as the Qik live chat works on the Nokia N95.

- Live video feed should be able to go to services such as Qik.com, Mogulus.com, Ustream.tv, Kyte.tv as well as live p2p streaming systems using live Bittorrent protocols, pplive or sopcast.

- Wacom touchscreen for annotations.

- Unlocked HSDPA and WiFi.

- Available worldwide subsidized with Kindle Store content subscriptions.

- Access to Project Gutenberg and other free ebook content

- Access to all RSS feeds in a built in RSS aggregator.

I’d say this is probably better then the stuff Asus has (Similarly specced Asus Eee 901 is $589 in USA while Acer Aspire One is $379). MSI Wind might have a slightly larger screen and a hard drive, but it’s also 38% more expensive.

Acer Aspire One is available at 289€ from France: http://www.rueducommerce.fr/ordinateur/showdetl.cfm?Product_ID=436637#xtorAL-25

Dell is coming with perhaps even better value in September.

Of course, these Atom notebooks are over twice the price of the 7.5″ sunlight readable AMD Geode based OLPC at 120€ (you can buy two get one worldwide in September, the second laptop you buy goes to a child in a developing nation) and about 4 times the price of the ARM based laptops that are also coming up in the next few months.

But if you absolutely are considering getting an Atom based laptop, this Acer Aspire One does look like pretty good value to me. The slightly cheaper Asus Eee 700 has a much less usable smaller LCD screen and a much less usable smaller keyboard as well.

Here’s a nice french video review comparing this 8.9″ netbook with 12″ and a 15″ laptops, to have an idea of the size difference, Acer managed to make the keyboard about the same size as on the 12″ laptop that is shown, just so you aren’t too surprised of its small size when you receive it: http://dailymotion.com/video/x628dx_lesnumeriques-acer-aspire-one_tech

This is definitely much better value then any of the 2000€ Fujitsu, Sony or Flybook small laptops which were the only ones available at this size about a year ago.

It might be worth waiting a few weeks to see if Acer will release an Aspire One with built-in HSDPA.

This JL700 laptop is from some unknown Hong Kong company, but it does prove that $100 ARM based laptops are coming.

But this is certainly the type of laptop that is the laptop of the future.

Archos could make this using their nearly unaltered DaVinci platform and simply cramming it into a laptop form factor with a keyboard and trackpad mouse and a normal cheaer non-touch LCD. Archos could sell it below $200 and try to provide Google Android on it as an open platform, while they develop Google Android for the rest of the Archos line of products.

ARM based laptops cost less then half the cost of X86 based laptops, they consume less then half the power, take up less then half the size and weight.

I am sure we are going to see ARM based laptops very soon based on all kinds of ARM chips be it Texas Instruments DaVinci, Marvell Scale, Samsung, Qualcomm, Nvidia and others. Those are all going to be half or a third of the cost of any X86 based laptop, they are going to consume lower then half the battery power, they are going to fit in half the size and weight, they are going to be much faster at booting up and at doing basic tasks compared to X86.

More about this $100 ARM based laptop at:

http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/27/keepin-it-real-fake-part-cxxvi-jointechs-99-jl7100-rips-eee/

http://www.jointech.com.hk/jl7100.html

Of course, this means the end for Intel, Microsoft and potentially the end of several large PC and laptop makers such as Dell, HP, Apple, Fujitsu, Asus, Acer, MSI, Foxconn and others, all of which see no profit in selling laptops at $99: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/technology/21pc.html