At Mobile World Congress next week, we’re showcasing the latest in smart mobile devices – smartbooks, eReaders, smartphones and more – all powered by Freescale technology. Learn how our system-level solutions help foster your innovation, enabling you to create smart mobile devices with key features such as all-day battery life, instant-on functionality and persistent connectivity.

Can’t wait? See a preview of our smartbook tablet reference design. It’s the first in our Smart Application Blueprint for Rapid Engineering (SABRE) series of platforms. Get the details »

To celebrate Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona and our leadership in supplying processors for eReaders, we’re excited to give 5 lucky people the chance to win one of the world’s must-have smart mobile devices – an Amazon Kindle 2 – during our “5 Kindles in 5 days” contest. Each day starting Feb. 15 through Feb. 19, we’ll be selecting one recipient out of everyone who follows us on Twitter or Facebook and tweets their answer to the following question: “What’s the first digital book you’d read if you had an eReader?” (Use hashtag #freescale5/5.) Read the official contest rules »

Check back on freescale.com/consumer for the top 10 eBooks as suggested by our participants.

Steve Sperle, our newest blogger on Freescale’s Smart Mobile Devices blog, ponders Apple’s iPad processor. Steve speculates on the internals of the chip, compares it to i.MX515, but ultimately finds that it’s one big guessing game. What do you think? Read more »

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i.MX233 ARM9 for Consumer and General Embedded Markets (1 hour)
Instructor notes: Get a detailed overview of system architecture, power management capability and ecosystem support.

Energy Efficient Controller and Sensor Solutions (1 hour)
Instructor notes: Highly recommended for designers who want to identify power-efficient 8-bit microcontrollers, 32-bit embedded microprocessors, capacitive touch sensors and accelerometer solutions.