Always Innovating’s Touch Book Netbook in Production

It’s not vaporware after all! Always Innovating’s Touch Book, a netbook with a detachable keyboard that was introduced at this year’s DEMO conference, announced that units will be shipping out next month.

The company, one of our Mobile Mavericks of 2009, has had the $299 netbook (plus $99 for the keyboard) on pre-order for some time, leading some to suspect that the Touch Book might never make it to market. Well, cast your suspicions aside–at least for now.

We look forward to getting our hands on this device and especially to see how good the touch experience is. In the meantime, check out the full spec list.

Touch Book Specs

• Texas Instruments OMAP3530 with Micron 256MB (RAM) + 256MB (NAND) Memory

• 8.9 inches 1024×600 screen
• Main storage: 8GB SD card
• Internal USB wifi 802.11 b/g/n powered by a Ralink 3070 chipset
• Internal USB bluetooth class 2.1
• FCC, CE, UL-certified, 5V, 3.5A power adapter
• 8.9 inches pressure sensitive touch screen
• US Qwerty 24cm-large keyboard — around 95% of the size of a standard keyboard
• Cirque Touchpad
• Two Owolff high-quality internal stereo speakers
• 3D accelerometer
• Two internal batteries 6000 and 12000mAh — it can be replaced with a screw driver
• 7 USB ports: three external, four internal, three of them may be reserved for wifi, bluetooth and keyboard
• Bi-color silver/black case
• Secured attachment system of tablet into keyboard
• Independent magnet system for the tablet