Star Google CEO on Android on Netbooks
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 17th Apr 2009 22:01 UTC
Google It's a bit of a mobile day on OSNews today, with news about Cinder and Symbian. Next up is Google's Android. While Android is designed for smartphones, there has been increasing chatter about netbook manufacturers using Android on netbooks. Google has always remained fairly mum on the possibility of Android on netbooks, but during yesterday's earnings call, Google CEO Eric Schmidt talked about this subject.
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RE: Thank you, but no thank you
by chiwaw on Sat 18th Apr 2009 01:21 UTC in reply to "Thank you, but no thank you"
chiwaw
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Netbooks are not scales up smart phones. Netbooks have too big a display to make Android's (and iPhone's port of OS X) clever conservation of screen real-estate space necessary.


I mostly agree with your point, but what I have in mind would be to get a user experience very close to the Psion Series 5 operating system running on Psion Netbook (yes, the original device named Netbook from 7-8 years ago). And the way the OS use the screen estate, I could see it working with a (slightly modified) iPod Touch OS X.

I know I'd love to play and code for such a device.

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