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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 17th Apr 2009 22:01 UTC

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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official platform

by shiny on Sat 18th Apr 2009 00:00 UTC

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2005-08-09

I'd much rather see Google officially support netbooks than let the device manufactures hack they way around.

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RE: official platform

by Laurence on Sat 18th Apr 2009 00:26 in reply to "official platform"

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2007-03-26

I'd much rather see Google officially support netbooks than let the device manufactures hack they way around.

I'd much rather see manufactures port a fully functional desktop - like, but not exclusively, Ubuntu - rather than ship a crappy hack of Xandra

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RE: official platform

by TheIdiotThatIsMe on Sun 19th Apr 2009 03:14 in reply to "official platform"

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2006-06-17

That was exactly my sentiments. There seems to be a lot of buzz about Android on the netbook, but in reality even Google themselves don't really seem interested in it. They're just happy about the press it's generating for their platform.

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