ASUS on Friday said it has been developing a netbook based on Google’s Android platform that would ship by the end of 2009 — and would make Linux on netbooks a real alternative to more expensive (not to mention closed) Windows PCs.
…ASUS on Friday said it has been developing a netbook based on Google’s Android platform. The company’s Eee PC division lead, Samson Hu, informs Bloomberg that engineers have been tasked with readying one of the mini notebooks for a tentative end-of-year release window. While specifications aren’t known, the smartphone-oriented operating system demands less resources than Windows XP and is usually optimized for ARM processors and touchscreen displays.Hu warns that the system is still early enough in development that it may not become a final product….
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