Has anyone spotted this? It's a bit bigger than a Nintendo DS with a
touch screen and has:
* ARM(R) Cortex(tm)-A8 600Mhz+ CPU running Linux
* 430-MHz TMS320C64x+(tm) DSP Core
* PowerVR SGX OpenGL 2.0 ES compliant 3D hardware
* 800x480 4.3" 16.7 million colours touchscreen LCD
* Wifi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth & High Speed USB 2.0 Host
* Dual SDHC card slots & SVideo TV output
* Dual Analogue and Digital gaming controls
* 43 button QWERTY and numeric keypad
* Around 10+ Hours battery life
Webpage and Forum here:
http://www.openpandora.org/
Could this run Android?
Regards, Jason
On Sep 22, 9:25 pm, Filipe Abrantes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Indeed a good idea...
>
> Instead of a netbook being a weak laptop with a very small screen it can
> be looked at as a phone on steroids (with an enlarged screen). So far
> Google hasn't released the source code of all Android components, and
> only ARM binaries are available. My guess is that when Google releases
> the source we will quickly see it on x86 and with it, on netbooks.
>
> Cheers,
> Filipe
>
> 純情小百合 wrote:
> > Dear Erik:
>
> > It is a good idea to take Android as netbook operationg system and I
> > think those features might be integrated into netbook in the future
> > since it is called as netbook. Comparing to smart phone, netbook gets
> > larger screen for reading and operation. Surely, I think so that there
> > shall be touch screen for netbook if it running Anrdoid.
>
> > If Erik or any one knows any company develops Android for netbook?
>
> > Jesse
> > 09222008
>
> > On Sep 21, 11:54 pm, Erik Martino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> It occurs to me that Android may be well suited as a netbook operating
> >> system. The reasons why i believe this is that a netbook computer
> >> share many use scenarios with smart phones. Netbooks may even be seen
> >> as a direct competitor to smart phones.
>
> >> However smart phones has some features that netbooks lack.
>
> >> - internet access (a netbook could use an ordinary mobile phone via
> >> bluetooth)
> >> - touch screen (a must have on netbooks, I don't know why they don't
> >> have it, i guess that they haven't yet let go of their PC heritage.)
> >> - GPS (not a must have but very useful)
> >> - Size (smart phones are smaller, net books should be small as well,
> >> the large screen size needed today is because the UI is usually
> >> adapted from PC software)
>
> >> The netbook operating system market has the advantage that it is not
> >> nearly as crowded as the smart phone os market. In fact no serious
> >> netbook os has been made since Psion left this market.
>
> >> Has anybody else thought about this?
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