Even before we have such things as "netbooks", "mobile devices", "smartphones"... there was the "PDA" or personal digital assistant, then there was the pda-phone and mobile phones. IMHO, these terms are just marketing terms made up by the marketing departments of the companies of these products.
For instance, the present day pda-phone or mobile device phone is just an outgrowth of the original pda "concept" where one keeps their contacts, tasks and notes in this device, and then someone thought it might be "neat" to combine this pda device with a cellphone device... To me, a clear evidence of this is the Windows Mobile Phone, even after going through a number of upgrades, it still cannot disguise this legacy that the mobile phone portion was just a "add-on-thing" and not a fully integrated part of the device. Where the phone capability of the device seamlessly interacts with the other apps in the device... However, I feel that android should not be limited by the platform it runs on, whether this be a mobile device, a smartphone, a netbook, a notebook or even a desktop PC... Not to veer too far from the topic at hand, my interest of having android running on a netbook, actually stems from a more selfish reason. I own an acer aspire one, and would like to have the option of booting and running my netbook on android from a usb thumb drive, for those occasions when I am connecting to a public wifi network, maybe just to quickly check and send emails or I might need to check something in the internet. Although, the security on android (being linux-based) is not a 100% assurance from viruses and malwares, I would still feel a little more at ease in these situations if I am using android... In fact, there are some people who claim that they have been able to run android on their respective netbooks, like the following link "http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/02/android-installed-and-running-on- an-eee-pc-in-a-matter-of-hours/" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
