Yes, it all still seems within the realm of possibilities, with relatively soft boundaries concerning what OS fits where after some additional UI and connectivity tweaking to push Android from phone towards netbook or Chrome OS from netbook towards phone. Android could become multi-window multi-process, while Chrome OS could add phone connectivity layers and drop or replace some UI elements for small screens, etc, without affecting the bulk core of the respective OS's much.
http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39449789,00.htm reads > Annette Jump, research director at analyst house Gartner, reckons even with > Chrome OS > in the pipeline Android is still well suited to the smallest, cheapest > netbooks: devices > she describes as "seven, even six-inch screen devices with very limited PC > functionality, > more oriented towards web browsing". but of course that too need not be the final word. On Jul 8, 12:10 pm, String <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 8, 7:51 am, Fred Grott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Chrome OS would not land on phones as it has no features to interact with > > the mobile handset baseband units for GSM or CDMA. > > Yet. > > Also, given that nobody outside of Google will see ChromeOS until > later this year, I'd say it's a bit early to say what features it does > or doesn't have, even at launch. > > Personally, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see ChromeOS gain the > hardware interaction layers and make its way onto handsets at some > point. It's WebOS from Google. > > String --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
