Android Netbooks

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Just thinking out loud here, but given that there are several Android based netbooks on the horizon (Acer's Aspire One D250, HP's AirLife 100 etc... even a fre tablets) you have to wonder what place they will take. On the one hand they could compete with smartphones, which would probably place them in the £300-£500 price bracket. But that begs the question, why wouldn't you just get a netbook for £50 less? It would be superior in almost every way. So if it's competing with netbooks it would have to be at most £200, perhaps a bit more considering they will have integrated 3G. But that begs the question that if they use smartphone hardware and a netbook screen how could they possibly come in cheaper than a conventional smartphone? Would it drive down the price?

Food for thought...
 
The tablets actually look cheap, as little as '$100' for a 7" one. My point was if they can use smartphone hardware with a larger screen, that obviously costs more and sell it for this sort of price then how the hell are smartphones so expensive?
 
wesley said:
i tried andriod OS live CD on my old laptop, it was rubbish, google chrome OS is far better tbh
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Because the android you ran wasn't designed to be run at those resolutions? Obviously it needs changing.

You running the Chrome OS Alpha? I heard it's incredibly buggy, and that sort of web centric OS is a very specific market. Not only that but i'd say it's done better by things like Moblin and Jolicloud. Slitaz 3.0 is due out any day now and should do everything but use a lot less resources, perfect for a netbook or old laptop.
 
I'd say Android is no more (perhaps even less so) limited than completely web centric operating systems such as Chrome OS, Moblin or Jolicloud as they can barely do anything off-line.
 
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