Dec

2010

NEC to showcase a wide range of Android products at CES

by Tyler Cunningham
tagged Android Tablets, ces, Cloud Communicator, dual screen tablet, mobile Netbook, nec, tablets

CES is just around the corner, and we’re already starting to hear more and more about what Android goodies will be on display. Tablets are likely to be a main attraction, and Japanese manufacturer NEC is slated to have a whole flock of new stuff to showcase, including a Dual-screen Cloud Communicator Tablet, Single-screen Cloud [...]

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Nov

2010

Chrome or Android – Will Google Merge Them?

by Jesse Bauer
tagged Android, android 2.3, android os, Chrome, chrome os, Gingerbread, Google, google Chrome OS, hardware, netbooks, operating systems, pc, smartphones, tablets, theory

There’s a convergence coming in the mobile OS market with respect to mobile technology, platforms and consumer demand. Google aims to capture the best of all 3 areas. We can see it happening right before our eyes. The popularity of Android OS on mobile devices, the announcement of Chrome OS and Google’s partnerships with manufacturers [...]

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Nov

2010

Acer D255 Netbook Seen Running Android OS!

by Jesse Bauer
tagged Acer, Acer D255, Android, android os, Android Tablets, chrome os, Google, Netbook, pc, smartphones

The PC market is in trouble with the onslaught on tablets gaining popularity. How do you battle smartphones and tablets in sales? You install a mobile OS on a PC, in particular, if you’ want to make a good run at increasing your PC sales, you install the most popular mobile OS available…Android. Here you [...]

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Aug

2010

Google Interview: Future of Android

by Dustin Karnes
tagged Android, development, Google, interview

Over at LifeHacker Australia, one of their own did a short interview with Yu-Kuan Lin, Android Product Manager. Yu-Kuan was asked about things like upcoming projects, fragmentation, battery life, upcoming devices, and more. Here are some highlights from the interview: Upcoming Priorities What we’re really focusing on is how do we take the user experience [...]

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Jul

2010

Acer to release Dual-OS netbook with Android and XP

by Dustin Karnes
tagged Acer, Android, dual boot, Google, microsoft, Netbook, OS, windows, xp

According to a very, very short (did I mention how short it is?) article at digitimes, Acer is expected to be releasing a netbook that runs two Operating Systems – Android and Windows XP. The Aspire One AOD 255 would retail for $370 US, and will be shown at the 2010 Taipei Computer Applications Show [...]

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Jul

2010

Augen Genbook 74 disappoints one reviewer

by Dustin Karnes
tagged Android, augen, genbook, review

Over at Droid Dog, there’s an article up concerning the Augen Genbook 74 netbook (not to be confused with K-Mart’s new Gentouch tablet). The main focus of the article? All the reasons that one particular writer returned it within 24 hours. While the netbook came in at $50 less than Gentouch’s tablet, the author does [...]

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Jun

2010

Android 2.2 to Get x86 Love This Summer

by Chris Moor
tagged development, Intel, x86

Some of you may remember when Intel introduced the Moorestown chipset that they mentioned that they were including Android compatibility. Apparently, they’ve decided to go a bit farther than that. In a recent interview with APC, a senior VP at Intel by the name of Renee James insinuated that Intel will be releasing a naively [...]

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Jun

2010

Toshiba’s new AC100 Android netbook

by Chris Moor
tagged 2.1, AC100, Android, Eclaire, Netbook, Toshiba

This funky looking laptop is Toshiba’s latest device to feature Android 2.1; also known as Éclair. It’s a tiny (border-lining netbook size here) laptop with a 10.1″ LED screen with a resolution of 1024×600 and has a 1Ghz Nvidia Tegra 250 mobile processor under the hood. To add to the performance; Toshiba have added 512mb of DDR2 [...]

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Jun

2010

Android/Win 7 dual-boot Acer Aspire D260 Netbook

by Chris Moor
tagged Acer, acer aspire, acer aspire one, acer aspire one d260, Android, android os, d260, dual boot

Netbooks are not quite as exciting as they used to be, what with the majority of them being dangerously similar to the next. It’s no surprise then, that this D260 is more or less standard fare. Oh, except for the dual-booting operating systems. Acer is shipping the D260 with Google Android and Windows 7 in [...]

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Oct

2009

Acer Android Netbook Now Available From Amazon.com

by Chris Moor

Acer’s first Android netbook is now available for pre-order from Amazon.com. The Acer Aspire D250 netbook is dual booted with Windows XP and Google Android and features a 10.1″ (1024 x 600) display, An Atom 1.66GHz N280 processor, 1GB RAM (max 2GB) and a 160GB HDD (5,400RPM). The netbook also includes a multi-touch touchpad and [...]

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