News Acer: Android not suitable for netbooks

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2009/04/09/acer-android-not-ready-for-netbooks/1

Acer has confirmed that, despite product testing being ongoing, Google's Android platform isn't yet suitable for netbook devices.

 

Would Android work with an ARM system, such as nVidia's Tegra?

 

yes, the G-1 is an arm device. tegra might have some other stuff in there that doesn't have drivers, but android definitely works on arm.

 

I own a G-1 and while I like Android a lot, it's not a fully mature package yet. It's kind of nice for me as a techie to see a system in constant evolution, but I don't imagine most consumers share my sentiment. On the other hand, it's another linux-based system, which has a benefit of probably higher adoption rate (don't quote me on this) than say gOS, even though it work only on one platform. I wouldn't call it a Windows competitor, but it's definitely a viable system for netbooks, especially if they start producing lower-cost, super-high-battery-life ARM-based netbooks.

 

G1 needs bigger batt (that i have soon)