Category: new notebook models
By: Pallab Jyotee Hazarika
First Android netbook out this summer
The first Android netbook due release this summer and rumored to be costing in the range of $250.
First of its kind?
How long we’ve seen the interesting battle between Windows and Linux around the bend? It’s the battle between corporation and open-source community – although customer is not complaining because that provides a platform for intense innovation, even more in case of Linux as its open-source software. Comes Google (Ooff! Can’t you keep them away from anything?) with Android, and as always they plan nothing less than revolutionaries the market. They first teamed up with T-mobile to give us the G1 Smartphone, and now slowly venturing into the netbook segment. The first Android-powered netbook is official now. Skytone, the Chinese manufacturer, announced that their and the world’s first Android netbook is probably just about three months away. They even gave a price tag - $250.
Apart from the Android, the other significant difference this netbook will have is the ARM processor, which till now comes only as a cell phone processor. Now that the netbooks share the same philosophy of low power consumption, these kinds of processors are becoming popular.
The Alpha 680 is going through final design phases, Nixon Wu, Skytone's co-founder, told Computerworld. The company should be ready with the final prototype by June. For a start, it will use the ARM 11 CPU (533MHz), the same one used in iPhone. It will have a 7-inch screen with 800 x 480 resolution, touchpad, keyboard, and built-in WiFi, and a battery that’ll last only about 2-4 hrs. The 1.5 lbs and 8.5 x 6 x 1.2 –inch machine is definitely lighter and smaller than many of the netbooks. Fitted with a 128MB RAM (expandable to 256MB) and a 1GB SSD drive (expandable to 4GB), the Alpha 680 should give meaningful competition to the market dominated by Windows-Intel partnership.
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