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WSJ Reports: HP Testing Android on Netbooks
The talks about a netbook running Google’s Android OS which is currently on the Google G1 phone is no longer new to us. This item was so hot that several sites already run stories about the Google netbook before. Some braveheart even managed to get the Android OS used in the Google phone to run on an Eee PC 700. And it was quite successful and has generated interest since then.
Now, the WSJ is running an article saying the HP is actually testing Android on its netbook. HP’s interest on running Google’s free open-source Android OS was due to the company’s desire to capitalize on the popularity of netbooks among PC consumers. If HP succeed in running the OS on its netbook, then it could save a lot of money which usually goes to paying Microsoft for the default Windows XP OS on its netbooks.
The WSJ report calculates that HP could save $15 it spend on every Windows XP installed on its netbook. Deducting this from the cost of HP netbooks would either give the company more income or allow HP to sell their netbooks at a more affordable and competitive market price.
No details yet as to when HP is going to finalize this project and what are its specific details are. In the meantime let’s just be contend in knowing that HP is doing something to bring the Google Android to its netbooks. The WSJ said so, so there’s a big chance that this might come to reality.
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
WSJ Reports: HP Testing Android on Netbooks
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about 11 months ago
It goes beyond cost of operating system, because Linux systems open up the netbook to free and easy installation of many many Internet and desktop applications like openOffice. So actual cost to users could be hundreds less and that increases the value the manufacturers sell.
My Dell Mini 9 with Ubuntu that I bought from Dell for $200 is my Internet “Dream Machine”. I couldn’t ask for more…I carry it everywhere in a mini-knapsack I bought from Walmart for $8.