Comments on: Qualcomm Demos Android Smartbook By ASUS

By: Rafael

Rafael — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:35:19 +0000

I have three grandkids, 6,9 and 12 it is the perfect present for Christmas, and because they don’t care which OS they run, they only want to use them, I don’t care if is Android, Ubuntu or any other Linux, I like the price.

By: Sherbo

Sherbo — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:52:08 +0000

Gah. Missed the obvious comment. Win 7 won’t run on ARM will it? So it will be some form of Linux, Ubuntu or Android or something else.

By: Sherbo

Sherbo — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:23:50 +0000

It’s silly to call people who question the use of android on netbook ‘haters’.

Most would presumably welcome runtimes for android for netbooks. It would be very cool to be able to buy neat little apps for your phone and your netbook. It would be very cool if this happened on Linux and Win 7.

But – how will android work and compare with the a Linux or Win 7 netbook? Will you be able to easily run Gimp and Open Office? What about all the things you can run on a netbook tht runs Win 7 or Linux? The millions of applications out there? Why not start by getting a large chunk of that and then getting android?

But hey, if it’s very cheap an Android netbook may fill a niche. Good to see them trying anyway.

By: grimdeath

grimdeath — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:29:01 +0000

Interesting, but they will have to do something with the UI if they want it to be taken seriously. Right now what works on a small phone screen doesnt quite translate well to a larger screen. Like Phil said above, changing the background at least would have been a good start. Mainly the spacing of icons on the home screen and the slide out panel just dont seem to fit a netbook size screen, if they could scale those better I think it would be a great start.

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:36:37 +0000

Well I was starting to sink into the “makes no sense” category. But I must say it looks nice. Now what they need to do is put the necessary phone antennas in and some buttons on the outside for phone functions and you would have a whole new market.

They do need to figure out the background thing. They should have shown one that actually spans the screen.

Either way I’m gonna this to the Windows 7 fanboys I run across that swear Win 7 is going to kill Linux on netbooks.