ARM: Android not good enough for netbooks

Posted on Monday, June 08 2009 @ 0:31 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
ARM claims more work is needed to make Google's Android operating system suitable for ARM-based netbooks:
"I do think that there is more work that can and will be done to bring the things we love about Android into form factors [such as netbooks]", Kerry McGuire, director of strategic alliances at ARM, told Computerworld. Android, she acknowledged, is still optimized for smartphones.

Netbooks running the Android platform on an ARM-based chip platform, recently dubbed smartbooks, are widely expected to pose a major challenge to netbooks running Windows on Intel Corp.'s Atom chips.


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