"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.
ARM: Android not good enough for netbooks
Posted on Monday, June 08 2009 @ 0:31 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck