The Gadgets

HP had shown off an Android powered smartbook at CES 2010. It had a 10 inch resistive touchscreen with 1 GHz snapdragon processor. Other specs were not unveiled and they are still unknown. Engadget just found that HP has submitted an Android powered netbook to FCC for approval and it is definitely the same ‘Compaq [...]

Pegatron has demonstrated an early prototype of its Android powered netbook. It is based on NVIDIA’s latest Tegra 2 system-on-chip. Despite the technology used, the netbook is not much impressive. Being a netbook, it lacks a touchscreen so playing with Android on it doesn’t feel good at all.
Looks are good, keyboard is Macbook-like but they [...]

Taiwan’s institute of Information industry has come up with something really interesting. Their Mtube II netbook has two great features making it a really useful gadget. First, the screen is removable, to be used stand-alone as a touch screen tablet. Cool eh? Yeah! It is really something which I day dreamed many times. You can [...]

Android is a Mobile Phone operating system but it seems we will soon see some Android netbooks in the market. First we saw a lab experiment showing Android running on a development kit. Then we saw John Doug of Dell previewing Dell mini with Android OS. Now Acer has also jumped into the race with [...]

Android is being considered as the most powerful mobile OS so far. There had been attempts of hacks to run Android on netbooks but they had a lot of errors. We also saw a small chip-set running Android OS and MSI had also announced to launch an Android based netbook. All these discussions, news and [...]

There had been a lot of rumors regarding an Android powered netbook including MSI’s announcement that they will be launching one very soon but we didn’t see anything practical. Moto Labs has made this thing a reality by running Android OS on an E Ink development kit. E Ink is a kit for developers which lets [...]

Without mentioning the news source, ITBaza reports that MSI is planning to manufacture Android powered netbook. The netbook will probably be based on MSI wind.
We had been hearing the rumors about Android powered netbooks including the hacks trying to run Android OS on netbooks. But this is the first time that some netbook manufacturer is [...]