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Android, Minus the Phones

The other day we mentioned in this post that there may be more momentum gathering around implementations of Google's Android platform on non-phone hardware. Today, both ZDNet and apcmag.com are discussing a more laptop-friendly version of Android, dubbed Cupcake. Also, folks have already demonstrated the efficacy of putting Android on netbooks with two experimenters putting it on an Asus Eee PC in under four hours. This trend is going to continue.

Having already announced its plans to get its open source Chrome browser on OEM hardware platforms as the default browser, and announced plans to do both Mac and Linux versions of Chrome (Android is Linux-based), Google itself may be able to pack a powerful free, open source punch on hardware platforms such as low-cost netbooks. The mail, video recording and other types of new features in Cupcake point to a broader future for Android than just going on smartphones.

As Dana Blankenhorn notes, one big benefit to having Android on non-phone platforms is that it would free Android from just being dependent on "the carrier business model." There are other benefits too. More people will develop for a netbook- or laptop-focused version of Android than will develop smartphone applications, for example. I'm not going to be suprised to see a low-cost netbook arriving with Android, Chrome, Google Apps and a slew of open source applications on board. We may even see Google help fund the proliferation of these systems.

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by an anonymous user on Jan. 03, 2009

Possibly another benefit, this time for Linux distros, would be that they got a front runner. The strong one.

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by smart phone on Mar. 25, 2010

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Android software for iPad type devices is long overdue. Google needs to step up its game. http://www.revelmob.com/blog/mobile-apps-or-smartphone-applications

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