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ASUS Demos Android Netbook Powered by Qualcomm

Adding to the momentum surrounding the Android operating system, Asus is demonstrating a netbook powered by a 1-GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset at the Computex show in Taipei. Many people believe that Android has a bright future on netbooks, especially as mobile applications proliferate for it. Android appears to be very snappy running on the Qualcomm chip, which offers 720p video playback support. You can see a video of the demonstration here. 

• Android
• netbook
• Qualcomm
• Snapdragon

by Lee on Jun. 01, 2009

Well that's stupid. ASUS have a (Microsoft-funded) site saying that Windows is better than Linux, so why in God's name would they go making Android-(linux-)powered stuff? Unless they're simply shills who'll say anything for money, of course.

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by Anna Medlin on Jun. 01, 2009

Haha - well, the good news about netbooks is that they battle is just starting up, so let us see how well Android or Ubuntu do.

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