Acer to be the first netbook manufacture to OFFICIALLY launch Google Android Netbooks!

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Although myriad of netbook manufactures have announced that they will be making Google Android netbooks, but the Acer is going to be the one that will officially launching them in the year 2009 itself. At first, we thought that it was going to be the ASUS that would launch Android Netbooks at the end of this year, but then we heard about news that they have postponed the production to the next year, 2010.

Jim Wong, Acer’s global president of IT products and services said something which really captured my attention,

‘If we do not continue to change our mobile Internet devices, consumers may not choose then any more.”

But, why would one need to run a mobile phone OS on a netbook? True, it will help them to save few dollars, but then we can achieve (almost) desktop-class productivity when using an OS like Windows XP/Vista/7.

Good news is that Acer is not downgrading the processor to ARM and they have decided to stick with the powerful Intel Atom platform.

[via reuters]

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