Acer India launches Aspire D250 Android in India for $400

We mentioned last month that Acer would be launching its first Android netbook in the month of November and according to the latest news bits, Acer India has already rolled out Aspire D250 Android version in India for a fairly low price of $400 (Rs 18599). At this price, you get Windows XP and Android OS, both in one machine.

Specifications have undergone no change at all. It still uses Atom N280, 160GB HDD, 1GB RAM and GMA 950 chipset. It is better to stick with GMA 950 than having something like GMA 500 under the hood which just did not give us good performance while reviewing the VAIO X.

According to netbook india, Android is yet to take off in India, so it may not be considered as the coolest feature on the netbook.

Skytone Alpha 680 netbook having troubles with Android OS

Remember the Skytone Alpha 680 netbook that we mentioned few months back? (see this and this if you have forgotten). Well, we are back with some more news.

According to Le Journal, the device is NOT in any position to hit the market anytime soon as the Android OS, at least on this netbook, is not enough stable. This means that you will have to wait for few more months to get your hands on this Android-based netbook.

On the other hand, Acer is working hard on their Android netbook, which will be out just before the holiday season starts. Acer is the way to go since you get the best of both worlds (it runs both Windows and Android OS underneath).

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

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.