Just getting to read the March 9 issue of ComputerWorld magazine… there’s an interesting article by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols speculating that Linux-based phone operating system by Google – Android – is being considered for development as an OS for mobile Internet devices like netbooks. Asus Computers is already working on the marriage of Android with the “desktop” environment so, by year’s end, it’s thought that someone may come out with a low-cost laptop powered by Android.
I do wonder about software… would the proposed netbooks run purely on web-based solutions? Run OpenOffice? I suppose the answer would be whatever the Google phone can use could be run. Let’s see where this goes.