Android-powered netbooks by the end of 2009?

[ghoonk]

Yeah okay.

You dont ask for much ei?

Yeah, and judging from how the other threads are going, everyone here expects upgrades for free too.

I'd love to see you guys buy a 3.6l Dodge Charger, then head back to the dealership demanding for the 5.7l Hemi engine as a free upgrade, and then a couple of months later, bitch about why you weren't entitled to the 2009 facelift as a free upgrade.

Lousy business to be in, selling a product to customers and then being expected to continually upgrade the OS with NEW features (vs bug fixes). Maybe Google should move towards a new business model -- bugfixes are free, major firmware upgrades not part of the original spec as advertised (e.g. Flash, address book upgrades, etc) as paid upgrades. This would certainly incentivize them to move out upgrades sooner with a justified business model to pay the developers who are spending months on adding new features, and then giving it out for free.

Last time I checked, Google was a publicly listed company, for a not-for-profit organization, and I'm surprised that shareholders don't kick up a stink about this. Especially since Apple made a pretty penny off people who paid to upgrade to the new iPhone firmware with new features.

[matse]

I have been searching the net how I can use my Netbook with an internal UMTS SIM card on my LG X110 Netbook, which came running on XP. I just want to use it as a phone using some Bluetooth earset. I haven't found anything like it. Granted operators might not like the idea of using a Data contract also for telephony initially, but an iphone contract e.g. will allow you to do so. Too me it's just a matter of marketeers finding the right pricing structure. And why not have data and speech in one (PC)?

So I turned to Android. All these discussions above seem to overlook the simple fact that Windows XP, MacOS and even Linux (I guess) on an Intel Processor have never considered using their OS for good old telephonecalls . If Android will be first, this might just be the platform of choice for the next leap forward.

If you have any suggestion how I can reach my goal in the interim or any others comments, I'd be happy if you would let me know.