Dell demo Android OS 1.5 Cupcake on Mini 10v netbook [Video]

[storm14k]

@BigHeat

Remember thought that most if not all Linux distros now get their software from repositories. This was basically the front runner to the App Store/Market coming into play on smart phones now. The infrastructure is already there to make paid markets for the Linux distros.

Now what I just saw about the Moblin project may make sense. Its a Linux distro made by Intel for netbooks and apparently there are plans to include the Android framework so that it runs Android applications as well. You really can't beat that idea.

[waltinseattle]

Considering how ellegant it would be, I don't expect any vendor to offer me a netbook with full phone capacity for a long long time. GRRRR
This is a nice "demo" but as I have forsworn SmallFlabby (MS) I have also a bias against the Intel Co who is currently under a huge fine for illegal bussiness practice. Though I understand that some of their chips are getting as power frugal as the Atom (from whom) and AMD still does not have a clear winner for me to jump on. Ethics, Preferences, whats on the shelf. Never the three shall meet?

[Andrude]

I'd rather see the Alienware phone first !

[johnkzin]

There are still things about Android I want to see changed before I'd use it on a netbook. They're the things that I do on my netbook now, often exactly because my G1 can't do them:

1) full Gmail (send as, edit/create filters, edit/create labels, view attachments in Google Docs)
2) full Google Reader (keyboard shortcuts, add/edit tags)
3) full Google Docs (edit documents, view all types of documents)
4) full IM client (more than 1 active IM account at a time, more than 1 account per service (incl. Google Talk), more Jabber servers than just Google Talk, IRC servers, chat logs in plain text on the SD card)
5) integration between SSH and VNC (ConnectBot and AndroidVNC ... but the latter still doesn't seem to actually work properly with VNC passwords; at least not when tunneled through Connectbot) (a novelty to do it on my phone, a MUST to do it on my netbook, where I often remote control my mac workstations or unix servers).
6) USB storage devices
7) external display support
8) external keyboard and mouse support
9) more bluetooth profiles (if it doesn't have an internal 3G option, then BT tethering via DUN or PAN is a must; but I'd also like to see BT FTP, HID, and BIP)

That said, if Dell made a 9" or 10" convertible tablet version of their netbook line, and had a version of Android that addressed all of those things, I'd certainly be interested.