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It seems that the speculation about whether we’ll see netbooks powered by the Google Android operating system is gaining some momentum. A company called Skytone based in China are advertising Android netbooks on their website as reported by techradar.com. Rumours are also hotting up that MSI are about to reveal an Android netbook and certainly other manufacturers have been experimenting with Android.

It makes sense. Android was developed for the mobile environment as it was originally designed for the mobile phone. It’s a Google product hence web centric and optimised for the web. It’s also free and open source. Microsoft’s Windows 7 isn’t scheduled to be launched until later this year or early 2010 so the marketplace is wide open for a better, cheaper, more open solution. A Google product has the advantage of wider customer acceptance than Linux. It’s name that is known and trusted by a broader base.

It will be interesting to see how this develops. It will probably mean even cheaper netbooks optimised for the mobile environment which has to be a good thing.

VentureBeat have an excellent write up on netbooks and Android for anyone wanting to delve a bit deeper into the technical aspects.

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