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Article: ARM: Android needs more work before it will sing on netbooks.
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- Network World Middle East
- Article date:
- June 7, 2009
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Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff)
Echoing comments by other industry experts, an ARM Holdings plc executive said that "more work" is needed to make Google Inc.'s Android operating system work well on ARM-based netbooks.
"I do think that there is more work that can and will be done to bring the things we love about Android into form factors [such as netbooks]", Kerry McGuire, director of strategic alliances at ARM, told Computerworld. Android, she acknowledged, is still optimized for smartphones.
Netbooks running the Android platform on an ARM-based chip platform, recently dubbed smartbooks, are widely expected to pose a major challenge to netbooks running ...