I-Buddie shows off its Android netbook prototype
By Nilay Patel 
posted Apr 21st 2009 12:03AM
posted Apr 21st 2009 12:03AM
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Definitely an MID. I can't type on those tiny netbook keyboards anyway.
Not even fanboy should say that looks good! This is crap on top of crap.
Off to a pretty good start i guess, considering it never left the home page
i-buddy, (echo) i-buddy , i-buddy and me.
I hate not being able to watch youtube clips from my dorm... but I am wondering why you would really want android in a laptop form factor? Isn't it designed specifically for phones? I would MUCH rather have some form of ubuntu or even windows 7 on a netbook, simply because they are more suited for things like text editing as well as already having a TON of applications already created. Also, aren't all of the apps so far for android pretty much built with the G1's hardware in mind?
well, I already have a netbook.. wouldn't mind running some Android on it! Although the MID definitely looks like a better application of Android.
The more Android the better. Bring it on!
I swear, If I never see the default android home screen again, it will be too soon.
Anyhow, these netbooks remind me of the Windows CE-powered palmtops from the dark ages of mobile computing. The thing that really killed the palmtop in the end was the fact that a PocketPC form factor handled Contacts/Calendar quite well. That, and network connectivity wasn't that great.
If you could create a device that sucks down email, and has a decent browser, sure, why not? The only thing is, you need to make the price match what the damn thing does. It's gotta be no more than 200, otherwise nobody's going to buy it.
If android is linux then why not just run a netbook remix version of linux? or , just add the android gui on top of existing linux distros, would it not be the same?
Android isn't a GUI, its a complete operating system. That's like me trying to run a different desktop system like KDE or GNOME on windows.
Soo... It's possible, but it ain't pretty?
http://cygnome.sourceforge.net/
http://windows.kde.org/
shouldn't they try and get it in more then one phone first. Well that's actually for sale. This kinda looks like Fisher Price though. It could use a better case.
I-Buddie != Google
This might be cool.
As long as you can use the internet, email with a good res screen it might turn out as a very good netbook OS.
Also all those cool apps that you can load on the G1 might be cool if you could use them on your netbook as well!!!
Totally pointless, IMO.
Android falls in the back of a long list of more appropriate OSes for a netbook...
What really needs to happen here is not a port, but a completely retooled UI that actually makes sense for netbooks (Think HP Mini Mi). Keep all of the google apps such as calender, market etc but change everything else.
I'm tired of that analogue clock
FUTURE........FFFUTURE.....future
It'll make for a pretty good machine if they go through the trouble of customizing the build for the hardware and writing a home screen that actually makes sense on the hi-res monitor.
For a netbook with Android, I'd want:
a) convertible tablet/swivel screen format (pref. 7" or 9" screen)
b) full gmail (send as, create/edit filters, create labels)
c) full google reader (keyboard shortcuts, add/edit tags)
d) full google docs (read/write, all formats)
e) full IM (more than 1 identity per service, more than 1 service active at a time, more jabber servers that just google talk)
f) better VNC viewer support, and better integration with ConnectBot (not so much Google's fault, but still something that's necessary for me on a netbook).
g) definitely a 3G option
Until someone delivers those things, I'm not interested in an Android netbook. But... if someone does deliver those, I think Android would do fine in a netbook device.
It doesn't seem much different from when some guy installed Android on an EEE-PC. I think the operating system is in need of some kind of window manager before it is be suitable for larger screens. Perhaps we'll see it in version 2.0.
The only thing I can say about this is, BFD! So, they're putting a Linux based OS - Android - on a netbook and trying to make money off of it. What's so new, special and different about that that would make somebody want to buy one? Nothing! I can already buy an Eee PC with Linux installed for a couple of hundred bucks.
Now, if they put Android on a nice 3.5" - 5.0" capacitive touch screen mid+phone type device that would be something special.
Android running on Classmate PC
http://kronox.org/?p=31
What's the point on having Android on a netbook/computer with a mouse?
The point in the menu on Android was to make it easier for small touch screens, the Windows taskbar is more appropriate with a cursor, or any device with a screen larger then a phone's, especially the Windows 7 taskbar.
" . . . would you rather have an Android netbook or a more MID-style device like the Movit Mini? We're leaning MID. Video after the break."
Let me answer with this exchange:
Marge: Do you want your son to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, or a sleazy male stripper?
Homer: Can't he be both, like the late Earl Warren?
Marge: Earl Warren wasn't a stripper!
Homer: Now who's being naïve?!
Am I wrong people?
Android os look like window 95 with horse crap on it. Worst looking os ever! Epic fail! >_