http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/ Engadget Comments for Compaq Airlife 100 exclusively available to Telefónica customers for 229 euros in May http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/Apr 28th 2010 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/Apr 28th 2010 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/Apr 28th 2010 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/Apr 28th 2010 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/PC development is not the same for many reasons, but if you really insist on comparing the two: try booting your PC in 320x480 and see how many of your applications are still usable. And that's applications using UI toolkits specifically designed for resizable windows and accurate pointing devices, imagine how well things scale using a toolkit designed for full-screen touch-based controls across all these resolutions. Or across 6 different OS versions with different feature sets, which were all released in a 2 year time frame.

Besides that, incompetent hardware and awkward or inconsistent UI's are among the biggest annoyances many people have with PC's, but at least it has always been like this so people accept it. If Android ends up being one big mess of applications that may or may not work with your particular device, things will be very bad for the OS.
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Also fragmentation is an inherent problem since there are so many different hardware platforms Android can run on. You cannot argument fragmentation is much less a problem on the iPhone since there is only the iPhone and a bigger iPhone (a.k.a. iPad) to run those apps on. It's like comparing a swiss army knive to a normal knive just by looking at the weight. Sure the normal knive will win but then the comparison wasn't fair.]]>Apr 28th 2010 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/
but at least you dont have to buy an SDK for over 600 dollars and possibly a mac desktop/laptop for God knows what price.... its not that big a deal so stop being a douche... fan boy rhetoric is all you spew from what can be considered your new anal sphincter ...
in other words stop talking sh*t]]>Apr 28th 2010 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/
for when your data flow is too heavy for just an iPad!


.....was that bad enough?]]>Apr 28th 2010 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/Apr 28th 2010 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/Apr 28th 2010 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/
It doesn't say how long you are locked into this contract, but say it's for 2 years. That means that this ~$300 netbook is going to end up costing you about $1800 (converted to USD). Ridiculous.]]>Apr 28th 2010 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/Apr 28th 2010 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/Apr 28th 2010 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/Apr 28th 2010 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/Apr 28th 2010 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/compaq-airlife-100-exclusively-available-to-telefonica-customers/Probably because HP has not come up with dozens of bloatware for Android to be pre-installed on the thing, just for US customers.]]>Apr 28th 2010 3:48PM