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BenQ has announced that they will coming out with phones based on Google Android OS next year. Not only phones, they even plans to join Android Netbook market.

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Soon after ASUS and Acer recently announced their plans to launch Android powered netbooks this year, ECS unveiled their Android powered netbooks at the Computex 2009 show.

The following videos shows the netbook, running Android :

[via talkandroid]

Acer has announced its plans to launch Android powered netbooks in the fourth quarter of 2009. Recently, ASUS had also reported its decision to launch Android powered “smartbook”.

“Today’s netbooks are not close to perfection at all. In two years, it will all be very different,” Jim Wong, Acer’s global president for IT products, said at a news conference at Computex show, recently held in Taipei, “If we do not continue to change our mobile Internet devices, consumers may not choose then any more.”

There are no reports about the pricing or the specifications. But, probably, it will run on Atom processor.

Every other day, we get news of an Android powered netbook being launched by some company. Will this prove to be a big threat to the current netbooks OS giant, Microsoft ?

May be, its too early to predict. Android is a new OS and its success or failure will, to a large extent, depend on the kind of and the number of applications that will be able to run on it.

[via nytimes]

Imagine running Google Android on a small netbook. Feels marvelous, isn’t it ? This is going to be turned  into reality, very soon. ASUS demoed its Android powered Eee PC, running on Snapdragon Chipset, by Qualcomm.

Qualcomm calls it the ultrathin netbook a “smartbook”. It consumes extremely low power. So, it requires no cooling, hence it is a fanless device. This contributes to its thin built.

Here’s the video showing the “smartbook” :

Lets just hope that this “smartbook” paves the way for many more netbooks in the Android world.

[via androidcentral]