HP Flirting with Android for Netbooks?

Netbooks are all the rage, but your OS choices basically boil down to Windows XP or Linux. But now, HP is said to be considering Google’s smartphone OS.

Hewlett-Packard Co is studying uses for Google Inc’s Android operating system, but the world’s top PC maker stopped short of saying it had decided to adopt the fledgling software in its products.

…The Wall Street Journal, citing sources, reported HP is testing Android for a possible netbook. HP currently sells netbooks that run both Windows XP and the open-source Linux operating system.

Keep in mind that a netbook version of Windows 7 is in the works. Things could get interesting in netbook land…

Source: Reuters

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Tagged as: Android, Google, Hewlett-Packard, HP, Linux, netbook, operating system, OS, Windows 7

by Pedro Hernandez on April 1, 2009 · 0 comments