Android booting on Acer Aspire One
By Benny Har-Even in Editorial
Posted in Android, netbooks on
Acer held a press conference today at which they announce several new products. The star of the show was the Acer Aspire One featuring Android. If you’re pondering on the wisdom of putting a mobile phone OS on a netbook, the chief advantage is boot time, and the quoted speed by Acer was 18 seconds. As you can see from this video (link only - embedding not working sorry)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXtXTPYkP8E
Once you’re at a usable desktop, it has to be said that it’s a little strange seeing Android, and mostly because you expect to be able to touch the screen, which this netbook isn’t.
The browser itself also look a little basic, but the notebook itself is a reasonably stylish piece of kit. We’ll give it a full work-over once we get one in the lab. On sale day is October 22nd, as Acer has to wait for Windows 7 to launch, because that’s on here too.
Also on show were some 3D notebooks - as in notebooks featuring displays compatible with 3D. There were some demo’s running, though naturally you can’t see how it looks as you need to be wearing polarised glasses as modelled by this gentleman.
The effect actually works very well indeed - I’m a fan. However, to get the effect just right you need to be standing quite a way from the screen, which means that you can’t reach the keyboard, which could be a problem for a notebook. That aside, I’ll be intrigued to see how these are received by the market. By which I mean people.
The intriguingly titled Liquid is also a nice looking handset and it feels quite good in the hand because and not despite the fact that its larger than many handset. We look forward to giving this one a good play when we get hold of one.
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