Android on an Eee PC.... why?

Android on an Eee PC.... why?

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Venturebeat have successfully installed Google's Android operating system on an Eee PC and while these things are always cool from the "they installed X on Y" viewpoint we have to ask "why bother?".

Android is hyped by Google as an operating system for a variety of devices but currently it is just a mobile phone OS with a limited feature set whereas an Eee PC is a netbook designed to operate a full pc operating system. What is the point of artificially limiting a netbook capable of operating XP (or vista/ubuntu/macos etc)?

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Posted: January 4, 2009 by
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