How About an iPhone OS Or Android-Based Netbook?

Posted by timothy on Sunday November 23, 2008 @11:31PM from the upsides-and-downsides dept.

perlow (Jason Perlow of ZDNet) suggests that the current crop of netbooks might be missing the boat when it comes to getting maximum battery life and small-screen usability, and asks "Could Mac OS X iPhone or Google's Android be the key to mass adoption of the next generation of netbooks?" Android looks pretty nice, I admit, but so far I like having full-fledged Ubuntu on my own small computer. He's not the first one to think that the iPhone would be well-employed as the guts of an ultra-portable, though. (Note: it's only a model.)

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Local port of Google Docs? by Daengbo · 2008-11-23 23:43 · Score: 0, Troll

There is one caveat here, and it would have to be addressed â" currently, thereâ(TM)s no OpenOffice port to Androidâ(TM)s Dalvik JVM, so Google would have to get a comparable productivity solution for Java working, run a local port of Google Docs, or port X.Org to Android to make the regular OpenOffice implementation work on either ARM or x86.

WTF is a "local port" of Google Docs? It's a webbapp, forchissakes!

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