Acer Inc, the world's No. 3 PC brand, plans to sell a netbook PC that run on Google's Android operating system, posing a potential threat to Microsoft's Windows. Acer has confirmed the earlier announcement that it will be the first company to ship Android-based netbooks, with the budget ultraportables expected to hit the market in Q3 2009. The Android netbooks will go on sale alongside Acer’s Windows-based range, rather than replacing it, and be based on Intel’s Atom processor.
"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, told a news conference at Computex, the world's second-largest PC trade show held in Taipei. "If we do not continue to change our mobile Internet devices, consumers may not choose then any more." "When we are doing this new Android netbook, we are not going to make the other one go away," Wong said. "Both systems will still remain available to customers, and one will not go away because of the other."
Wang declined to give any shipment targets or prices for the Android netbooks, which will run on Intel's low-cost and low-performance Atom processor, but said the company would continue to ship netbooks with Microsoft Windows.
Wang declined to give any shipment targets or prices for the Android netbooks, which will run on Intel's low-cost and low-performance Atom processor, but said the company would continue to ship netbooks with Microsoft Windows.
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