There’s no shortage of cheap Chromebooks and Windows laptops these days. But when Indian mobile carrier Reliance Jio was looing to add a cheap 4G-ready laptop to its line of products, the company apparently settled on a different operating system: Android. According to a report from xda-developers, India’s largest mobile network has been working with […]
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Primebook is a low-cost laptop that runs Android-based PrimeOS
When you think of Android you probably think of smartphones, or maybe tablets, watches, or TVs. But over the past few years we’ve seen a couple different companies attempt to turn Google’s mobile operating system into something you can comfortably run on a desktop. Jide’s Remix OS was a high-profile attempt, but it’s pretty much […]
HP SlateBook 14 Android laptop is now shipping
The HP SalteBook 14 is a notebook with a 14 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel touchscreen display, up to 9 hours of battery life and 2GB of RAM. It also happens to feature an NVIDIA Tegra 4 processor and Google Android 4.3 Jelly Bean software instead of Windows. First announced in June, the HP SlateBook […]
Archos Android laptop hits the FCC
Archos plans to begin selling a 10 inch notebook running Google Android for about $170 soon. While it’s called the ArcBook on the Archos website, it looks like the laptop might have another name… or Archos could have another model in the works. A product called the Archos Droid Book showed up at the FCC recently, […]
Android netbook with RockChip RK2918 CPU shows up in China
Charbax from ARMdevices is visiting a trade show in China this week and one of the more unusual devices he spotted is a mini-laptop with an ARM-based processor and Google Android operating system. That’s not too unusual, since we’ve been seeing cheap Chinese netbooks with Android for the past few years, but there are a […]
NEC shows off a 7 inch mini-laptop with Tegra 2
Charbax from ARMDevices spotted something I missed at CES last week: A 7 inch netbook with an NVIDIA Tegra 2 chip from NEC. The little guy has a full QWERTY keyboard as well as special keys for Android functions such as Hme, Back, and Menu. The screen also features a resistive touch panel. That said, […]