BenQ, a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer, announced its intent to launch Android smartphone and netbook lines next year.
The company is joining the ranks of manufacturers choosing Android over Windows XP. It’s incredibly lightweight, having been designed by Google as an operating system for smartphones, and is particularly compatible with the multitude of Google tools like Gmail and Google Maps.
BenQ’s Joybook Lite netbook runs XP, its mobile phones run Symbian and it has one mobile device running Linux. However, the company has taken some hits to market share and profits and may be looking to diversify its line.
Few other details about a BenQ Android netbook are known, but if Computex Taipei is any clue it’s likely it would incorporate either an ARM CPU or the Qualcomm Snapdragon. Acer has displayed an Aspire One running the Atom, but that seems to be the exception.
Via PCWorld.
