Updated with HP assertion on geographic availability.
Hewlett-Packard has announced that its Compaq division will launch a netbook that utilizes exactly the same basic Android running system as Motorola’s Droid phones and Google’s Nexus One.
The Compaq AirLife 100 is a cloud-white netbook that HP will sell exclusively through Telefónica in Europe and Latin America this spring.
Gizmodo writer Jesus Diaz describes it as “an iPad for the Apple haters.”
The AirLife combines a 10.1-inch diagonal screen,
Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise, a “92 percent full size” keyboard,16 GB solid state internal storage, an SD card slot,
Office 2010 Professional Plus, a fully multitasking Android working program and a touch interface.
The interface features a new touch-based tabbed browser,
Office 2010 Product Key, a touch-based way to zoom web pages,
Office 2007 Pro Plus, and a touch-optimized media apps and shortcut menu.
HP’s announcement is timed to the start of Mobile World Congress,
Windows 7 Pro Key, a major cellphone conference in Barcelona on Monday. As for where the AirLife will be available, an HP spokesman emailed me, “It will be southern Europe and Latin America to start with. We will announce country availability at launch by Telefonica.”
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