Updated with HP statement on geographic availability.
Hewlett-Packard has announced that its Compaq division will kick off a netbook that employs exactly the same standard Android working method 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,
Windows 7 32 Bit, a “92 percent full size” keyboard,
Windows 7 Home Premium,16 GB solid state internal storage, an SD card slot, a fully multitasking Android running program and a touch interface.
The interface features a new touch-based tabbed browser, a touch-based way to zoom web pages,
Microsoft Office 2010 Standard, and a touch-optimized media apps and shortcut menu.
HP’s announcement is timed to the start of Mobile World Congress,
Discount Office 2007, a major cellphone conference in Barcelona on Monday. As for where the AirLife will be available, an HP spokesman emailed me,
Windows 7 License, “It will be southern Europe and Latin America to start with. We will announce country availability at kick off by Telefonica.”
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