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Remember those rumblings of Nokia jumping into the netbook game in the third quarter? An analyst from Lazard Capital Markets is claiming they’ve confirmed the netbook will be running Android and selling through carriers, although he’s saying it won’t hit the market until 2010. We’ve already seen developer pet projects showing Android running on portable computers, but that’s hardly more than a proof of concept. We’ll have to wait and see what (or if) Nokia brings to the table and if the Android OS is, in fact, a viable netbook operating system. Supposedly Dell and HTC have also been sniffing around the possibility of an Android-based netbook, so Windows’s dominance in the area may start seeing some resistance.
[via Gigaom]
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
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