ASUS to choose between Android and Chrome for tablets and smartbooks

21st January, 2010 by adina
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A ZDNet report is revealing that the Taiwanese PC manufacturer ASUS is now testing smartbooks that run on both Chrome and Android operating systems and is also thinking to add an ARM-based PC to the Intel-powered Eee PC netbooks. Jonney Shih, ASUS chairman, has mentioned this in a recent interview. He also said that the company would try to find out which is the size of the market ready to sacrifice the compatibility of applications offered by Windows-powered Intel netbooks and accept lower cost devices running on ARM CPU and Linux-based systems. Information from Jonney Shih was also that ASUS was developing a slate or tablet device.

Shih and other personalities at ASUS that were the pioneers of the netbooks with the Eee PC in 2007 still believe that netbooks should be simple and low-cost devices. Comparing Android and Chrome, the latter is newer, but is “more suitable” for this category of devices, as Shih declared, and has a better multi-tasking.

Asked about a slate PC in the style of the Apple’s one, Jonney Shih was wondering if such a device between a smartphone and a netbook was needed and said that the market deserved more consideration. He believes that such a product can be successful if it has a large amount of content, which would include e-books, games, music and videos on demand. And he acknowledges that ASUS has such a device in development.


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