Acer has confirmed that it module be the prototypal consort to board Android-based netbooks, with the budget ultraportables due to impact the mart in Q3 2009.  The Android netbooks module go on understanding alongside Acer’s Windows-based range, kinda than exchange it, and be supported on Intel’s Atom processor. 

According to Acer’s orbicular chair for IT products, Jim Wong, “today’s netbooks are not near to state at all” and that “if we do not move to modify our ambulatory internet devices, consumers haw not opt them some more.”  However there’s ease impact to be finished fettling Android in its netbook guise: “we’ll ease hit to wager what category of applications the Android code crapper separate on and how steady it module be” commented Vincent Chen, an shrink at Yuanta Securities.

No limited promulgation dates hit been shared, beyond the Q3 window, and Wong declined to interpret on doable pricing.  Analysts hit previously estimated that a Windows XP authorise adds $25 to the outlay of the cipher netbook; Microsoft hit justified that by claiming buyers are hunting for a kindred ambulatory surround as they are utilised to on their desktops.  Earlier this year, Compal - the OEM behindhand Acer’s Aspire One netbooks - were tipped to be developing an Android netbook.