Google Android on the Asus EeePC

2008 saw the release of the Google G1 phone using the Android operating system.

Though the battery life was slammed by many the operating system was praised as very innovative.

It would appear that Android was not just developed for mobile phones according to Venture Beat, who have installed Android on an Asus EeePC.

Google Android on the Asus EeePC

The image above shows a netbook Asus EEEPC 1000H running on Google’s mobile operating system Android. Huh? You thought Android was for mobile phones, right? Well, as we’ve written before, Google is planning to use Android for any device — not just the mobile phones.

The article shows how the development team installed and could run Android on the EeePC and speculate that we will see Google Netbooks running Android in 2010!

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