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Android Mini PC

October 12, 2010 by Noah
The device of my dreams: a no strings attached, open Android-powered device, which is like a smartphone (touch screen etc.), but which is not a phone, but can get a data plan from any cell carrier in the same way that laptops can use 3G cards and get internet anywhere from a cell phone carrier.

It would basically be a miniature PC that resembles an Android phone, but which isn't a phone, but which you can just install Skype on if you really need to make a phone call, since it could still get cellular data service.

And, being like a miniature PC, it would be as open to operating systems as a real PC; it would be just as easy to install and reinstall Android firmwares (or any compatible OS) to it as it would reinstalling your operating system on your laptop.

I imagine Dell would be a good manufacturer for such a device; they would market it just like they market netbooks, as being just a mini PC that happens to run Android (preferably the stock vanilla Android as Google intended it, but being open you could flash any version of Android you want).

If such a device existed I would buy it as soon as it came out. I'm quite sick of the way phone carriers abuse the Android OS and wish there could just be a seriously open device.

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Anonymous posted on October 17, 2010 @ 22:52 UTC

i miss you

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JC posted on November 23, 2012 @ 12:53 UTC

Hi Kirsle,

is this what you mean?

http://www.fanlesstech.com/2012/10/j-launches-android-mini-pc-for-9990.html

Cheers jc

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Gert posted on March 24, 2013 @ 12:13 UTC

MK808 or MK809 is NICE. Google them

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