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Quoted – Linuxinsider – Dell building Android Powered Internet Device

http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/67473.html?wlc=1246629342

In pursuing this path, Dell may be looking for another way to differentiate itself in the netbook market — though a pocket-sized Internet device is not a netbook, noted Scott Testa, a marketing consultant and professor of marketing at St. Joseph’s University.

Still, using Android and the ARM architecture could give product makers such as Dell a lower-cost product. At a time when PC devices and smartphones are converging, a return to the PDA mentality could offer Dell some possibilities, he said.

“There is no license fee and no Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) tax to pay for the operating system. I can see an opening for them,” Testa told LinuxInsider.

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