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Office Standard 2010
Updated with HP statement on geographic availability.
Hewlett-Packard has announced that its Compaq division will start a netbook that uses the same fundamental Android running method as Motorola’s Droid phones and Google’s Nexus One.
The Compaq AirLife 100 is a cloud-white netbook that HP will sell exclusively through Telefónica in Europe and Latin America this spring.
Gizmodo writer Jesus Diaz describes it as “an iPad for the Apple haters.”
The AirLife combines a 10.1-inch diagonal screen,
Microsoft Office 2010 Pro, a “92 percent full size” keyboard,
Office 2007 Standard Key,16 GB solid state internal storage,
Office Home And Student 2010 Key, an SD card slot, a fully multitasking Android operating technique and a touch interface.
The interface features a new touch-based tabbed browser, a touch-based way to zoom web pages, and a touch-optimized media apps and shortcut menu.
HP’s announcement is timed to the start of Mobile World Congress,
Office Home And Student 2010 Key, a major cellphone conference in Barcelona on Monday. As for where the AirLife will be available, an HP spokesman emailed me, “It will be southern Europe and Latin America to start with. We will announce country availability at launch by Telefonica.”
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