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Android port to MIPs completed

Posted by caitlyn on · 4 comments
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Embedded Alley (EA) announced it is has completed its port of the Linux/Java-based Android platform to the MIPS architecture. The Embedded Alley Development System for Android-based Devices initially targets devices ranging from set-top boxes (STBs) to industrial equipment running the MIPS-based RMI Au1250 processor.

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What the article doesn't really mention...

Is that there are a growing number of MIPS netbooks and even desktops that could conceivably now run Android. ARM isn't the only non-Intel architecture that's being exploited now.

Microsoft 'kinda' leaves netbook market

caitlyn Story submitter ·
That has been Microsoft's strategy all along. By effectively pushing the specs up into notebook range they can do away with the netbooks as a separate niche. Of course, all the ARM and MIPS systems with low power consumption, long battery life, low prices, and no Windows are the big threat now. They also return to the original EeePC form factor.
They had their UMPC's, MS.

But they failed; no keyboard; and probably too small for a netbook; too big and clumsy for a phone. I'm still surprised this whole thing was started by a project today thought of as 'failure'; OLPC.

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