Office Home And Student 2010 HP announces Android

Updated with HP declaration on geographic availability.
Hewlett-Packard has announced that its Compaq division will kick off a netbook that employs the same standard 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,Office Pro Plus, a “92 percent full size” keyboard,Microsoft Office 2007 Professional Plus,16 GB solid state internal storage, an SD card slot, a fully multitasking Android working program and a touch interface.
The interface features a new touch-based tabbed browser,Office 2010 Professional Plus Key, 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 2007, a major cellphone conference in Barcelona on Monday. As for where the AirLife will be available, an HP spokesman emailed me,Office Home And Student 2010, “It will be southern Europe and Latin America to start with. We will announce country availability at start by Telefonica.”
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