Ergo Electronics GoNote GNT10 Android Notebook
Monday, August 27, 2012 at 2:45AM The GoNote looks pretty good for the price if you ask me. A touch screen notebook with Android 4.0 for just £149. Tempted...
The Ergo Electronics GoNote is an innovative Android notebook.
Unlike most Android products on the market today, the GoNote has a laptop/notebook form factor but does not run Windows like many netbooks. Instead it runs the highly customisable, efficient and appealing Google Android OS, version 4.0.
The GoNote is a blend of laptop design with smartphone power and productivity, designed to offer you an attractive and cost effective mobile working solution.
A 10" touchscreen (you don’t see that on other netbooks) makes up the main display, but a QWERTY keyboard and trackpad with left and right mouse buttons make for a more productive and simpler way to enter content and control the notebook.
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If it looks too good to be true...
This looks to be Europe only AFAICT. At the price though, there's not much to lose. And it's cheaper than a 10" tablet, any 10" tablet. I'd like to see review on this because it does look interesting.
My Netbook has died and I'm looking for a replacement. This looks interesting. Like Donald I'm looking forward to some reviews
Android makes a perfect OS for a Netbook.
We just disposed of our last Netbook (an Asus EeePC), but I found that the little Atom processor struggled with Windows XP. At least Android will run considerably better on the same class of CPU.
And like previously stated, it does look good, and I spy a couple of USB and an ethernet port on the side. I do wonder as to the functions of the 2 back arrows and histogram in the bottom "command ribbon".
It just needs a more modern look. The form factor is ugly. With such low specs they should be able to make a slim, better looking notebook. OK, there must be some space for RJ45 and USB ports, but... If Apple gets this idea, they will make a gorgeous notebook.
For those of you with netbooks I thought you might be interested in the Android port at http://www.android-x86.org/ which I just discovered. The hard drive controller in my Netbook died but I realised that I could install this on a USB stick. They didn't have an Acer version so I tried the Asus one. It's a little rough round the edges but it works and I now have a resurrected Netbook with Android 4 and most of my Apps running. Obviously, unlike the device above, there is no touchscreen but mouse control works fine. Suspend doesn't yet work so you have to shutdown and reboot but it only takes about 15 seconds to do that.
I installed it from a USB stick onto a MicroSD card so that data would be kept across reboots. If anyone is interested in how to do that I can explain.