Android gets everywhere: on laptops, voice recorders and … – La Nacion (Argentina)

A computer of $ 79, a device Philips to record interviews and a grounder with touch screen and 4 GB of RAM are some of the curious forms that adopts the mobile operating system Android beyond their presence in smartphones and tablets

A Leeco Le Superbike, with an onboard computer that uses Android.

There are about 1400 million devices using Android, Google’s operating system. This domain is based on the great adoption was within the smartphone and tablets. However, given its flexibility, manufacturers had contrived to implement it in different electronic equipment.

It is the experience of Samsung when it used Android for its line of cameras Galaxy K Zoom, a compact combining the operating system of Google with a touch screen and an optical zoom. With various official adaptations of the company, Android also to TVs, cars and watches extended.

There is also room for curious implementations, such as Android bike Leeco, the firm known as Netflix china to develop a line of smartphones and smart TVs, and its prototype car LeSEE. In this case, rolled Le Syvrac follows the model of a mountain traditional bike, but incorporates an Android device with a touch screen 4 inches, a quad-core processor, 4 GB of RAM, laser pointers, a sensor heart rate, a camera and a speaker. It is only available in China, priced from $ 800 to $ 6000, if the configuration is chosen with a picture carbon fiber.

Philips, meanwhile, bet on a device that may sound a somewhat dated: a voice recorder, but with Wi-Fi and Android. It has a touch screen and a camera with barcode reader. The recordings are encrypted, and for the moment does not have a selling price

Android Philips put a particular digital voice recorder.; encrypts the contents and has a digital camera and a touchscreen.

While there are several computers that take advantage of Android unofficially, the implementation that attracted most attention in recent months was the Remix OS, an adaptation that is optimized for use with a physical keyboard and a mouse. While Google plans to integrate the universe of Android in Chrome OS to enter fully into the world of personal computers, Remix OS chose the opposite path and developed the adaptation of the mobile operating system on laptops.

At this point the Chinese chipmaker Remix OS Allwinner chose to be the operating system of its economic line of notebooks, according to a report by ARM Devices. The price? about $ 79 for a team with 11.6-inch screen resolution of 1366 by 768 pixels, ARM Cortex-A53 quad-core processor, 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage. As a smartphone, but with a large screen and physical keyboard

In this note.