Android-powered netbooks by the end of 2009?

[johnkzin]

For me to be interested in an android netbook, it would have to have:

1) Google Reader has to be fixed so that I can use keyboard shortcuts and edit tags

2) GMail has to be fixed to support everything that real Gmail does (the super-stars, saving searches, etc.: all of the "labs" features; plus it has to allow me to edit/create filters)

3) Convertible Tablet format, with a 7" - 8" screen

4) Some form of WWAN data connection. Maybe tethering against my G1, but the best path would be a user accessible internal PCI-Express-Mini card, with available antenna wires, so that users could buy a card that matches the carrier they want to use.

5) Bluetooth HID, so I can use an external keyboard/mouse

6) USB Host, so I can attach more storage

7) 1, preferrably 2, full size SDHC card slots, and an internal 1.8" drive (HDD, Flash, SSD options) for main storage.

8) Outstanding battery life.

9) VNC viewer and VNC server (both supporting VNC password authentication). Right now, you mostly can do those, but they're 3rd party and the viewer doesn't support passwords. I'd want to be able to view remote devices, as well as export my display to my workstaiton.

10) Android optimized Google Docs, with read/write, not read-only.

11) SyncML client.

12) The netbook, and my G1, to support Bluetooth HID, BIP, and hands-free profiles in a way that I could remote control my G1 from the netbook (send and receive SMS and MMS, initiate calls, reject or answer incoming calls, etc.).


I don't need shell access to the underlying Linux layer. ConnectBot to SSH out to remote devices is good enough to satisfy my need for a shell. I don't need to have local shell access on every device I own ;-) I would want/need ConnectBot to look decent, with 80x24 characters, on this device, though.

I haven't tried the IM clients on the G1, but I would want a very solid IM experience to be available as well. At least as good as Pidgin and AdiumX.

Give me all of that, for under $500, and I'll buy it.