Android to help VIA (and others) into tablet market

The Epoch Times is citing a report called 'Impact of Connected Tablets on the CE Market – 2010 Interim Report', which suggests that tablets using the Android operating system could hold almost 30% market share by the end 2015. I actually think that this prediction is quite low. If you're really going to count the worldwide market share then you have to count the huge number of Android tablets that are already being pumped out in China. These models are often inspired by the iPad design, but with smaller 7-inch screens and of course sporting the free Android operating system. I've seen quite a number of them sporting VIA Wondermedia chips.

Cheap and tiny netbooks on eBay sport VIA CPUs

If you want a netbook for under AUD 100, check out eBay where you'll find small VIA Arm-based netbooks. This one has a buy now price of 87.99. It's got a 7" screen, 300MHz CPU and 128MB RAM. With those specs I'd probably call it a MID or a smartbook more than a netbook. Youd' have to use this for pretty basic stuff and although it's capable of multitasking, it would be pretty slow at doing it. There's a discussion about it on the whirlpool forums.