Earlier today we reported on the Skytone netbook which comes pre-installed with Google Android. The Skytone is the first netbook that comes with Android as the standard operating system, without any hacking required. The HP Mini 2133 and Eee PC 1000H have already been hacked to run Android and now another netbook follows in the Android OS hacking trend. The Pantum iBuddie is also capable of running Google’s operating system.

Specs of the netbook are pretty standard. It comes with a 10.2 inch screen, 1GB of RAM, Intel Atom N270 processor and a 160GB hard drive. GeunSik Lim, who hacked his iBuddie has uploaded a video of the netbook running Android which you can view below.

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Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer recently spoke about his company’s plans for the future, and he quite nonchalantly revealed that they’re waiting for Google to release a netbook version of their currently for-smartphones-only Android mobile OS. Google’s Android already competes with Windows Mobile in the worldwide smartphone market, and if this happens, then the two companies will have yet another arena to fight each other to the death in. At the moment, Windows XP has succeeded in wiping out Linux from the netbook space little by little, but Android, although also open-source, is expected to be a different story. Google probably didn’t have making a netbook version of its OS in mind when it started out on Android, but companies like Asus have already confirmed that products with this open source operating system are already in the pipeline.

Via Guardian