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What do they mean by Android 4.0 (PC System)? How is it a PC and not just Android?

• adam-a 14y ago
  Taking PC literally as personal computer I suppose, as in desktop computer, rather than specifically IBM compatible.
• yareally 14y ago
  Pretty much every Android device I have encountered phone or tablet wise could at least chroot and allow the user to partition off and install some other version of Linux along side Android. So, though it comes with Android, you could probably get Debian, Fedora or whatever running on there as well.
• josteink 14y ago
  Most Android builds comes touch-optimized and configured out of the box to cater to touch-users. It might be a build which has more defaults tuned towards non-touch input like keyboard and mice. I know if you tried to run Android on Netbooks using the 2.x codebase (which was possible) you'd have a horrible user-experience due to the platform's limited support for non-touch input-devices. With Android 4.x the support for these has been improved to the point where you can call the thing a "PC" and almost use it as such. They may just be referring to this. I don't know.
• mhd 14y ago
  If I read "PC" here, I'd expect something other than "phone" and "tablet" mode, i.e. a proper multi-tasking desktop view. But AFAIK that's not available, although there have been hints about something like that in 5.0.