FXI has a usb stick with Android presented. The stick only needs a computer to be connected, whereupon the mobile operating system is booted and usable from the system, promises the manufacturer.
The so-called Cotton Candy has a lot of internal components have many similarities with modern smartphones. The device is equipped with a Samsung Exynos 4210 processor clocked at 1.2 GHZ. In addition, the Mali gpu from ARM and a micro-sd and bluetoothaansluiting. According to FXI have the Cotton Candy only on a computer to be connected, then Android 2.3 start-up and visible on the screen.
New is the idea not; manufacturer BlueStacks released in early October, a test version of its Android emulator for Windows. The program runs by means of virtualization only applications, and not the entire Android environment. Although BlueStacks a number of well-known applications supports games like Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja still unplayable. With the Cotton Candy you can, claims The Verge. The technologiesite has the device been tested on a Macbook Air. According to the website it was possible to use the stick to Angry Birds with the touch pad of the Mac to be able to play. Also, the stick on a tv via hdmi can be connected to Android on a large screen. This would be a bluetooth keyboard working are seen.
The Cotton Candy has, as yet, not on other popular third-party applications; the Android Market is not included. Or that in the future is going to change, is still unclear. The Android stick will reportedly be under the two hundred dollar cost and mid-2012 release.
