Thanks Leon, very interesting indeed. Could you provide some info about the connectivity of these tablets with Tizen: wifi, bluetooth, etc
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Leon Anavi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I do not think that there a need for any company participating in the > Tizen Association to provide free Tizen tablets to developers right now. > There a lot of existing tablets on the market which are compatible with > Tizen. > > I have been experimenting with the open-source hardware development boards > of Olimex with Allwinner SoC and recently I bought a cheap tablet with > Allwinner A20 dual-core ARM CPU and Mali 400 GPU. I was able to boot > Tizen:Common image on it. The touchscreen was not working but it is a proof > of the concept for a low budget Tizen tablet. > > There are millions of tablets with Allwinner SoC on the market. You can > buy such tablet for less than $100. These tablets are shipped with Android > but Tizen can be booted from microSD card without affecting the original > Android image so as a result you will get a dual-boot tablet. > > I totally agree with Thiago that a tablet with Tizen:Common will not be > attractive for end consumers. In the same time such a tablet can be still > useful in certain cases: > * Developers will be interested in having a real Tizen device for Tizen > application development and debugging. > * Universities can work with the device in course related to operating > systems. I already had a contact with a couple of universities interested > in Tizen-sunxi because of this. > * Embedded developers and freelancers might be interested in a working > cheap device with screen and a decent case that they can easily integrate > in small projects for home automation or other IoT fields. The popular > existing Android and Debian images for Sunxi devices are not that good for > this and Tizen:Common can fit the gap. > > As a community we are not that far from offering Tizen:Common images for > Sunxi devices (aka devices with Allwinner SoC). There are 3 key issues that > we should solve: > 1. A Linux-sunxi kernel (forked from the Linux kernel) 3.10 or newer to > support the smack requirements in Tizen:Common. > 2. A working Mali driver of Tizen and Suxni devices. > 3. Support of Crosswalk (right now it is not working because of the issue > with Mali drivers) > > If these three issues are solved it should be possible to boot > Tizen:Common on OLinuXino, CubieBoard, Banana Pi and to deploy Tizen web > applications on them directly from Tizen IDE and/or SDB. > > Thanks, > Leon > > > On 2014-08-20 09:22, Thiago Macieira wrote: > >> On Tuesday 19 August 2014 21:50:09 Thiago Macieira wrote: >> >>> On Wednesday 20 August 2014 03:36:55 Olivier Nyssen wrote: >>> > Thanks for the replies, guys. >>> > A wifi tablet has many advantages imo: it's a very simple device, it >>> can >>> > be >>> > made rapidly and it doesn't interfere with existing marketing programs. >>> > This device would be a real "community" device, 100% open and >>> > experimental. >>> > Carsten: couldn't we use an Enlightenment UI on a Tizen tablet ? >>> >>> Who's going to pay for that device? >>> >> >> Let me make the question clear: why would one of the companies involved >> pay >> for such a device? >> >> Companies aren't involved out of the goodness of their hearts. They have a >> business objective behind the actions they do. So can you give me a >> business >> reason why one of the involved companies would fund a Tizen tablet? >> > > -- > http://anavi.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/general >
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