The Gigabyte Brix is probably the best device for Tizen Common atm: http://techreport.com/news/26484/bay-trail-brix-has-dual-cores-no-fans But we need a UI, guys !
Regards, Olivier On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Leon Anavi <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2014-08-20 10:55, Olivier Nyssen wrote: > >> Thanks Leon, very interesting indeed. >> Could you provide some info about the connectivity of these tablets >> with Tizen: wifi, bluetooth, etc >> > > The connectivity depends on the hardware capabilities of the tablet as > well as the drivers for it. > > Right now a Tizen:Common image can run on A20-OLinuXino-MICRO with enabled > network over a LAN cabel. You can remotely log into the development board > over SSH, UART or even SDB through TCP/IP. I have a couple of wifi usb > dongles but at the moment it is not among my priorities to try them out > because the issues that I described in my previous message are more > important. > > Best regards, > Leon > > >> 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/ [1] >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/general [2] >> >> >> >> Links: >> ------ >> [1] http://anavi.org/ >> [2] https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/general >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/general >> > > -- > http://anavi.org/ > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/general >
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