On Wed, 9 Nov 2011 21:32:19 +0100 (CET) Alexander Lehner <leh...@edv-buero-lehner.de> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, elf Pavlik wrote: > > > Someone have just showed me yesterday this one: > > http://wetab.mobi/en/ > > > > It says 'Open Software, Open Hardware' but don't seam to me like > > open source hardware... Still it runs version of MeeGo as you can > > see on this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOBUdiPZ1hA > > Ha, I applied to this company a few years ago, when the product was > still in the pre-alpha phase. I guess it was shortly after the Neo > came out and I was interested in opensource development. > I didn't take the job for other personal reasons. > But there already the whole sofware and hardware stack seemed not > open at all. > > So if you take all disadvantages of the NEO and the > iPad, you will get this 'weTab'. (Sorry weTab-guys for the hard > criticism). Similair to FIC/OpenMoko, their business plan seems not > to work out. And I guess there is no community around the weTab at > all. > > Maybe also have a look at the new 1-Laptop-per-Child XO/3 tablet > (german news site): > http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/OLPC-Gruender-will-Tablets-mit-dem-Hubschrauber-verteilen-1374592.html > (Hardware is still a mock-up, of course...) > > I still prefer the 'wooden-case' version after all these > discussions ;) > WeTab is quite awesome, WeTab OS... not so much :) I'm running Fedora 16 with GNOME and Enlightenment on my weTab. Running Enlightenment is almost like a Moko tablet :) Much better support than most arm devices all around with Free Software drivers. Rui _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community