Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-31 Thread Patryk Benderz
[cut] Also, there is NO SOURCE CODE available publicly (maybe with the exception of one github repository which seems to have at least some code) which means that all companies currently selling this device are violating the GPL. If you are sure above is true, it might be worth notifying

Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-31 Thread Shawn Rutledge
It's just Plasma Active on top of a meego-derived distro, right? http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active/Development You can boot a USB live image on some other touchscreen device to play around; I did that on my s10-3t last night. On 31 January 2012 14:31, Patryk Benderz patryk.bend...@esp.pl

Re: Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-31 Thread Harley Laue
On Monday, January 30, 2012 11:36:37 PM Neil Jerram wrote: Gay, John (GE Energy Services, Non-GE) john@ge.com writes: http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2012/01/reveal.html I hope it will be capable of running mainline kernels and any GNU/Linux ecosystem software, not just KDE. I think

Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-30 Thread Patryk Benderz
[cut] This look very interesting. Can’t wait to get my hands on one. It is written 200 EURO, not dollars ($). Makes a difference. -- Patryk LeadMan Benderz Linux Registered User #377521 () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-30 Thread Harley Laue
On 01/30/2012 06:41 AM, Gay, John (GE Energy Services, Non-GE) wrote: http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2012/01/reveal.html This look very interesting. Can't wait to get my hands on one. It does indeed look interesting, but it's not $200, it's EUR200 (at current exchange rates puts that at around

Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-30 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 30 January 2012 15:42:14 Patryk Benderz wrote: [cut] This look very interesting. Can’t wait to get my hands on one. It is written 200 EURO, not dollars ($). Makes a difference. No mention of tax either. It's certainly interesting, especially in light of the Lima driver project

Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-30 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 17:53, Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk wrote: On Monday 30 January 2012 15:42:14 Patryk Benderz wrote: [cut] This look very interesting. Can’t wait to get my hands on one. It is written 200 EURO, not dollars ($). Makes a difference. No mention of tax

Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-30 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 30 January 2012 18:52:19 Thomas Gstädtner wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 17:53, Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk wrote: On Monday 30 January 2012 15:42:14 Patryk Benderz wrote: [cut] This look very interesting. Can’t wait to get my hands on one. It is written 200

Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-30 Thread Dr . H . Nikolaus Schaller
Am 30.01.2012 um 15:42 schrieb Patryk Benderz: [cut] This look very interesting. Can’t wait to get my hands on one. It is written 200 EURO, not dollars ($). Makes a difference. Most likely it is 200 EUR w/o taxes, WEEE and many other duties like warranties etc. And @ 1 Mio units :) Without

Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-30 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Anyway - in my opinion so far this is a lot of fuzz about hardly anything. It'll be one of very few tablets that run linux without needing an anti-vendor port. That's a good thing in my book, even if it's not ideal. It was an intersting experience when we did the Letux 400 3 years ago.

Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-30 Thread shamsul hassan
Have a look at this site .. http://www.merimobiles.com/MID_V7_Android_2_2_VIA_VM8650_800Mhz_p/meri0619.htm They have many such variants of Android .. Minimum one is just $72 and even though if you get it shipped with the best possible manner .i.e EMS Express 6-8 Days .. the total will be 72 + 22

Re: Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-30 Thread Harley Laue
On Monday, January 30, 2012 09:18:09 PM Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 30.01.2012 um 15:42 schrieb Patryk Benderz: [cut] This look very interesting. Can’t wait to get my hands on one. It is written 200 EURO, not dollars ($). Makes a difference. Most likely it is 200 EUR w/o

Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-30 Thread Neil Jerram
Gay, John (GE Energy Services, Non-GE) john@ge.com writes: http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2012/01/reveal.html I hope it will be capable of running mainline kernels and any GNU/Linux ecosystem software, not just KDE. I think Plasma Active looks pretty nice and interesting, and look forward to