While the tablets whole scene revolves around the iPad and Androids, there has been little to say about their potential competitors, both for hardware and OS. Or they are born dead or not ... there.
Yes, WebOS was one of the most promising legends to ever win the mythical status of incredible promise, while the Playbook still serves as a laughing stock in any self-respecting geek pub.
ICS also "wheel" in HP Touchpad and almost no one laughed at that joke. Although the Cyanogen is a step of rotating the Playbook. The problem is that RIM is more proud that HP to burn it for $ 99 S Obamas. So do not chutemos dead dog, right? - So they say ...
Anyway, the scenery is vast and virtually unlimited fuel for the legion of Linuxers, heroes of the resistance to fight and swearing about how all the tablets are still imperfect.
In relying on a guy named Aaron Seigo, KDE developer, the world may also legitimately criticize a tablet Freeta ... I mean, the good old Linux base.
To be more specific, he announced on his blog a few days ago that the new toy runs on Plasma Active environment, a mobile version of KDE touch and developed especially for tablets.
The name of the candidate? Spark, a tablet with capacitive screen 7 "ARM CPU 1 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 4 GB of internal storage, with input for SD Card, Wi-Fi and a starting price of U.S. $ 262 (U.S. $ 453). If you have 3G? Do not force ...
Under the hood, the Spark runs Mer, a fork built on the MeeGo also beaseado on Linux. According to Seigo, everything is open source and the user can install and tweak whatever you want with the Spark. # Joinha
Plasma is a project that sought to make some modifications to the standard navigation scheme KDE 4.0. He has received his share of criticism, perhaps too much and probably because Shiites have been explored in projects for tablets and smartphones, such as Seigo, or those who do not admit that KDE is used with your fingers.
On the other hand, has received good attention by certain facilities that, when we consider a decent Linux running within a relatively inexpensive tablet, please. Do not expect that beauty iOS semi-deity, nor all logic and simplified distribution of Android.
