The Spark tablet is a 7 inch tablet that runs on Linux and the KDE Plasma Active user interface. The KDE developer Aaron Seigo has posted a first video of Plasma Active running on the tablet. After watching video, it seems that it will well to touch and the animated effects look pretty smooth. Its expect to ship in May for $265 and pre-order will start soon.
Liquidware (an open-source electronics firm) has released a kit that can be used to make a linux tablet with a 4.4" (480x272) OLED touch display. The kit includes a BeagelBoard…
Linux Getting Tablet Love From ASUS and Axon Logic Hopefully More To Come….
Sharp has just announced the NetWalker PC-T1 Ubuntu-based PDA "NetWalker". According to the press release PC-T1 will be released in late May. NetWalker PC-T1 features 5 inch(1024*600) touchscreen LCD, multimedia…
Ubuntu version 14.04 LTS, code name “Trusty Tahr” released today. It’s now available to download for all platform. In this post we will discuss feature list for 14.04, where and how to download, and a briefly about brand new Ubuntu Touch For Tablet Version 1.0.
Canonical, the company that has been developing the Ubuntu flavor of Linux and releasing its subsequent versions, has claimed in the past that it intends to launch a mobile OS for smartphones and tablets. The company may be on the verge of doing so, hinting a touch-enabled surprise on January 2.
At present the tablets such as iPad Mini, Surface RT, and Google Nexus 10 in the market cost over $300. But those users who want to use tablets but don’t wish to spend $300 on a tablet, what will they do? Certainly they will try to find a less cheaper tablet which is very hard to find. But the good news is recently ARCHOS has unveiled an 8 inch Android 4.0 tablet dubbed as 80 Cobalt which is very cheap compared to currentr existing tables.
Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux operating system and the qualified grandfather of Android platform, has shared his thoughts on Google’s new tablet Nexus 7. He seemed to like it. His impressions were “So far: very positive.” Nexus 7 is getting really big fan following with its unaltered Android interface and rock-bottom price.