ubuntu-tablet team mailing list archive

[Chris <cyber.druif@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hai Chris,

I would love to start a company to create/sell "Ubuntu" tablets. I still
think they could use some "refinements" that are already in GNOME Shell.
E.g. the automatic creation of virtual desktops when opening a windows on
an empty one. For managing those desktops I would like another desktop at
the top or something like a button to have the option to move a window over
there.

But back on topic: given the current designs and even patents owned by
varies companies, how would one make a tablet that doesn't infringed said
patents?

Anyone serious about this can poke me on this mailing-list or IRC. Again, I
would love to be able to do it, but currently I don't see a way to create
that.

With metta, Chris
On Jan 29, 2012 1:54 PM, "Chris Billington" <billington.chris@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> If you read the reviews or look on Youtube the Archos G9 has major quality
> problems- digitiser issues, case flex, etc. It's not a quality item.
> armel/armhf are compiler architectures, not connected to the hardware
> architecture which is Cortex A9. If the RAM is 512MB then I can definitely
> predict problems with running more than a couple of tabs in a browser.
> So at the moment, nothing suitable seems to be on the market. The only
> other candidate would be the HP Touchpad but that's a dead duck, after the
> geniuses at HP reduced their $1.5bn to zero within a year.
> If Canonical are talking to hardware makers about a preloaded tablet
> (which they should, because Unity would be a nice interface to use) then
> they are not saying who, what or when. They seem more focused on Ubuntu-TV,
> but even that may never see the light of day. I don't know how commercially
> focused they are, which is a shame after all the money Mark Shuttleworth
> has poured into the project- he deserves something back.
> Having initially hated Unity, I use it on my laptop and AC100- it is
> developing fast and is becoming nice to use.
>
> Anyone want to start a company making an Ubuntu tablet? I am only half
> joking here, since nobody else seems to be able to.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
> On 29 January 2012 11:32, Mitchell Reese <mitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> The 8 & 16gb versions of the archos gen9 all seem to have 512 mb of ram.
>> Apparently the &apos;turbo&apos; incarnations of these tablets coming out
>> this year are clocked at 1.5ghz (dual core), and are said to have 1gb ram
>> and 250 gb hard drive. These specs are all still to be confirmed, however I
>> found a link earlier that seemed to point to some of these having been
>> shipped already. Take this as a strong rumour though, as I haven&apos;t
>> found the link again.
>>
>> Any ideas if the omap4 chipset is armel or armhf?
>>
>> Mitchell
>>
>>
>>
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