VIDEO: Freescale's $200 Chromium Tablet
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At Mobile World Congress, Freescale showed off a rather nifty little tablet running Chromium OS. It's the same device we saw running Android at CES, the i.MX51.
The Chrome Source reports that, though the demo shows input via a mouse and keyboard, the device is capable of touch as they also showed a tablet running some variation of Linux that had capacitive input.
With an integrated webcam and a $200 price tag, the device is likely to turn a lot of heads; especially when you have the likes of Apple and HP selling similar, higher end devices for three times that. Tentative early adopters could decide to try something like this rather than go right for the expensive option.
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Well worth it. Especially with all the nintendo ds ports and ps ports. Heh. I'd kill for one of these with a capable emulator port. HOLY COW.
/Sure would like to see the specs on that thing.
Display: 7-inch (1024 x 600) touch screen
Processor: Freescale i.MX515 processor based on ARM Cortex-A8 core
Connectivity: 3G modem (option) 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1, GPS
Memory: 512 MB DDR2
Storage: from 4GB to 64GB internal storage; removable micro SD
Camera: 3 Mpixel (video recording up to VGA 30fps)
Sensors: 3-axis accelerometer and an ambient light sensor
Adobe Flash Player support
Operating system: Android or Linux
P.M.: So, we've hooked up OpenGL ES for accelerating graphics...
Interviewer (right after the above statement): So, do you guys do hardware graphics acceleration?
If it was me: SMACK!!!
I like the concept though. This is a good concept. I think $200 is getting into the realm of acceptable for such a device.
For all the ppl yelling "this sucks", remember, this is a proof-of-concept. They are saying: "Hey, Chromium can run on our device", not "Hey, we have a device ready to go that runs Chromium". Seriously people, if you want to discuss cutting edge technology, don't act like you're a 9-th grade girl discussing her pink iPhone cover...
Not only does this tablet come with 3G connectivity it's a got a port for a SIM card!
Only open question for me is battery life?