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The First Android/Linux 4.0 Tablet is … A Small Cheap Tablet

Published by Robert Pogson December 6th, 2011 in technology. 34 Comments

The beauty of FLOSS for entrepreneurs is that you can come to market with a product rapidly and cheaply. This Christmas, it’s a small cheap tablet that’s first out of the gate with Android/Linux 4.0 / Ice Cream Sandwich. It’s a beautiful 7 inch tablet using a low-powered (250mW) MIPS chip that can do 7 hours of browsing on a charge.

see AINOVO

They will sell for ~$100.

Eat your heart out, M$. The world is moving on without you.

See the MIPS/Ingenic announcement. It’s available in China now and will be available elsewhere within a few months. I think I could persuade my wife to get one of these. She’s small and moves around a lot.

- Robert Pogson

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.