Comments on: Always Innovating Touchbook coming next month, full specs

By: murphy

murphy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:44:34 +0000

I loughed when i saw the prices. The complete package costs 399$ when i add the display (299$) and the keyboard (99$) as seperate items in the shop they will cost 398$. This seems to be a hidden 1$ rebate I think this is a bad error, but i’ve seen it otherwise too in other shops, because 99$ is better looking than 100$

Cheers, murphy

By: Rumplestilzken

Rumplestilzken — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:11:15 +0000

The reason why they didnt go with Ubuntu or android out of the box is because they added a lot of functionality that you cant find in either….

One BIG thing is the support for Java on the ARM architecture.

By: focus

focus — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:03:38 +0000

The price is the key,as usual.

By: JP

JP — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:27:25 +0000

Something like ~5hrs with the stand-alone tablet, and ~15hrs with the attached keyboard : the keyboard houses a battery twice as large as the one included in the screen part -> 5+(2*5)=15

Of course standby figures are much better, we’re speaking of an ARM device. Expect several days, if not more than a week (especially with keyboard attached) of stand-by time with instant-on capability!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:34:06 +0000

@drebin

Ubuntu is still in pre-alpha development mode (gosh, even newest editions seem alpha software sometimes) and Android is a mockery that wants to be a real OS once it grows up.

I think they had Angstrom edition like Open Pandora scheduled, debian would be better because of good packaging system but Angstrom would not be bad either.

By: drebin

drebin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:10:33 +0000

im not an expert, but i dont understand why they have to keep making new linux software over and over again. why not just go with ubuntu or android?

By: turn_self_off

turn_self_off — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:31:02 +0000

sounds like they are in the somewhat same situation as the openmoko phones…

By: Elmstrom

Elmstrom — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:30:49 +0000

Any remeber what battery life it has?