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Many thanks for the info, it was an interesting evening and at the end
they were handing out (well, loaning for 3 years...) tablets. The spec
is apparently: Atom N450 1.66GHz, 512Kb L2, single core, 2Gb DDR2
667MHz RAM, 11.6" LED-backlit capacitive touch screen at 1366x768
(that's as good as my 17" laptop!), Intel Graphics Media Accelerator
3150, 64Gb SATA SDD, Atheros Wifi. The docs suggest there's a
microphone and webcam too, but the battery life was about 5 minutes and
it comes with a US power adapter, which I don't have in my rented flat,
so more than that I cannot say.<br>
<br>
Having written one small Android app, I'm not terribly qualified to
talk about the SDK etc, but the whole setup does seem a lot less
polished than the Android stuff that Google have done. But I've only
got my experience with Android and tonight's talk to base that on, so
that opinion bears little weight.<br>
<br>
The market for these devices is obviously getting a lot of attention at
the moment, and for a hardware vendor like Intel it's important to
build up a good software infrastructure around it to sell lots of Atom
chips. They won't care who makes the machines, or who writes the
software, so long as they've got Atom CPUs, so it seems to put them in
a bit of a strange place; they've go t little/no control over Meego,
QT, etc, and are unlikely to get into building tablets (I guess), but
they do have a vested interest in the overall platform being a success.<br>
<br>
We live in Interesting Times...<br>
<br>
Steve<br>
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On 24/06/11 13:22, Thibaut Rouffineau wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4E04818E.5090601@wipconnector.com" type="cite"> Hi
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<br>
More of a social note, we are putting together a Meego meetup on the
5th of July at Skills Matter offices in Clerkenwell in the evening.
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<br>
A few presentations from Intel who are generously sponsoring the event
but mainly a big community gathering with a lot of Meego hardware.
<br>
<br>
Registration is here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ce1.com/intel/2011/londonappuplab/">http://ce1.com/intel/2011/londonappuplab/</a>
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Hope this is useful!
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<br>
T
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