Shown off at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Freescale’s 7″ tablet prototype was supposed to inspire manufacturers and design houses to produce real products. Realease took the bait and has followed up with an iPad clone it calls Shogo.
This Hong Kong product design company has come up with a Linux-based, iMX-37 powered, 10″ multi-touch capacitve screen… Oh, heck here’s the spec list, so I don’t have to string together more coordinating adjectives:Continue reading
At the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Freescale was showing off what its chips can do. Freescale’s 7″ tablet reference architecture was meant to inspire manufacturers. And to my eyes, I think they’ll generate lots of interest. Since CES, they’ve added Chromium and Android OS to the line-up— at CES, they had a Linux mock-up. The expected retail price for a Freescale gadget is in the $200 to $250 range. Check out the demo after the jump.
Updated 3/23/2010: Read James Surowiecki’s article on why low-end (FreeScale-based) and high-end tablets (iPad) will dominate the market.
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