[conspire] (forw) ZaTab from ZaReason - a fully open Android tablet

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

Yes, as I said, no Bluetooth. If you already got your ZaTab, I'm assuming
you got it with nothing installed, since ZaReason has no software ready for
it at this point. The plan is to ship the first consumer units with
CyanogenMod 9, but the effort is under way to also have GNU/Linux installed
as an option. Kubuntu's David Wonderly has assured us that Plasma Active is
ready to go, but I would personally prefer the Unity environment.
On May 9, 2012 8:56 PM, "Tony Godshall" <togo at of.net> wrote:

> Got mine.
>
> I see no bluetooth.
>
> Love the UI devel options.
>
>
> On Tuesday, May 1, 2012, Daniel Gimpelevich <
> daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 10:39 -0700, Tony Godshall wrote:
> >> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Mike Higashi <mhigashi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Tony Godshall <tony at of.net> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Very cool.  May get one even though the
> >> >> resolution is only XGA.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > What I find interesting is that while most Android tablets
> >> > have a 16:9 display, the ZaTab replicates thei see iPad's form
> >> > factor with a 4:3 display.  I think this makes portrait mode
> >> > much more useful.
> >> >
> >> > While the resolution is "only XGA", that's still 130 pixels
> >> > per inch, so it should be quite good looking.
> >>
> >> Yeah, that's why I'm even considering it.
> >>
> >> I am really tired of these 72dpi screens everybody
> >> is selling and buying- laptops, desktops,
> >>
> >> But one of my key use cases is VNC access to
> >> user desktops, and some have screens as big
> >> as 2K so there'd be a lot of zooming in and out.
> >
> > I've been looking at the web page for this product over and over since I
> > first saw the URL on this list, and each time I looked, a false
> > assumption that I made about the product persisted. Yesterday, I
> > overheard Earl Malmrose mention to Larry Cafiero that the device does
> > not have Bluetooth. It never previously occurred to me that a tablet
> > like this might not be equipped with Bluetooth, but I guess it keeps
> > costs down.
> >
> >
> >
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> Sent by tony on the go. Please excuse any Grammatical problems. What the
> machine typed is not necessarily what I said and I can't honestly say that
> I go back and check them all carefully before I hit send.
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