New Spark Tablet To Come Loaded With KDE's Active Plasma Interface

mpol writes "KDE's Plasma Active introduced last Saturday its own 7" tablet. According to Aaron J. Seigo, 'It's the first tablet computer that comes with Plasma Active pre-installed.' The Spark, with its 7" screen, is built around a Cortex A9 with a Mali-400-gpu, 512MB RAM and an SD-card slot. It will have a 800x480 screen resolution and will cost around 200 Euro. It is actually a rebrand of the Zenithink ZT-180 C71, which comes with Android by default. On a personal note, Aaron J. Seigo will no longer be sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks to work on Qt and KDE. He will, however, stay involved with KDE and Free Software, he says."

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Re:To bad the specs once again suck donkey balls

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1. this is a enthusiast project and so is likely bootstrapped on a shoestring budget.

2. they are trying to get all drivers into the kernel proper, no blobs and similar. This means finding a supplier that can go along with that.

Android have none of these issues, and so can get the latest and greatest.

In the end one have to decide what is more important, principles or instant gratification.