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Five open source alternatives to the iPad
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| Neofonie WePad
| A bit bigger than the iPad with an 11.6",
| 1366x768 display, the WePad runs the
| Android OS. You can get apps from the
| Android Market or the WePad App Store. It
| also has a 1.3 megapixel webcam, which the
| iPad infamously did not include. What
| about the other iPad holes most often
| complained about? Flash? Yes.
| Multitasking? Yes. And the USB ports,
| modem, and 6-hour battery life won't hear
| many complaints either.
|
| Touch Book
| Touch Book is sort of a netbook, sort of a
| tablet. It's made by a company called
| Always Innovating, and it has a feature
| that really appeals to me--a detachable
| keyboard dock. Their website shows its
| many with-or-without-dock configurations
| with titles like "Yoga: Downward dog,"
| "Separation under way," and my favorite,
| "Fridge magnet." The hardware and software
| are fully open source--ready for you to do
| with what you like. It comes with a custom
| operating system, but you can install any
| mobile OS you like. Take a look at it at
| Gizmodo.
|
| [...]
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http://opensource.com/life/10/4/five-open-source-alternatives-ipad
JooJoo tablet faces an uphill battle
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| If you don't recall, the JooJoo tablet is
| an Atom-based 12-inch tablet that
| primarily is meant to give people a big
| touch browsing experience. It's got Flash
| and about a 10 second boot time.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=60490
Techno-hysteria
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| The iPad is the latest embodiement of
| Huxleyâs Soma. Itâs a seductive, closed
| device designed for passive consumption of
| pre-approved objects. Thatâs why the old
| âcontentâ industries are slavering over
| it. They see it as the way to undo all the
| damage wrought by the openness of the Web
| and its TCP/IP underpinnings, a way of
| rounding up all those escaped couch-
| potatoes and getting them back into the
| pen. And of being able to charge them for
| everything they use â and collect the
| money via Appleâs toll-gate.
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http://memex.naughtons.org/archives/2010/04/04/10578
Hacker jailbreaks the iPad less than a day after release
http://mobile.venturebeat.com/2010/04/04/hacker-jailbreaks-the-ipad-less-than-a-day-after-release/
Recent:
JooJoo: The "other" tablet arrives
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| The arrival of JooJoo seemed kind of fishy
| because 1) it was April Foolâs Day, 2) there
| was so much buzz on the blogosphere about this
| weekendâs release of the iPad that it just had
| to be a joke and 3) Engadget said it was so
| overwhelmed with iPad coverage that it
| wouldnât have its own review out until next
| week - and readers should not expect a side-
| by-side comparison to the iPad right away.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=32668
JooJoo: The "other" tablet arrives
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| The arrival of JooJoo seemed kind of fishy
| because 1) it was April Foolâs Day, 2) there
| was so much buzz on the blogosphere about this
| weekendâs release of the iPad that it just had
| to be a joke and 3) Engadget said it was so
| overwhelmed with iPad coverage that it
| wouldnât have its own review out until next
| week - and readers should not expect a side-
| by-side comparison to the iPad right away.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=32668
The iPad's Linux competition
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| Linux developers should be able to build
| applications for this platform without too
| much trouble, since the OpenTablet's "Flash
| applications may invoke class modules that are
| written in C/C++" and its "application hosting
| framework controls the loading/unloading of
| applications." I can also see the OpenTablet
| doing well in businesses since "The system is
| fully managed with a device management system
| client that allows the server to monitor the
| device, provision the device, and send
| notifications (e.g., firmware updates or
| domain-specific messages such as peak pricing
| notifications for energy)." That means that,
| unlike the iPad, it should be easy to manage
| OpenTablet in a corporate network.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/15871/the_ipads_linux_competition
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