Redruth Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-15180831 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 this tablet has a slower CPU than the first Android phone, and that wasn't really up to doing much. nope.avi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Trial roll-out to 500 students then if viable production model to be sold at 60$. Probably still pricy for the demographic - but might suffice. oscillik - this isn't for you or people in the "developed" world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 oscillik - this isn't for you or people in the "developed" world. it has nothing to do with "developed" world. the CPU is simply underpowered for the purpose that is being proposed. the 528MHz CPU that was in the T-Mobile G1 was barely capable of pushing 320x480 pixels on a 3.2 inch screen while handling all the low level phone stuff. the 366MHz CPU in this thing is expected to do just a bit too much. anything more than 320x480 on a 7 inch screen and this thing will be like trying to run Windows XP on a Pentium 166MHz MMX. i'd say that this project will fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 60$ when that Samsung tablet got dropped to 99$? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 oscillik - this isn't for you or people in the "developed" world. it has nothing to do with "developed" world. the CPU is simply underpowered for the purpose that is being proposed. the 528MHz CPU that was in the T-Mobile G1 was barely capable of pushing 320x480 pixels on a 3.2 inch screen while handling all the low level phone stuff. the 366MHz CPU in this thing is expected to do just a bit too much. anything more than 320x480 on a 7 inch screen and this thing will be like trying to run Windows XP on a Pentium 166MHz MMX. i'd say that this project will fail. For a person who has never had the opportunity to use a tablet before because they couldn't afford one, the specs are meaningless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 oscillik - this isn't for you or people in the "developed" world. it has nothing to do with "developed" world. the CPU is simply underpowered for the purpose that is being proposed. the 528MHz CPU that was in the T-Mobile G1 was barely capable of pushing 320x480 pixels on a 3.2 inch screen while handling all the low level phone stuff. the 366MHz CPU in this thing is expected to do just a bit too much. anything more than 320x480 on a 7 inch screen and this thing will be like trying to run Windows XP on a Pentium 166MHz MMX. i'd say that this project will fail. For a person who has never had the opportunity to use a tablet before because they couldn't afford one, the specs are meaningless. when you find that it can't do what it's been designed to do, that's when they matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Errm, what has it been designed to do? To be honest, I'd wager that it's too expensive, not too shittily specced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Errm, what has it been designed to do? To be honest, I'd wager that it's too expensive, not too shittily specced. according to the article, web browsing and video conferencing. that's on top of actually running Android 2.2. it is both way too underpowered, and way too overpriced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 I'm sure it will be able to browse the web, although it will probably struggle on flash intensive sites. But for places like wikipedia, google books, google scholar, university library sites it will be fine. Video conferencing...well...probably keeping the video window small? Will it be stock Android? probably not. Anyways, as mentioned - this is just a trial - 500 students first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest disparaissant Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 you can do plenty with that amount of processing power. at least plenty education related. not so sure about their claims of video conferencing, but certainly browsing lighter websites and doing other crap shouldn't be a problem. also it runs linux, not android specifically. it could be very well optimised to the device. it doesn't have to do as much phone crap in the background, it's not trying to run games and gps shit, it's much lighter weight than an android phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 according to this, it most definitely is Android. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4dltcHzcgY we'll see what happens. of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest disparaissant Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 android 2.2, but it has its own GPU. so that'll solve some issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 apparently it's only an on-chip GPU, which doesn't really bode too well. would help if there were some solid specs on what is inside it, but there's nothing out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest disparaissant Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 yeah i mean surely it will be slow and sucky but some internet access is better than no internet access, especially when you are a (n incredibly) poor student in india. comparing this to anything we have access to is kind of missing the point of the device. it might be sucky in every way from our perspective but im sure plenty of broke ass ppls in india will love the shit out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 it's cheaper than the last TI-whatever graphing calculator my school forced me to buy in the late '90s, and it probably does at least slightly more. edit: plus it's made in India so you know the tech support will be top notch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 it's cheaper than the last TI-whatever graphing calculator my school forced me to buy in the late '90s, and it probably does at least slightly more. edit: plus it's made in India so you know the tech support will be top notch fucking zole! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redruth Posted October 5, 2011 Author Share Posted October 5, 2011 here's to strapping a few hundred million more souls in the internets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted October 6, 2011 Share Posted October 6, 2011 here's to strapping a few hundred million more souls in the internets Yeah it would be a real shame if all those people had access to and were able to contribute to the knowledge banks that the internet is. Not everybody spends their time posting trite "first world guilt assuaging" gibberish on forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhonny Posted October 6, 2011 Share Posted October 6, 2011 Looking forward to the '3rd world problems' thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spratters Posted October 6, 2011 Share Posted October 6, 2011 lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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