1) Is there a BeagleBoard duo-core, comparable or superior to the
IPad2, forthcoming 'soon'?
2) Are there any entities from the OS community, that are using said
board for a tablet product?
3) Can anyone suggest quality manufacturers in Shenzhen, that can do
small runs of tablets at reasonable price points?
1) Is there a BeagleBoard duo-core, comparable or superior to the
IPad2, forthcoming 'soon'?
You may want to have a look at the Snowball SKY-S9500-ULP-C01, by the French firm Calao Systems:
1) Is there a BeagleBoard duo-core, comparable or superior to the
IPad2, forthcoming 'soon'?
As mentioned, there are current options like the PandaBoard. Gerald
has been looking at a dual-core A9 design, but nothing is committed
yet. It is interesting to get feedback on if this is really necessary
and why. We want to avoid thrashing the community and it needs to be
of some real value beyond the PandaBoard. That would in the *least*
mean that all of the parts would be available in single-unit
quantities, which is an objective of the BeagleBoard project.
2) Are there any entities from the OS community, that are using said
board for a tablet product?
There are people making tablets based on the BeagleBoard design. Hy
Research and Liquidware, among others, have simple designs that
directly use the BeagleBoard. Always Innovating has a fairly direct
modification to the BeagleBoard to build a more production-worthy
tablet. It would probably be easier to build a tablet using a module
such as those from ISEE (IGEP), Gumstix (Overo), Phytec, Varicite, and
many others. Check out Resources - BeagleBoard for links to
links (needs to be updated -- patches accepted).
3) Can anyone suggest quality manufacturers in Shenzhen, that can do
small runs of tablets at reasonable price points?
Anyone care to speak up?
Jason Kridner wrote:
3) Can anyone suggest quality manufacturers in Shenzhen, that can do
small runs of tablets at reasonable price points?Anyone care to speak up?
getting a "quality manufacturer in Shenzhen" means going down there
and spending time with them... A "long distance" relationship
will often not work 