Thread: Brainstorm: Porting maemo to other devices instead
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2011-12-20 , 20:38
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#19
Originally Posted by GrimyHR View Post
why would we port it to such expensive brand name devices when there are tons of cheap tablets with comparable hardware like this one for 83$
http://www.pandawill.com/ployer-momo...te-p52651.html

wouldnt something like that be a better platform for porting a community OS to it(price/performance wise)
Well mainly as I owned one (and I chose it as I wanted GPS and an e-compass, though accessing the GPS remains WIP). The tablet you mention may well be a better bet (certainly it's higher spec, but then it's newer) as it has a Mail GPU and you might get some sense out of them re. producing hardfloat userspace binaries (which is currently one of the issues associated with trying to run hardfloat Nemo as opposed to softfloat Ubuntu).

I'm device agnostic as long as it's readily available and has the required spec and realistically one would want to support multiple devices (preferably with a non-accelerated UI as a fallback!)