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Yeah, seems like a scam... too bad.
Or maybe its a good thing it didn't hit the target $30,000 limit.

Which to be honest, is unusually low. If it was $100,000 minimum it would make sense, but something like $300,000 to play with is more useful.

Even if it was real, and hit the target.... I'm not sure I would even pledge or buy one. Why? Simple... the outdated soc.

Its simply pushing lots of pixels using something that's as fast as the SGS3.
If lucky, the Tegra 3. And these were devices slow at 720p. This much pixels (and desktop programs) would push the soc to its limits most of the time, working in constant high voltage, it'd strain battery life hard.

Its an old processor, old gpu, old ram. No way around it.

They should’ve gone with 3GB RAM (for Ubuntu's sake).

And adopted a 2GHz Quad-A15 with 1.5GHz Quad-A7 SoC.
It's decent on battery life (LITTLE.big), and good performance in concurrent Octa-core mode.

There's some decent offerings form Allwinner, AMLogic, MediaTek and RockChip.
Just as long as they can provide the kernel source and drivers for Android (hence, Linux) it would be possible.

But that page was still good for a few lulz.
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