Saturday, KDE’s Plasma Active team its first own tablet with the developed graphical environment revealed. The ‘Spark’ with 7″screen contains a singlecore-Cortex A9 with Mali-400 gpu and the tablet is going to be 200 euros in costs.
The Spark tablet is introduced by Aaron J. Seigo, the driving force behind the Plasma Active project, which is supported by the KDE community, basysKom and open-slx. It is the first tablet to come with Plasma Active user experience pre-installed. With the introduction of the Plasma environment for tablet use, in October last year, were only the WeTab, the ExoPC and the Idea Pad supported.
The tablet is actually the Zenithink ZT-180 C71, a 7″screen with resolution of 800×480 and capacitive touch technology. Furthermore, the tablet has an AMLogic 8726-soc, with an arm Cortex A9 core at 1GHz runs and a Mali-400-video chip possession. There is 512MB of ram and 4GB of storage memory, which may be expanded via the memory card slot. Also contains the tablet’s hdmi and usb.
The price of 200 euro for the Spark with Plasma Active, it is more expensive than normally asked for the Zenithink ZT-180 C71, which is standard with Android 2.3. Seigo calls it ” a unique opportunity for free software: “Finally have a device that is on the market on the basis of our own conditions.” Also will the proceeds, according to him, new initiatives and the adoption, for example OwnCloud-hosting services, Kolab and Kontact Touch support and new Qt/QML add-ons closer.
Seigo will soon announce about the start of the delivery and pre-sales. Finally, he made known not by Qt Development Frameworks is being sponsored to full-time on KDE to work, but that he could be involved in the development.
