KDE starts next week with the advance of his recently announced Spark tablet. Then the device must be in may available worldwide. Consumers need to be for the Spark tablet around the 200 euro are going to pay.
That leaves the project leader Aaron J. Seigo know on his weblog. The Spark can only be ordered online, but will be delivered worldwide as soon as it is available. If the sale is a success, then there may be a version with more high-end hardware. There is also thought to support for gps and 3g in build.
The Spark tablet runs on a Linux-based system, with the KDE development team on Qt Quick-based Plasma Active interface has built-in. Recently, the device was announced as the first tablet running the Plasma Active interface is pre-installed. It was already possible to have the gui on the tablet WeTab, ExoPC and Idea Path.
The Spark is actually a Zenithink ZT-180 C71, which is a rebranding feature, and by default on Android 2.3 running. The device has a 7″ capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 800×480 pixels. Furthermore, the tablet has an AMLogic 8726-soc, with an ARM Cortex A9 core at 1GHz runs and a Mali-400-video chip possession. The ram is 512MB and 4GB of storage memory, which may be expanded via the memory card slot. Also contains the tablet has a hdmi connector.
