LINux on MOBile - ASUS Eee Pad TransformerLINMOB.net is a blog about LINux on MOBile devices. With the PinePhone (Pro) and Librem 5 shipping it is back to report on GNU+Linux on mobile devices.Zola2011-03-04T08:11:00+00:00https://linmob.net/tags/asus-eee-pad-transformer/feed.xmlA day at CeBIT. Again.2011-03-04T08:11:00+00:002011-03-04T08:11:00+00:00https://linmob.net/a-day-at-cebit-again/<p>I am starting this very subjective write up sitting on a chair in the Webciety’s Bloggers Lounge and I feel pretty tired and exhausted - it's just as it has been the years before. You walk around all day and spend time out there, go hands on with the few devices you are interested here, talk to booth people… There are great moments and less great - this time there were few less great ones, even the sun was shining all the time, which I never experienced in CeBIT seasons Hannover.</p>
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<p>After having strolled around many booths in many halls, I visited a place that is a must for a guy writing about Linux, the Open Source park, which is a rather small area full of people that show off their more or less popular projects. Among many business related projects (including some I've never heard of, as I am a little bit ashamed to admit) and more popular ones like Firefox 4 and LibreOffice I stumbled on a small Enlightenment corner and there on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carsten_Haitzler">Carsten "raster" Haitzler</a>, who, as some of you may remember, was once involved into the Openmoko project. I talked to him for quite some time, first in german (as his father's german) then in english about Linux, Android, toolkits on mobile devices. As you can read on his <a href="http://www.rasterman.com/index.php?page=News">website </a>as well, he's with Samsung now, who are investing heavily into Enlightenment to build a platform on - which will actually be <a href="https://linmob.net/2011/02/mwc2011-day-1.html">LiMo r4</a> compliant (there is EFL in LiMo r4, not only GTK+, cairo, clutter and so on). He showed me some EFL demos on an obviously Samsung built device on par with Galaxy S (using Hummingbird and an (approx.) 3.7" WVGA screen) - most likely a developer model of the never released<a href="http://www.slashgear.com/samsung-i8330-aka-vodafone-h2-limo-phone-leaks-2687073/"> Samsung H2 / GT-i8330 hardware</a>, which was supposed to be released during last summer, but didn't make it (at least on Vodafone in Europe). I think I will write a dedicated article about what we talked about as soon as possible, because it really was great to talk about the downfall of MeeGo (back to Moblin, mostly - a fact he wasn't too unhappy about, working on LiMo, which is certainly a rival to MeeGo on handsets.</p>
<p>Besides that, I didn't hang out for too long in CeBIT's OpenSource paradise (it was so crowded!) and headed on to webciety to get a little rest while listening to some panels I didn't plan to listen too (at the one I had on my schedule, one about tablets with the MeetMobility guys + 2 others (a Qualcomm representive + @petweetpetweet) I arrived late, just to get a rest after all these tablet hands ons (in fact I used my partly broken (headset jack) Palm Pre to capture a hands on with the Hanvon A116 tablet, but I will have to edit it before uploading, so don't expect that before saturday) and walking (I liked both ASUS Android tablets I wrote about recently (the MeMO and the Transformer, of which the latter really features amazing build quality and a really great finish), and then went on to have a look at some more devices before coming back late to the panel I just mentioned. After that, I managed to talk to<a href="http://twitter.com/sascha_p"> @sascha_p</a> for a few minutes, exchange business cards and head on to Huawei, were I had a look at their Android devices, entry level and up before "winning" a Vodafone 246 dumb phone at the stand of a popular german PC magazine, which was about the last thing I did before heading out to catch my train.</p>
<p>If you want to, have a look at the photos I took:</p>
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<p>Edit 2023-07-23: Turns out, I also took a video of some Windows Phone device:
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CeBIT: Day 0,1 and more than the first half of the 2nd day - Round Up2011-03-02T16:58:00+00:002011-03-02T16:58:00+00:00https://linmob.net/cebit-day-0-1-and-more-than-the-first-half-of-the-2nd/<p>As usually (at least I believe that it has been like that the past years) CeBIT isn't the place were the great, new revolutionary platforms are being announced. CeBIT is a business centric trade show with tons of non business visitors, that come in because there are tons of tickets available for free. Still CeBIT is interesting, because of its size—there are always some new devices from smaller manufacturers, or new iterations of products that were announced at CES. Before I will head to Hanover tomorrow, I want to share a link list of the most interesting products of CeBIT spotted by fellow tech bloggers so far.</p>
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<h3 id="yifang-m707">Yifang M707</h3>
<p>Rockchip 2818 based (later: Rockchip 2918 -> ARMv7), 7" tablet with resistive—I can hear you thinking “So what's the point with this thing?"—and here's the answer: Yifang will include it's infrared based handwriting recognition to this most likely rather cheap model, which certainly makes this interesting. Check out the Video by <a href="http://twitter.com/charbax">@charbax </a>on <a href="http://armdevices.net/2011/02/28/yifang-m707-android-tablet-with-infrared-pen-input/">ARMdevices.net</a></p>
<h3 id="asus-eeepad-memo-memic">ASUS EeePad MeMO / MeMIC</h3>
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I liked this tablet when ASUS announced it at CES, partly because it is a powerful (Qualcomm QSD8260 dual core ARMv7 Snapdragon SoC inside with support for 1080p @ 30fps and more) 7" tablet, a form factor that's somewhere in between the large 4.3" phone slates and the huge 9.7" / 10.1" tablets and thus interesting, in fact many people out there that are about mobile computing really like the Samsung Galaxy Tab P1000, which is about the same size—it fits in the pocket of your jacket.The other reason I immediately liked it is the fact that it ships with a capacitive pen and thus is handwriting enabled, we don't know how well this will work out yet, as the software (which is the important thing here, be it “basic stuff" like palm rejection technology or rather advanced like hand writing recognition) is far from being finalized yet, at CeBIT the MeMO runs with (if the icons aren't ported over) Gingerbread (Android 2.3), it will be released with Honeycomb in June. As the MeMO is a 3G enabled tablet, ASUS thought of an accessory that really sounds like a nice idea, it's the MeMIC, a Bluetooth connected tablet remote and phone. I will try to get my hands on this thing tomorrow, and remain thrilled how well ASUS will manage to create a great experience out of these nice ideas.<br />Check out another Video by <a href="http://twitter.com/charbax">@charbax</a> on <a href="http://armdevices.net/2011/02/28/asus-eee-pad-memo-tablet-and-memic-bluetooth-phone-remote/">ARMdevices.net</a> and the hands on by <a href="http://twitter.com/chippy">@chippy</a> on <a href="http://www.carrypad.com/2011/02/28/eee-pad-memo-bluetooth-handset-hands-on-video/">carrypad.com </a></p>
<h3 id="asus-eeepad-transformer">ASUS EeePad Transformer</h3>
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At CES this was the ASUS tablet that I considered the most boring one compared to the Slider and the MeMO. At CeBIT this device runs Android 3.0 Honeycomb, and what made it so interesting—now that I mention it—is that there haven't been to many new devices spotted yet, and a fact that made me listen up: Using this Tegra2 based device with its keyboard dock is, if we can believe ASUS here, going to give you 16 hours of battery life. Build quality is said to be better than Motorola Xoom (<a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/ZaferKilicaslan/status/42980890304970752">German source</a>). That's something, and if this 16 hours figure turns out to be true, this device might replace my 10" ASUS netbook.</p>
<p>Check out another video by <a href="http://twitter.com/charbax">@charbax</a> on <a href="http://armdevices.net/2011/02/28/worlds-first-honeycomb-laptop-at-cebit-2011/">ARMdevices.net</a></p>
<p>The fourth thing is an <strong>accessory for Galaxy Tab</strong>, that <a href="http://www.carrypad.com/2011/03/01/galaxy-tab-keyboard-case">Carrypad.com</a> tracked down. Besides that (there are some more AMD Fusion based tablets, netbooks and ultra-thins at CeBIT and much more) I didn't find anything that did excite me yet.</p>