There is a Linux tablet on the market for years if you assume that Android is Linux based. There is also an effort to put a “right” linux flavor on cellphones and tablets, but most of them have been intended for developers and tinkerers. Linux mobile devices specifically designed for the consumer market far and few of them, making Linux Jingpad tablets become a rather attractive business, which seems to have echoed with some supporters in Indiegogo.
Those who have supervised the tablet market and Linux space may be used to Jingpad. Or more precisely, you might have heard of Jingos, Linux’s flavor running on this tablet. Almost out of where, Jingos appeared earlier this year to offer a rather amazing user experience recognized reminiscent of iPados, except that it runs the Linux open source desktop below it.
Jingling Tech, a Chinese company behind Jingos, announced their plans to bring the OS to the device ready for consumers, Jingpad A1. The plan finally produced results and startup launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund tablets. Only a day, the campaign seems to have gone well.
In terms of specifications, Jingpad A1 is a little mixed bag, mixing a 4-inch 2K AMOLED 4: 3 screen with rarely heard 2GHz Octa-Core Unisoc Tiger T7510 and 8GB of RAM. This is not a combination that we get used to and still have to be seen how well it is in practice. After all, it won’t run some modification of Android but full Linux desktop, with access to popular software such as LibreOffice, GIMP, and the development of system administration systems.
More than just for content consumption, Jingpad A1 is advertised as a multi-purpose Linux cellular computer and even has a keyboard that converts it into a laptop and stylus with 6,096 levels of pressure sensitivity. The initial price of a $ 549 bird for Jingpad A1 and the stylus might sound too good for everything he promised, or it might sound too expensive for the hardware he was carrying. This campaign will definitely be started well, but, like the crowdfunded project, it can only be considered successful when the tablet finally sent to supporters in September.
