VIDEO: Freescale's $200 Chrome OS Tablet
At Mobile World Congress, Freescale showed off a rather nifty little tablet packing Google's Chrome OS. It's the same device we saw running Android at CES, the i.MX51.
The Chrome Source reports that, though the demo shows input via a mouse and keyboard, the device is capable of touch as they also showed a tablet running some variation of Linux that had capacitive input. The reason for the mouse and keyboard is said to be because the touch capabilities and interface for Chrome OS on tablets is not yet complete.
With an integrated webcam and a $200 price tag, the device is likely to turn a lot of heads; especially when you have the likes of Apple and HP selling similar, higher end devices for three times that. Tentative early adopters could decide to try something like this rather than go right for the expensive option.
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Move aside ipants!
Early adopters might be tempted - if the touch ability gets sorted out on time and doesn't have any bugs. I suppose there's the linux distribution they used that they could fall back on if needs be.
If a tablet needs a keyboard attached it becomes more like a slightly smashed netbook thing.