Preorder at makeplaylive.com
The Spark is a new tablet based on the open source Mer and KDE's Plasma project. As someone who always did prefer KDE to Gnome (especially back in my linux-as-primary-OS days), I've been fascinated by the Plasma project so it's nice to see an interesting project making use of it.
The tablet has modest hardware:
- 7 Inch multi-touch capacitive screen
- 1 GHz ARM Cortex A9 processor with Mali 400 GPU
- 512 MB DDR2 RAM
- 4 GB Nand Flash Disk
- Wireless Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g (3G via USB Extenal)
- 1.3 MP built-in front facing camera
- HDMI 1080P Output
- 2 USB ports
- MicroSD slot
- 3.5 mm audio jack
- Hardware volume and power buttons
- 4 dimensional Gsensor
- Battery: 3000mAH @ 7.4v
- Weight: 355 grams
I'd take one for free/cheap to mess around with. I'm looking forward to when this begins getting into the hands of users and we can start seeing thorough usability impressions.