I wanted to write about a new $200 Web Tablet proposed by TechCrunch - TechCrunch Dreams-Up a $200 Web Tablet Device but first ... i need everyone who reads this post do something for me first.
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Ok,about the $200 tablet -
According to TechCrunch, who may be in the process of selling itself to AOL, as I wrote about in The Analytics Guru -
AOL TechCrunch - ugh, but if so, Arrington is cashing in
Maybe …. Maybe this is why Arrington would sell TechCrunch …… instead of a blog or blog network just writing about news and developments that other Tech Companies come up with - what if TechCrunch made a revolutionary product or service, itself?
I think that's what this is all about, if you ask me. According to Michael Arrignton:
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I’m tired of waiting
- I want a dead simple and dirt cheap touch screen web tablet to surf the web. Nothing fancy like the Dell latitude XT
Here’s the basic idea: The machine is as thin as possible, runs low end hardware and has a single button for powering it on and off, headphone jacks, a built in camera for video, low end speakers, and a microphone. It will have Wifi, maybe one USB port, a built in battery, half a Gigabyte of RAM, a 4-Gigabyte solid state hard drive. Data input is primarily through an iPhone-like touch screen keyboard. It runs on linux and Firefox. It would be great to have it be built entirely on open source hardware, but including Skype for VOIP and video calls may be a nice touch, too."
Think about - Bloggers can, in some cases, go beyond covering news and opinion in an alternative, transparent way … they can compete and in some cases, surpass mainstream media and even beat Tech Companies to innovation.
"….we’ll spec out the hardware and get people to help write the customized Linux and Firefox code. Once we’ve completed the design we’ll start to work with the supply chain company to get an idea on the cost of the machine (the goal is $200), and hopefully build a few prototypes. Anyone who contributes significantly to the project would get one of those first prototypes. If everything works well, we’d then open source the design and software and let anyone build one that wants to.
The goal is to keep the machine very simple and very cheap. I think this will be a lot of fun, and it may just turn into an actual product that we can use to surf the web and talk to our friends."
It'll be interesting to see where this story will be a year from now.
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