Pre-order your Touch Book now!
You may pre-order a unit in the US only. The production of the first units will be limited and should be ready early this summer. Note that hardware will be final but software will still be in beta at shipment. We recommend that you read the FAQs page for more information before ordering.
Product:
$299 Tablet only (aktueller Umrechnungswert: ca. 232 EUR)
$399 Netbook (with keyboard) (aktueller Umrechnungswert: ca. 310 EUR)
Open source
The Always Innovating team believes in the open source model and wants to strongly support it. The Touch Book OS is built from the excellent OpenEmbedded system and is a variant of the Ångström distribution by Koen Kooi.
Open hardware
Always Innovating believes that open hardware will stand out in the coming years as open software has done recently. Based on the Beagleboard project, we are releasing under GPL the schematics of The Touch Book board which final version will be available very soon in the coming weeks.
A few projects we really like
This includes Openembedded, Xfce (including Thunar), Gnome, MPlayer, Gnome-MPlayer, F-Spot, and Pidgin. We have sponsored some of those projects in the past few months and we welcome your participation in their further development.
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FAQ:
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Q. Which OS is installed on the Touch Book?
A. The Touch Book will ship with the Touch Book OS by default. Since the Touch Book has been designed with the help of a vibrant open source community that believes in diversity, you can install many other OSes, including Google Android, Ubuntu, Angstrom, and Windows CE. You are free to do whatever you want.
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The specifications
* 9.4" x 7" x 1.4" for 2 lbs (with keyboard) (entspricht ca.: 24 x 17,8 x 3,6 cm; 900 g)
* ARM Texas Instruments OMAP3 chip
* 1024x600 8.9'' screen
* Storage: 8GB micro SD card
* Wifi 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth
* 3-dimensional accelerometer
* Speakers, micro and headphone
* 6 USB 2.0 (3 internal, 2 external, 1 mini)
* 10h to 15 hours of battery life
