Thread: Wetab

Yeah, but I think you can put any OS on it...
It comes with something called MeeGo which is a kind of Android (I don't really understand what the difference is). One of the reasons I want this is because it is NOT iPad and it has lots of advantages that iPad doesn't (multitasking to start with)

the non-iPads all still have resistive instead of capacitive touchscreens

What does that mean? I checked some people playing around with WeTab and it seemed to have good multitouch? What did you hear?

This person and some others on Youtub put Win7 on it; he's even got a dual boot menu. I assume that any Linux would run on it too, what do you think?

Anki is a very cool open source learning program which exist for almost all types of OS including many Linux and Android: Anki - friendly, intelligent flashcards (bottom of page) I use it for my language studies.



I think it seems better than iPad (a little bit) and the exoPC... and I think I'll be an "early adaptor" on this....

Well, I'm not stopping you, but it doesn't exactly get rave reviews, not even in the Linux press, which should be all over it. But these gadgets as well as smartphones have so far been more of an example of Linux done wrong.

No pad I've heard of yet is powerful enough to run Windows decently. But well, if you ask me, there is nothing decent about Windows anyway. :P

Meego is another type of Linux oriented towards mobile machines, just as Android is. But it seems that a lot of the freedom gets dropped in the process, which comes with the fact that you need to connect to an internet provider one way or the other to fully utilize the gadget, and to access, for instance, an app store. You are practically bound to use the system software which is provided with the pad or smartphone in question, and that means you're much more dependent on vendor mercies. Vendors as a rule don't understand Linux and the freedom which comes with it.

Simply spoken, a resistive touchscreen gets its information by resisting your touch, that means, you have to press a little harder than you would have on a capacitive touchscreen, which works with the small electrical charge your touch causes. That makes resistive touchscreens less responsive and puts more wear and tear on them.

If you do in fact get this pad or any of the others, I'd be interested in hearing about your experience with it. I personally will only consider a pad or smartphone if it will let me put my own choice of OS on it and still connect me with a service provider.