PengPod launches dualboot Linux / Android tablets in January

The PengPod company plans to start shipping 7 and 10-inch tablets with support for both Linux and Android in January. The company, founded by Neal Peacock (Neal Peacock) still managed to get more than 50 thousand dollars to develop a "tablet" Linux-distribution, with full support for all devices. It was planned to collect 49 thousand dollars, but it turned out more.



The tablets of this company were called PengPod 700 and PengPod 1000 (7 and 10 inches, respectively). They are based on Allwinner A10 ARM Cortex-A8 processors, a platform that is well suited for Ubuntu, Fedora or other Linux distributions. In general, some developers have been sawing Linux for a long time, trying to optimize some distributions for tablets. But without a development center, all these attempts are not brought to the end. Someone camera does not work, someone has no sound. It is also planned to create such a distribution kit that will fully support the “iron” of the tablet.

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The most interesting thing is that the company plans to release its tablets pre-installed on the Android internal storage, and with Linux on the memory card that came with the device. In other words, the device will work both with Android and with selected developers of Linux distributions / distributions. As mentioned above, a modified Linux distribution will support absolutely all the hardware of the tablet, including the touchscreen display, sound, video, camera, and so on.



As for the resolution of the display, it is not as large as in many modern tablets. For example, the 7-inch version of the display will support a resolution of 800 * 480 pixels. 10-inch version - 1024 * 600 points. It is clear that such tablets are not for those who need a powerful tablet. But with the main tasks that are usually demanded by users, PengPod tablets do quite well.



Here are video demonstrations of device operation: