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JingPad A1 – Consumer-level Linux Tablet

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Re: JingPad A1 – Consumer-level Linux Tablet

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Post by niutech »

Tendor95 wrote: post #15

Assuming you don't consider something running the linux kernel to be linux (ahem, android) >It is the World’s FIRST Consumer-level Linux Tablet. ExoPC 2.0 came out in 2010, running MeeGo, which was a linux tablet that shipped with an OS maintained and hosted by the Linux Foundation. >It is the FIRST Tablet powered by JingOS – the World’s FIRST Linux Tablet OS. MeeGo, MaeMo, and the associated tablet OSes from that er…

JingPad is certainly not the first Linux tablet - there have also been: WeTab, BQ Aquaris E10, PineTab, JooJoo and more.

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Post by blackaspen »

skykooler wrote: post #80
ekianjo wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> MeeGo, MaeMo, and the associated tablet OSes from that era shipped over a decade ago. To be fair there was no touch OS then - it was mostly stylus driven at the time. I don't think any of them had implemented multi-touch gestures for example, but please correct me if I am wrong.

Maemo did not, since its primary devices all used resistive touchscreens without multitouch support. Meego had multi-touch support, though it was only used at an application level (e.g. pinch to zoom in browser, maps, gallery etc).

I miss both Maemo and Meego. I had a Nokia N900 that was great and then an N9 that I loved even more.

Meego did use edge swipes in the OS which felt advanced at the time.

Re: JingPad A1 – Consumer-level Linux Tablet

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Post by aww_dang »

Aside from the issues with the images others have mentioned, it would be more convincing if they had a native speaker go over their copy.

>The JingPad Keyboard is inspired by the Apple Magic Keyboard for the iPads. It is a full-size 6 rows keyboard just for productivity!

Re: JingPad A1 – Consumer-level Linux Tablet

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Post by rchaud »

They're right about one thing, which is the 4:3 aspect ratio. It is ideal for tablets that are used for something besides a Netflix delivery system.

Unfortunately Samsung went to 16:10 with the Tab S4 onwards. It's simply too tall in portrait and too wide in landscape, especially for something like the 12.4" Tab S7 plus.

I recently snapped up a Chuwi Hipad Plus (awful name!), which is an 11" 4:3 Android tablet for this reason. It's far better to use when typing, or reading PDFs. I could not care less about "black bars" when I'm watching the occasional video.

Re: JingPad A1 – Consumer-level Linux Tablet

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Post by madpata »

noobermin wrote: post #69
29083011397778 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Considering how many people on the Pine64 forums and messaging groups are claiming to use their pinephones for their main phone, I suspect the Pinetab could be. The number isn't high, but it's higher than I would have guessed before (and after) I bought and started playing with mine. I'm not saying it's a good experience, but some people have lots of patience and very few (phone-requiring) responsibilities.

Who are these people? I have a pinephone and it is nowhere near ready to be my main phone at all. It can't even make phone calls reliably. It's a cool thing to play with but it is nowhere near to being a main driver.

> Who are these people?

People on the Pinephone forum. Simple survivorship bias.

Judging from the videos I've seen, the Pinephone is for tinkerers for now.

Re: JingPad A1 – Consumer-level Linux Tablet

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Post by MayeulC »

folmar wrote: post #89
tluyben2 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Linux is not as tuned for battery life as android, On devices that run both that I have (had), Linux always wins (by a very large margin). It does take tweaking and running i3wm, but Android is a hog compared in my experience. As is Windows.

Do you compare to Android with Google services or without/with microg? It makes a big difference.

Which would be better? Why? Are you thinking of push notifications, or is it something else?

About push notifications, UnifiedPush is quickly becoming an interesting alternative: https://unifiedpush.org/

Re: JingPad A1 – Consumer-level Linux Tablet

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Post by MayeulC »

ekianjo wrote: post #20
Shared404 wrote: post #10

I am unconvinced. First of all, Android is Linux based, and not an unpleasant userland if you install Termux and use LineageOS or some other custom fork. Second, even if you don't count Android, there's still Ubuntu Mobile, and PostmarketOS, and Sailfish, and Mobian, and others, all of which existed before this as far as I can tell. Third, this website is drowning in rough marketing speak, with little substance. I ca…

> First of all, Android is Linux based, and not an unpleasant userland if you install Termux and use LineageOS or some other custom fork. Meh, and the integrated Google spyware baked in? (because most Android is not LineageOS out there anyway), so there's a dire need for alternatives anyway. There is also no way for end users to update their Android devices, so you end up with something disposable the day you purchas…

>> PostmarketOS

> Not usable in touch mode

Are you thinking of a specific user interface? Phosh is quite usable, among others. https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/User-Interfaces

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