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Asus 7" Fonepad

I wonder how hard it would be to put Windows 8 on it, it is Atom powered after all.

If someone does get 8 running on it I'll buy it for that reason alone.
 
Red Storm said:
HDMI?
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Hopefully MHL.

This thing is supposed to have 9 hours of battery life so if people want a GSM phone with long battery life, this is it. :awe: This Fonepad along with Nexus 4 makes you think about the absurd new phone prices though. $250 7" tablet which is essentially a giant phone and $299 4.8" phone. Death to antiquated $650 new phone pricing can't come soon enough.
 
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Puddle Jumper said:
As someone who want's a <10" tablet and Windows 8 or RT there aren't any alternatives.
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At the moment you are correct. We will see if that is a case in the next 12 months.
  • Windows Blue (windows 8+) will supposedly have 7 and 8 inch form factors. It should be out in the next 12 months
  • In the next 12 months we will also see silvermont (the new atom that will be up to quad core, redesgin so it will be OoO, 22nm planar tech, and a variant of intel hd2500 graphics)
I think it is very likely we will see both of these techs combined. But that is in the next 12 months, that is 2 redesign cycles at the current speed the phone/tablet market is advancing at.
 
Between this and Note 8.0, will carriers give up the lucrative voice plans without a fight? I can see these things becoming popular among students and some other demographics, even being "hip." For $250 and no contract GSM, and possibly (gasp) LTE coming with these devices, carriers can lose out on both data-only plans for tablets and their contract-stronghold voice networks.

And of course nothing stops these things from showing up in smaller form factors with everything but the screen/battery size intact. Then all of a sudden people start paying less than half of what they're used to pay for their phone services. And they get data plans for free!

Plus, HD VOIP products are on the way. Both software and hardware. If these devices get advanced VOIP solutions that utilize LTE bands.., well, what will AT&T, Verizon, et al will do when confronted with such a reality?
 
I guess one good thing about this device is that since it is a phone you can combine it with the $30 dollar t-mobile data plan. Root it and you then you can also use it as a mobile hotspot as well
 
Puddle Jumper said:
I wonder how hard it would be to put Windows 8 on it, it is Atom powered after all.

If someone does get 8 running on it I'll buy it for that reason alone.
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You can't.

The "Medfield" Atom being used in this Tablet(and also in Smartphones) don't support features that allow running Windows 8, or any other version of full Windows. The BIOS is changed for something much simplified called SFI for one, and there are other things too.

Basically, its x86, but in a subcriteria all by itself. It would probably support the phone version of Windows 8, the Windows Phone 8, but full version? Forget about it.
 
Something doesn't sound right. Does Google have an x86 version of Android? Will Android apps written for Arm run on an x86 Atom?
 
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