09-27-2018, 08:52 AM
(09-27-2018, 07:12 AM)Luke Wrote: the keyboard is attached via magnets and there are two small guiding knobs that help to keep it in place. Those magnets are quite strong. As for actual IO, the keyboard uses USB 2.0 pogo pins. The keyboard doubles up as a pretty neat sleeve, which wraps the entire tab.
The keyboard may change significantly for the production model - although I hope that the key style remains as pictures. We tried 4 different key styles during the meeting and agreed that this works best at this scale. Two things I'd like to see changed: trackpad placement to be centered and physical buttons for the trackpad (although, this is not a biggie).
The tab itself has volume up-down rocker, a lock button, headphone jack and a camera in the back(which no-one will use) and a grippy plastic-rubber surface. The screen is quite nice too. The final model may have forward facing speakers.
Oh, I love it already! It will be great to start being able to experience the recent tablet-esque feature pushes like with KDE without forking out an arm and a leg.
Camera's in functional tablets I always find a bit strange. I have never used the front camera in any of the tablets I've owned. I'd imagine keeping that out of it would shave down a lot on the cost too, but it's always a democracy when it comes to this.
Completely agree with your view in that regard, and I love the fact you guys try and keep it as generic as possible so that bespoke drivers are not needed.
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