IAC slider MID running Android
 

4.8" screen, side slider, some buttons on the face. Kinda blocky, but otherwise looks interesting. Wonder how hard it'd be to put Ubuntu-MID or Mer on it :-)


IAC MID

Re: IAC slider MID running Android
 

Call me silly, but that UI looks an awful lot like Android, which means that an Ubuntu Mid should in theory be possible. But they're using a Freescale processor, apparently do to it's excellent multimedia processing power (can't say for myself, but that's what they claim) you'd need to ensure that the Linux kernel at least supported that processor. The only exception might be if it has some kind of Arm based instruction set.

Initial examination of the Freescale website hints that it might already be supported in Linux, but I can't find any confirmation of that from the Linux kernel camp. So I can't say one way or the other on this. But I do like the device. It's a little clunky, but I suspect that we're just seeing a development prototype and they'll have that cleaned up before the final version.

Re: IAC slider MID running Android
 

You did see that the title of both this thread, and the article I linked to, say it's running Android, right? :-)

Re: IAC slider MID running Android
 

lol. Yeah, I just saw that. Not sure why I missed that the first time. ^_^;; I guess I saw IAC slider MID and just stopped reading there. >.<

Re: IAC slider MID running Android
 

Happens to the best of us :-)

Re: IAC slider MID running Android
 

lol. Yeah. Me and my darned speed reading. ^_^;;

Re: IAC slider MID running Android
 

The article says 4.3", not 4.8".

Re: IAC slider MID running Android
 

Well, that's still nearly NIT sized.