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Originally Posted by jakiman View Post
So it seems dev device will be shown next week but no official information about the consumer device will be announced?
I don't know if they'll tell us about the consumer-device in detail but certainly they'll tell us, that there is a commercial device in the timeline.
sure thing is that they won't distribute the consumer device, because it's not allowed by law in the US to distribute devices which do not have the FCC certification.

A similar case is Intel. They have to distribute the ExoPCs instead of the WeTab (even though the WeTab is sold running MeeGo and is cheaper) because the WeTab is only sold in Germany and Netherlands and doesn't have the FCC sticker on it.
Actually it passed through FCC (because the hardware of both the ExoPC and the WeTab is made by Pegatron based on the same reference design and is therfore nearly the same) but they simply didn't print the FCC logo on it.
Therefore it can't be distributed in the US. Funny thing is that they even import it to the EU, just to have the same device everywhere^^

Last edited by zehjotkah; 2011-05-21 at 23:07.
 

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