<div dir="ltr">The octa core SoCs available right now are rather terrible when it comes to heat and power management( like the kirn 960) and we are rather limited by the fact that everything has to run on libre software</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Allan Mwenda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allanitomwesh@gmail.com" target="_blank">allanitomwesh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>I'd say get EOMA68 cards to be fast first. Maybe even 64 bit octacore or something fancy like that. <br>
Then get the tablet out that has an EOMA68 slot. That will definitely be popular if the specs are good display/battery wise. <br>
If theres a laptop and theres a tablet, then there'll be proven customers for a phone (the people who funded the other two) <br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On 25 April 2017 05:18:31 GMT+03:00, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <<a href="mailto:lkcl@lkcl.net" target="_blank">lkcl@lkcl.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<pre class="m_-2155738686526266989k9mail"><span class="">On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 12:55 AM, Adam Van Ymeren <<a href="mailto:adam@vany.ca" target="_blank">adam@vany.ca</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid #729fcf;padding-left:1ex"> On April 23, 2017 1:20:47 AM EDT, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <<a href="mailto:lkcl@lkcl.net" target="_blank">lkcl@lkcl.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid #ad7fa8;padding-left:1ex"><br> it's also why i haven't done a smart (or dumb) phone, because<br>*without* that smaller size (due to "stacking") you simply can't make<br>a small enough PCB for it to be socially acceptable, these days.<br></blockquote><br> I would totally buy and use a phone large enough to fit an eoma68 CPU card.<br></blockquote><br> i thought of a potential way to deal with that, and it's to allow the<br>Card to stick out the side.<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid #729fcf;padding-left:1ex"> But there may not be wide enough appeal to get the costs down to a reasonable number.<br></blockquote><br> well that's why i want to do a smaller card (EOMA50). honestly if<br>spending the time on this i would prefer to do something that stands a<br>chance of a larger appeal (and would reach an acceptable crowd-funding<br>threshold)<br><br>l.<br><br><hr><br></span><span class="">arm-netbook mailing list <a href="mailto:arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk" target="_blank">arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk</a><br><a href="http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook" target="_blank">http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/<wbr>mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook</a><br>Send large attachments to <a href="mailto:arm-netbook@files.phcomp.co.uk" target="_blank">arm-netbook@files.phcomp.co.uk</a></span></pre></blockquote></div><br><span class="">
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