A new Linux tablet has been announced, the Spark which will retail
for $265 and will run the KDE Plasma Active interface, the tablet was
announced by KDE plasma Active team member Aaron Seigo.
The Spark tablet comes with a 1GHz AMLogic processor, with Mali 400
graphics and it features a
7 inch capacitive multi-touch touchscreen
display, plus 512GB of RAM.
It’s name is “Spark”, in recognition of it being the start to an even bigger flame.
It sports an open Linux stack on unlocked hardware and comes with
an open content and services market. The user experience is, of course, Plasma Active and it will be available to the general public.
The tablet also comes with 4GB of built in storage plus a microSD
card slot, and the device will sell for around 200 Euros which works out at about $265.
