This is an ARM9, probably @ 350Mhz[1], hand-wavey-performance around 1.1DMIPS/Mhz, minimal video acceleration.
BeagleBoard is a Cortex A8, 720Mhz, 2.0DMIPS/Mhz, with video acceleration (probably not via a USB video output, but via one of the Beagle adapters.)
SheevaPlug is 1.2Ghz, no idea what ARM series the Kirkwood is equivalent to. Obviously no possibility of accelerated video there.
N770 was a 250Mhz ARM9 with some video acceleration features.
Speaking from my own experience, I have a tablet with the same WM8505 SoC (Eken M001) and it runs Android 1.6 fine. I find for normal browsing and such that its biggest limitation is the poor quality touchscreen, far before anything else.
>I hope the Android OS on this tablet is as hackable as Maemo.
Nope. I've already posted a comment about it, but there are a bunch of proprietary library-level video customisations that noone has yet fully reverse engineered.
If you want a tablet with BeagleBoard-like performance and good hackability then there are some OMAP3 Cortex-A8 tablets for around the $200 mark (Wits A81e is one). Better performance, better open source support.
[1] Despite what Walgeens say, all of the previous WM8505 devices top out at 350Mhz.
I think it would be relatively straightforward to do accelerated video on USB touchscreens (like the MIMO) using a BeagleBoard. The GPU would be set up to render to an off-screen buffer, the udlfb frame buffer pointed at the off-screen buffer, and the udlfb damage ioctl called for the entire frame every time glSwap() is called (or using normal damage events for non-immediate-mode applications). It would probably be good for about 30fps.
This is an ARM9, probably @ 350Mhz[1], hand-wavey-performance around 1.1DMIPS/Mhz, minimal video acceleration.
BeagleBoard is a Cortex A8, 720Mhz, 2.0DMIPS/Mhz, with video acceleration (probably not via a USB video output, but via one of the Beagle adapters.)
SheevaPlug is 1.2Ghz, no idea what ARM series the Kirkwood is equivalent to. Obviously no possibility of accelerated video there.
N770 was a 250Mhz ARM9 with some video acceleration features.
Speaking from my own experience, I have a tablet with the same WM8505 SoC (Eken M001) and it runs Android 1.6 fine. I find for normal browsing and such that its biggest limitation is the poor quality touchscreen, far before anything else.
>I hope the Android OS on this tablet is as hackable as Maemo.
Nope. I've already posted a comment about it, but there are a bunch of proprietary library-level video customisations that noone has yet fully reverse engineered.
If you want a tablet with BeagleBoard-like performance and good hackability then there are some OMAP3 Cortex-A8 tablets for around the $200 mark (Wits A81e is one). Better performance, better open source support.
[1] Despite what Walgeens say, all of the previous WM8505 devices top out at 350Mhz.