Vivaldi with new hardware
Some news about the #Vivaldi tablet. Looking forward to the official announcement and hopefully they will ship it soon. Really waiting for this tablet and Plasma Active.
At around 30minutes Aaron also mentions ~friendica and Red, but not talking more about it.
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A crowdfunding tablet with Plasma Active
Sounds interesting, but still would love to hear from Vivaldi again.
Maker of "PengPod" tablets is seeking cash on crowdfunding site Indiegogo.
"The Mobile Interface That Works"
To express myself mildly, I'm not a fan of interfaces for mobile devices. At best, they seem clumsy makeshifts, tolerable only because no...
Plasma Active 3
Still waiting for a Vivaldi, but no news when it will be available. Maybe should buy an Archos 80 G9 so I can start using #PA3.
KDE has released the 3rd stable version of Plasma Active, KDE's device-independent user experience. The Plasma Active user interface is touch-friendly and works well across a range of devices. Its Activities function gives users a natural way to organize and access their applications, files and information. Plasma Active Three noticeably improves the user experience with its enhanced and expanded set of apps, improved performance and a new virtual keyboard.
News from the Vivaldi
Finally there was something new today from the #Vivaldi on Aaron's blog. Looking forward to the Plasma Active 3 release soon and then I really need to get a device!
What a crazy year it's been for our little Vivaldi tablet project. Lots of ups with Plasma Active developing by leaps and bounds, with version 3 coming out this month and many of our efforts starting to improve our other form factors such as Desktop, and so much learning with regards to the state of the hardware world in Asia.
LinuxJournal about Plasma Active
Already bit old, from the release of PA2, but it presents some ideas of it quite good.
Why would you spend a few hundred dollars on a device that is little more than a smartphone (with a bigger screen, without the phone)? ...
Nice said Aaron:
"...right now, there is too much focus on created devices that serve the owner of the application store and focus on consumption of new devices just for the sake of the newness of the device".
Bruce Bane
in reply to Klaus Weidenbach • •This video shows an introduction of some of the most important features of Plasma Active 3
* Organization of your workflow into activities
* Web browsing
* file management trough metadata such as date and tags
* view and browse documents such as images, ebooks, presentations and spreadsheets
http://plasma-active.org/
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