14 DAY TRIAL // Although some Linux-running tablets have already made their way to the market over the past couple of months, Ubuntu has been notably absent from the landscape, but it would seem that things are about to change in the near future, a tablet powered by the famous open-source operating system being already in the works. Although, at some point, we'd thought that 2010 was not going to be the year of the tablets (as all the announcements from last year's CES led us to believe), given the fact that, by mid-2010, very few working models had actually made their way onto the market, things have changed over the past two months or so, a plethora of such products (most of which are Android-based) hitting the shelves.
And now, it seems that Ubuntu is about to join the select list of tablet-bound operating systems, GizInChina publishing a couple of very interesting leaked photos portraying a tablet device running the Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 operating system.
Unfortunately, very little info has been provided on the tablet's technical specs, apart from the fact that it sports a 10-inch touchscreen display and is powered by an Intel Atom 1.6 Ghz CPU, accompanied by 2 GB of RAM and a 32Gb SSD hard drive.
So, there's no word on who's exactly manufacturing this thing, not to mention the party involved in helping adjust the Ubuntu OS to tablet usage (although we've found somewhat of a hint regarding an apparent GizInChinaLabs entity displayed right on the screen, in an upper corner).
Of course, we're quite glad to see that Ubuntu is also finally hitting the tablet market, and we really hope that, should this product ultimately turn out to be more than vaporware or simply an experiment, it will also manage to reach the western markets as well, perhaps at a decent price point (a bit of wishful thinking is in order right before Christmas).