This is what the $265 Spark Linux tablet looks like – video

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The Spark tablet is a 7 inch tablet that will ship with Linux and the KDE Plasma Active user interface. It’s expected to ship in May for about $265, and it should go up for pre-order soon.

KDE developer Aaron Seigo has posted a first video of  Plasma Active running on the tablet. It seems to respond well to touch, and the animated effects look pretty smooth — although there appears to be a little lag in some activities.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wbyyA9X4Qk#ws

Under the hood, the tablet is running Mer Linux, which is the open source continuation of MeeGo Linux. Plasma Active runs on top of that.
 
The Spark tablet is basically a rebranded version of the Zenithink C71 tablet which has been configured to run Mer and Plasma Active instead of Google Android.
 
The tablet has a 1 GHz AMLogic ARM Cortex-A9 processor, Mali 400 graphics, a 7 inch, 800 x 480 pixel display, 512MB of RAM, and 4GB of storage. It has a 1.3MP front-facing camera, 802.11b/g/ WiFi, and a microSD card slot.
 
It’s not exactly a top-of-the-line tablet, but it’s one of the first to be marketed as a truly open device, with open source software, and unlocked bootloader, and even an app and content store based on an open platform — anyone will be able to create their own custom content stores for the Spark tablet.