The SmartQ 5 from SmartDevices just took itself from me-too MID of the millisecond to a quite interesting value proposition. The touchscreen device, which features a 4.3-inch 800 x 480 screen, is now running an ARM-friendly Ubuntu distro, and has been given the low, low pricetag of 899 Chinese Yuan, about $132. Sure, it’ll probably never surface Stateside, especially not for that price, but it’s a good demonstration of what a little bit of decent ARM hardware and a popular Linux distro can do when they work together, hand in hand.

[Via iTech News Net]

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