Another ARM laptop

The netbook and therefore smartbook trends have mostly fizzled out, but they’re not completely dead yet.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/19/vodafone-brings-arm-and-ubuntu-together-for-south-african-webboo/

1499 South African Rand, or US$185 or UKP116 or so. It looks like fairly similar specs to the Efika MX Netbook. Slow compared to x86 stuff, but faster than a standard Beagleboard…

mostly fizzled out

They seem to be focusing on multi-core stuff now, don’t they? And/or keeping quiet on developments until happy that Windows 8 will run satisfactorily?

Anyway, "[…] received confirmation that the device […] won’t be on sale in the UK for the foreseeable future." ¹

¹ “Strangely enough the laptop is labelled Vodafone rather than Vodacom which leaves us to believe that the mobile phone operator may, at some point in the future, choose to introduce it elsewhere.”