Chippy And The Cheap Windows Tablet

Flexibility! Cheapest Windows PC in Europe with video out. 129 Euro. See the gallery of Point of View Wintab 800W. https://t.co/PO7ASC8Bmt

— Chippy (@chippy) October 30, 2014

I swiped this photo from his Google+ album:

USB hub with SD adaptor, wireless keyboard and mouse adaptor, HDMI out to Full HD display, playing audio out to HiFi

Same-day update after the break.

New Tablet From CUBE: i6

I monitor CUBE on Weibo and this is a surprising announcement that I’ve seen only at 1Pad [Google Translate].

This is another Retina-class 9.7-inch tablet but it uses the Intel Z3735F with a peak frequency of 1.8GHz. It has 2GBs of RAM, 32GBs of internal storage, 2MP front and 5MP back cameras, microUSB OTG port, microSD card slot, Android 4.4.2, no word on battery size — and 3G is China Unicom. And the screen is IGZO. GPS available but probably requires a 3G connection.

Get Your Fake Touch ID On, Poor Boy!

Ashamed to be seen with an old iDevice?

Japan’s got your shame covered, homie!

Thunderbirds Are Go Shown At BFI

Yesterday:

Great to see an episode of 'Thunderbirds Are Go' this afternoon. Applause from the whole @bfi audience! #thunderbirds pic.twitter.com/0H9SWUDFB1

— Mike Griffiths (@mrmikegriffiths) October 28, 2014

Blog Notes: Xiaomi Overload!

I see that sometimes Xiaomi fills Weibo with lots of news.

I’m also seeing that I’m winding up with a blog that looks like it’s primarily about Xiaomi.

I’m going to handle this differently, starting tomorrow.

I’m going to try to combine all of the Xiaomi news into one post, when possible.

That will make finding something via Search a bit more work but I think it’d be better overall for the blog itself.

By the way, Weibo for Teclast, Onda, Five Technology, and most other tablet makers are checked first. So when Xiaomi posts pop on the blog, that means there’s no Weibo news from the others. It’s only after I’ve done Weibo that I go to the China tech sites.

Xiaomi MiPad 64GB Now In Blue

Weibo:

Man Renders Xiaomi MiBand Fugly

Weibo:

Xiaomi Smart Home: iOS Apps Coming

Weibo:

People will be able to monitor their homes from an iPhone using that HD security camera Xiaomi is selling.

Previously here:

HD Security Camera: US$25!
Xiaomi MiHome, Smart Home App
Xiaomi Enters The Smart Home Market

Never Forget MIUI

The first four ecosystems with a billion users will be Windows, Facebook, Android (Google's version) and iOS. Will there be a fifth?

— Horace Dediu (@asymco) October 29, 2014

MIUI. Has he heard of it?

Which also makes me wonder if Xiaomi might announce its own OS next week.

Reader Alert: Hit “Older Posts”

This blog’s template sticks ten posts at a time on the front.

Today is another one of those days when I’ll be doing more than ten posts in a day.

So to see everything, when getting to the bottom of the scroll, hit the “Older posts” link.

The first post published today was: Google Books PDF Test: iPad Air 2