iWonder why the logo is upside down

Among Marvell's many demos at MWC this year was a curious white tablet out of well-traveled ODM Foxconn -- the so-called iWonder -- that will see duty in China later this year. It's got a pretty awful 10.1-inch display (resistive with nary a trace of meaningful brightness or contrast), but when you consider that they're targeting an exceptionally thrifty price point in the low $100s, it's actually a pretty reasonable package. It's got Android 1.6, WiFi with a dedicated hardware on-off switch, an accelerometer (though it was totally flaky on the version we used), and a handful of touch-sensitive buttons around the bezel, including last- and next-page buttons for using the iWonder as an e-reader. Marvell touts that the tablet is using its reference design as a starting point -- now the next trick is helping Foxconn find a decent LCD supplier. Follow the break for some video of the iWonder showing off its Donut prowess -- if you can avoid the distraction of the curiously inverted logo, that is.

iWonder why the logo is upside down

[Steve2000 Posted Feb 18th 2010 3:20PM]

The unit is fine but I suspect that the os was installed upside down.

[Eternal Density Posted Feb 18th 2010 5:49PM]

Donut prowess? That sounds... wrong.

[tomsomething Posted Feb 18th 2010 6:13PM]

It's not upside down. The product is called "JLapuoM"

[RatioTitle Posted Feb 18th 2010 8:04PM]

Even the software seems to be against orienting it right. It goes into portrait but in the opposite direction you'd expect. Devices that switch between landscape and portrait shouldn't have oriented buttons. I would go crazy seeing the home pointing sideways.

[MaTdg Posted Feb 18th 2010 9:49PM]

No thanks, not even for $100. Notion Ink Adam plz.

[Middleman Posted Feb 19th 2010 12:02AM]

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[Middleman Posted Feb 19th 2010 12:18AM]

Actually it's not called the iWonder, its called the JepuoM!

[wndrstrck Posted Feb 19th 2010 11:11AM]

I can't believe everyone that makes a comment without even thinking about it, what a bunch of tools. The logo isn't upside down, check the buttons, the device is being held in the wrong orientation. Whoever was holding it obviously couldn't get it to re-orient the screen. If they never tried it that way their obviously ignorant.