Shogo 10-inch Linux tablet is a Qooq minus the recipes -- and the feet (video)

Last year's Qooq tablet hardly made much of a splash in the gadget industry, despite its cooking prowess and silly little feet. Now, the manufacturer behind the device, Realease, is shaving down the appendages and ditching the recipes to create the Shogo, a 10-inch, capacitive-touch Linux tablet. Two models will be offered with Freescale processors, one with the i.MX37 and another with the faster i.MX51, and much of the device's functionality will be provided through a webkit-based browser. We're a little unclear about the distribution plans here, as it really sounds like Realease would prefer to sell this thing in bulk to businesses than individually to shlemiels like us, but the thing apparently could go into mass production within a few months. Will it? Let's just say we're not quite as excited about that possibility as Charbax gets in the demonstration video below.

[werty1432k Posted May 28th 2010 12:17PM]

Tablet fever all of a sudden.

[Amnak Posted May 28th 2010 12:18PM]

@werty1432k I was thinking the same thing.

[MadSkillz Posted May 28th 2010 12:28PM]

@werty1432k

Exactly. LOL.

I also wonder, what's the battery life going to be on that. I have got a feeling is always going to have to be corded.

[thede Posted May 28th 2010 2:46PM]

@MadSkillz well not all of a sudden..apple just lowered the bar of tablet...i don't mean it in a bad way...but let's face it..everybody that wanted to go into tablets was trying to make a full functional PC..now cooking an less functional tablet on an ARM processor is much simpler to develop.

[werty1432k Posted May 28th 2010 2:50PM]

@thede Actually I never thought if it like that, that is a good point (no sarcasm) Our idea and the ideas of companies that produce tablets has changed since the iPad.

[MadSkillz Posted May 28th 2010 3:42PM]

@thede the usual hater response.

Actually geeks kept asking for too much too damn soon. What Apple did was set reality in. What reality? Well Easy to use last all day and a full blown ecosystem around it with FULLY OPTIMIZED APPS for the device on day one.

No standards were lowered jackass. They raised the bar so high that the competitors had to go back to the drawing board.

[Vdek Posted May 28th 2010 12:20PM]

The Cock tablet?

lol...

[Glitch Posted May 28th 2010 12:21PM]

Doesn't look too bad. Wonder how it'd perform with Android.

[Zeak Posted May 28th 2010 12:43PM]

@Glitch
I'd prefer a Ubuntu netbook edition :)

[plbelanger Posted May 28th 2010 12:27PM]

So is it based on the freescale processor?

[Luffy Posted May 28th 2010 12:27PM]

@futurerheza I remember all the demo vids at CES of android tablets, and vids of Tegra 2 prototype android tablets. They all seemed plagued with choppy/laggy interfaces... but yes I know they were just prototypes. Hopefully Computex shows off some polished android tablets, perhaps running froyo, would be wonderful :3

[orjands Posted May 28th 2010 12:28PM]

Why is there an Adium icon? As far as I know Adium is only available for OS X

[Teslanaut Posted May 28th 2010 12:54PM]

@orjands Because they can't be creative so they steal icons from the Internet instead of making their own. I'm assuming the final product will have different images.

[WYGUY Posted May 28th 2010 12:29PM]

Hooray, ports!

[ZeCoder Posted May 28th 2010 12:29PM]

Sick of VAPORWARES

[sonicwind Posted May 29th 2010 2:15PM]

@ZeCoder yeah, that tablet was totally rendered

[JonHolstein Posted May 28th 2010 12:34PM]

@futurerheza
Cause at this point Google dont officially support google tablets... meaning among other things that android tablets wont get access to Android market.
So at this point rather pointles...
And since google is working on their Chrome OS, we probably wont see google support android tablets soon...

[dcent1 Posted May 28th 2010 12:35PM]

Headphones! Microphone!

[seanGadget Posted May 28th 2010 12:38PM]

@futurerheza
why all these tablets all of a sudden?

[Zeak Posted May 28th 2010 12:43PM]

Funny guy :D Two things: 1. why the hell does a tablet need LAN port 2. mouse pointer again? hate seeing them on tablet devices..

[JonHolstein Posted May 28th 2010 1:42PM]

@Zeak
Well LAN makes a lot of sense, since this is not an end consumer product... This can be custom ordered by companys, to be installed permanently (stores, tourist centers, and so on). Or it oculd be used as a awsome way to control an home audio system.
And when its installed, why use wifi? the connection wont be as fast, it wont be as reliable, and when installed, the reception in the device will not be as good.
So LAN port on an non end-consumer product makes a whole lot of sense.
But some manufactors might pick it up, and turn it in to a to-go tablet, and might ditch the LAN port.

[PiCASSO Posted May 28th 2010 12:47PM]

Yawn... Über slow interface... pass.

[Ezye1313 Posted May 28th 2010 12:49PM]

In the video it says you can order android if you'd rather it be that way.

[mikeplow1961 Posted May 28th 2010 1:17PM]

Jesus wept. Are we EVER going to see a demo of a tablet where the demonstrator DOESN'T stab at a button onscreen several times before it's detected?

[Charbax Posted May 28th 2010 1:29PM]

@futurerheza Android can be installed as this is an open source tablet, if the company customizing it wants to make it an Android tablet rather than a customized Linux Angstrom based tablet.

[neojubei Posted May 28th 2010 1:59PM]

@seanGadget Apple

[One Love Posted May 28th 2010 2:18PM]

@futurerheza : its that crazy french guy again!

[Gazoobee Posted May 28th 2010 2:21PM]

That's some sloowwwwww and clunky hardware .... and since it's a non-integrated product all they are selling is the hardware. Yikes!

If it's dirt cheap and they sell in volume they might reel in some suckers who are looking for "kiosks," but that's about it.

[agraham999 Posted May 28th 2010 2:24PM]

Funny how they basically ripped off a bunch of Apple icons to build the UI. Does the word "open" in open source refer to open to stealing? I see Safari, iTunes, Front Row, iCal...it is possible to build a UI without heavily borrowing from Apple.

[TR47 Posted May 28th 2010 2:27PM]

Did I just heard WebOS?

[WeirdHero Posted May 28th 2010 2:39PM]

Sanjuro will be pissed.

[Pingles Posted May 28th 2010 2:49PM]

Shogo was a great PC game.

[NamelessFragger Posted Jun 12th 2010 7:50PM]

@Pingles
Too bad you can't play it on this tablet.

"Check this out, guys! I'm playing Shogo on my Shogo!"

[TechBlogger Posted May 28th 2010 2:50PM]

I like the size and based on what I saw, the processor seems snappy enough. Does HTML5 and sports Flash support. RJ45, USB, kickstand, yeah, it has the basics down. I'd like to see another hands on reviewer do a video. Preferably someone using bullet points.

[hvakrg Posted May 28th 2010 2:58PM]

Wtf? Internal USB-ports on a tablet?!?!?

[Cold Dead Fingers Posted May 28th 2010 3:55PM]

(hahaha?) is this supposed to be a joke?

[quade Posted May 28th 2010 4:39PM]

shogo is a nogo.

[koopatroopa Posted May 28th 2010 6:47PM]

Eeeewwww..... The black bezel....

Everyone is copying that iPad look.

[whormongr Posted May 29th 2010 12:27PM]

@$500 (as on the website)it is a little bit meh- drop that price by $150 and it starts to become a lot more interesting

[sonicwind Posted May 29th 2010 2:18PM]

@hated one for realz, this thing smokes the iPad in every way.

[DeeeCoder Posted May 30th 2010 6:56PM]

WTF? This looks exactly like iPAD. Why isn't this being called a KIRF??
Is it just because its not from China?