Dual-Screen Kno Tablet To Be Available by Year’s End [Tablets]

Does the lure of twiddling with ” one of the most powerful tablet anyone has ever made” tempt you? How about those dual 14.1-inch touchscreens? (That’s a combined might of 28.2-inches!) Kno has received $46m investment, with an end-of-year launch already penciled-in.

After being shown off at the D8 event in June , we were stunned by the concept of having two capacitive IPS screens, measuring 14.1-inches each. That’s a seriously large tablet, but will be the closest thing we see to Microsoft’s Courier, which has now been binned .

Running on a Tegra 2 chip with 16GB of storage, we’re not quite sure what warrants investor Marc Andreessen’s claims that the Linux device stands out as the ” most powerful tablet anyone has ever made” (considering other Tegra 2 tablets exist, similar to Toshiba’s Folio ), but perhaps they’re holding a couple of cards back for now.

It sounds expensive, doesn’t it? The company’s CEO Osman Rashid claims it’ll cost under $1,000, though a tablet’s got to be nearer $500 for most to even consider it. Especially students, who the tablet is asserted to be aimed toward. Kno wants to give college textbooks through an app store, on the way to allow them to draw on the pages and take notes like many of the ereaders nowadays. However, Kno plans to exploit webkit, so the textbooks is also transferable between the tablet and other devices-smells like a dear way of pirating schoolbooks to me, however pretty the device might be. [ TechCrunch ]

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