VIA's Android trend continues with display system

VIA's APC, the $49 little pocket rocket which sold out last week, was the company's first foray into the Android space. Now they're taking the OS to a new segment with the VIA ARM DS, an all-in-one display system.

The ARM Cortex A9 SoC system is 18cm x 12cm x 2.5cm and it's adaptable for use as kiosks, POS systems, video walls, and menu boards to TVOIP, cloud streaming, and Out of Home Advertising. Like many of VIA's products it's set up as a development kit, with software development and support being provided by VIA. That makes it highly customisable.

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Get your APC now ... oh no wait, they're sold out!

I got an email the other day from VIA announcing that pre-orders are now being accepted for their pocket rocket "bicycle for your mind" $49 Android PC (APC). I was a little busy with other things, thought I'd blog about that later this week and so today I followed the link and low and behold, all the pre-orders are sold out. It took less than 24 hours. Very impressive indeed.

I wonder when round two of sales will be?

VIA's APC at Computex

This week in Taipei the luminary of the IT media world have been interviewing reps from the manufacturing world as they show off their new kit. For VIA, the focus has been on the $49 APC. Here's a video by Hexus, interviewing VIA VP Richard Brown about the system and showing you what the default interface is like.

VIA's PAC one of the 8 cheapest PCs in the world

Gizmodo has put together a list of the top 8 cheapest computers out there. Here's a summary:

Raspberry Pi ($25)
Aakash 2 ($40)
VIA APC 8750 ($49)
DataWind Ubislate 7 ($60)
Mele A1000 ($70)
MK802 ($74)
Intel NUC (>$100)
Aionol Novo 7 ($120)

With the pricing, VIA's solution comes in as a mid-range option, although it does require a chassis.