GPD launches Pocket computer crowdfunding campaign. People still waiting for the GPD Win.
The 7″ GPD Pocket is going great guns on crowdfunding site Indiegogo, despite issues with faults and missing hardware from the company’s GPD Win campaign. Hong Kong based portable gaming company GPD has announced that it is breaking into the ultra-portables market, seeking crowdfunding for a device with which it hopes to bring back the long-dead netbook market: the GPD Pocket.
Based on similar internals to its previous gaming-centric products, the GPD Pocket is a fully-featured laptop that has apparently shrunk in the wash: a 7″ capacitive touch-screen with an impressive 1,920×1,200 resolution – 323 pixels per inch (PPI) – sits above a compact and heavily customised partial QWERTY keyboard with IBM-style trackpoint mouse. An Atom x7-Z8700 quad-core processor running at 1.6GHz (2.4GHz burst) linked to 4GB of system memory and 128GB of eMMC storage provides the grunt required to run either Ubuntu Linux 16.
