Comments on: The Dell deal is done: Company goes private in $24.4B transaction http://gigaom.com/2013/02/05/dell-deal-is-done/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:06:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Roger Jennings http://gigaom.com/2013/02/05/dell-deal-is-done/#comment-1309015 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 23:45:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=607411#comment-1309015 It will be interesting to learn the fate of the Wyse/Dell “Project Ophelia,” a MiniPC USB stick running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, which supports WiFi and Bluetooth peripherals, and provides a HDMI connector to HDTVs or monitors.

Wyse’s president introduced this device with a target price of $50 at CES 2013 as an answer to competitors’ low-cost laptops and tablets. The problem, of course is that it takes sales of 10 Ophelias to equal the revenue from 1 laptop or full-size tablet.

Another issue is that Ophelia isn’t original. An almost identical device is available today for less than $70 from Amazon. See my comparison between Ophelia and CozySwan’s UG007 at http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/first-look-at-cozyswan-ug007-android-41.html#Ophelia.

]]> By: A Canned Ham http://gigaom.com/2013/02/05/dell-deal-is-done/#comment-1308222 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:48:08 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=607411#comment-1308222 $13.65. They should have asked me. I’d have given them twenty bucks easy.

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