The Gooseberry is an uncased board with a 1Ghz Allwinner A10 processor (overclockable to 1.5Ghz), 512MB RAM, a Mali-400 GPU, 4GB of onboard storage (NAND flash), and a microSD card slot for up to 32GB of additional space. It runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
The boards are priced at £40, £45 with a cable bundle. Supplies seem erratic.
The suppliers, atspace.co.uk (a UK ISP), describe the Gooseberry as a small tablet PCBA, and say that it's sourced from china. T^o be clear, it's not a tablet-style board, its a board that actually goes into some, so far unnamed, Android tablet(s). Atspace have neither designed nor manufactured the board themselves.
Although the suppliers claim that the Gooseberry can run Ubuntu or any other (properly configured) Linux distro, they note that some recent change to the board (made, presumably, by the manufacturers for their own reasons), it no longer boots reliably from the micro SD card.
The Gooseberry project seems to have been started out of irritation with the Raspberry Pi's slipping shipping dates. With the small size of the batches being ordered from the manufacturers, and the limited activity on the project's home pages, I have to say it looks a bit moribund now.
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