Looks like Allwinner has the A31 shipping (finally). Currently there are 8"and 10" tablets listed on Aliexpress for shipment on March 1. Prices for the 8" tablets start at $130 minus shipping. The mfr. is Onda. The 8" tablets have a 1024x768 screen with 2GB/16GB. The next up in price is the 10.1" tablets with 1280x800 screen by Onda and also Ainol at about $175. Those also have 2GB/16GB. The top models, also by Onda and Ainol and also a few others, have 9.7" high-res "retina" screens with 2048x1536 resolution, also at 2GB/16GB. Those average about $275 minus shipping.
Android should run quite well on these tablets.
But don't expect GNU/Linux to work. . .
Contrary to the specs in some of the listings the A31 uses a PowerVR SGX544 GPU, not Mali. That should give good performance in Android. But Linux drivers will definitely not be forthcoming.
An A31 might perform well as a headless Linux box, although benchmarks are not yet available for it, but tablets are the target market for this SoC, not Mele-type devices. It is always interesting, however, to see what kind of new devices arrive.
Android should run quite well on these tablets.
But don't expect GNU/Linux to work. . .
Contrary to the specs in some of the listings the A31 uses a PowerVR SGX544 GPU, not Mali. That should give good performance in Android. But Linux drivers will definitely not be forthcoming.
An A31 might perform well as a headless Linux box, although benchmarks are not yet available for it, but tablets are the target market for this SoC, not Mele-type devices. It is always interesting, however, to see what kind of new devices arrive.