Connected Devices/Projects/Project Tablet

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Project Tablet
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Author(s)
Mozilla
Released
2016.05.11 (Initial Pitch)
Innovation Status
Stage 1 (Validation)

Project Tablet aims to a explore a simple, single-purpose tablet, completely dedicated to browsing the web.

If you would like to participate, you can get in touch with our connected devices participation team, or find us in the #tablet channel on irc.mozilla.org.

Project Overview

Hypothesis

Current tablet products are not meeting the needs of late majority adopters. There could be a demand for a simple, affordable browser-based tablet.

Problem

If all you want is a secondary device for casual web browsing and entertainment, existing tablets are over-complex:

  • High friction app-centric experience more suited to productivity and communication
  • Content buried inside separate apps
  • Have to download an install an app just to try it, then clean up apps you don't use

Solution

A simpler tablet:

  • Lightweight OS focused on web content
  • Instant access to content, no app installations needed
  • Automatically populated home screen

Project Status

Next step:

  • User study to test a prototype and validate the hypothesis.

Success criteria:

  • User study identifies a good problem/solution fit
  • The concept resonates with users in the target segments
  • Consumers would consider choosing the product over competitors

Design

  • Features
    • Just the web, no app store
    • Dynamic home screen
    • Browse the WoT nearby
    • Automatic updates
    • Firefox Sync & Add-ons
  • Early UI Mockups
  • See video of early prototype in action

Development

  • The source code for an early prototype of the tablet UI is on GitHub here.
  • This is an experimental branch of gecko which includes the prototype tablet chrome. To try out and hack on the prototype on a desktop PC you can build it in the same way you build Mulet, the B2G development environment.

Meetings

Meeting notes will be recorded on an Etherpad. Meeting times TBD.

Discussions

Contacts

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