Cotton Candy, a computer that looks like an USB thumb drive which runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich or Ubuntu for ARM is now available for pre-order at a price of $199 plus tax and shipping (the delivery is expected in March). It's a lot more expensive than Raspberry Pi, but it also has better hardware as well as Wifi and Bluetooth:
- Dual Core ARM Cortex A9@1.2GHz CPU
- Quad Core ARM Mali-400MP Graphics Processing Unit
- 1GB DRAM
- Up to 64GB memory local storage (microSD)
- 480p/720p/1080p decode of MPEG4-SP/H.263/H.264 AVC/MPEG-2/VC1
- USB 2.0 male connector for power and connection to devices that supports USB mass storage
- MicroUSB
- HDMI 1.3 Connector with audio
- Wifi 802.11b/g/n
- Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
Cotton Candy can run either as a completely functional computer when connected to a monitor or you can plug it into a computer and run it inside your current OS thanks to a virtualization client embedded in the device.
You can pre-order Cotton Candy @ store.cstick.com
