The flood in the electronics market has not been checked yet !
It has almost become a daily phenomenon that an electronics maker comes up with an Android powered tablet today it is the California based CRT monitor manufacturer the Viewsonic. The company is specifically involved in making the CRT monitors, liquid crystal displays, projectors, plasma displays, HDTV technology, and mobile products, including Mini & All in One PCs and wireless monitors.
It is being reported that the Viewsonic Android tablet will have a 7 inch multi-touch screen and will be running the google android 2.2 or the upcoming Froyo operating system. The tablet will reportedly have a camera, 3G connectivity, and the ability to make voice calls, making the Viewsonic tablet a bit like an enormous smartphone — or a normal sized Huawei S7.Odds are you aren’t going to want to hold a 7 inch tablet up to your head to make calls, so I imagine the tablet will feature Bluetooth for connecting a headset… or at least a mic/headset jack.
Viewsonic is just planning on releasing this in the UK some time in the near future, and it will retail for somewhere around the 500-range (to be precise between the $437 to $637 range). No word on whether or not it will ever come to the states? The machine has a lookalike that has already been released in China and it is called the Viewsonic Viewtablet 101 that device however has some really great specs and if you add the Froyo OS to that hardware it becomes one that cannot be resisted.
The Viewtablet 101 boasts a rather speedy 1Ghz ARM A9 SMP processor within alongside a NVIDIA Tegra T20 chipset which ought to provide more than sufficient graphical firepower wherever you are. In addition, the VTablet 101 will also come with an 8.9″ display at 1,024 × 800 resolution coupled with a front camera, 4GB of internal flash memory, 3D graphics capability, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity as well as 3G support. While it will retail for $440 thereabouts after conversion, there is no mention of the VTablet 101 hitting the US market. The new Android tablet is expected to have the hardware specs similar to the one and besides these the tablet will also run the Froyo OS which will lend so many more features to the hardware
Up till now Android devices have used Flash Lite, which is only a very limited way of viewing Flash content. Flash Player 10.1 will allow you to view Flash content on your phone, in almost exactly the same way as you would on your PC. The new OS will enable you to install the applications on your memory stick so that now you do not need to be dependent on your phone’s memory to install the applications now you can even install the applications that are bigger than the internal memory size and do not waste the internal memory on installing applications. So the tablet owners do not need to provide huge internal memory on their devices to make them able to run large number of applications.
When Dell’s Streak hears about that, there’s going to be a punch-up in the tablet playground. Wonder if there are any more secret tablets hiding round the corner to come out on Viewsonic’s side?
