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Breakthrough tablet device announced
TOYMAKER FOR THE WELL HEELED, Apple is already facing competition for its Ipad not only from the established ranks but from pesky upstarts such as British firm X2 which released its innovatively named Itablet today.
Despite being similar in name and appearance, X2 has seemingly gone in the opposite direction to Apple offering not only a range of hardware configurations but also support for both Windows and Linux.
Essentially the Itablet represents a tablet PC in the truest nature of the word. With two SKUs announced, the Itablet comes with either a 10.2 or 12.1-inch screen, both sporting a retro 1024x768 resolution and optional multitouch.
The 1.18kg unit will have up to three USB ports and even an optional HDMI output. The whole shebang is powered by Intel processors with the fastest available being a 1.6GHz unit along with 2GB of memory.
In keeping with the full fat tablet theme X2 has shoved a 250GB hard drive inside the Itablet which sounds good if you're going to use that HDMI port to stream videos to a bigger screen. There are more options available with GSM and 3G radios but Bluetooth and 802.11b/g networking are thrown in as standard.
Thanks to the unrestrictive nature of the Itablet's configuration bleeding edge technologies such as Adobe's Flash can be run. There's also some physical customisation with a range of colours and metallic options available.
X2 did not release pricing for the Itablet however did mention it would be on sale in April 2010, the same time that Apple's Ipad is set to hit the streets. The question is whether either company will be able to flog their products with the names they were released with. µ
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Intel Atom is a good processor for browsing Internet. This device will fit many everyday tasks.
IE6 and Flash? Might as well give it an honest name like iPwnt, or Botnet Mobile.
It still runs windows / linux
Yet again, a really decent spec tablet, let down by the fact that it will essentially be a windows box with a touch pad screwed on the front...
This sounds pretty good. A Tablet that allows it to be used as you please, unlike the offering from Apple.
Gordon... Apple Fanboy much?
Its not as if apple could not makes a bigget tablet with all the mods cons , but that has been tried before and failed.
for this form factor to work it needs to be under 1kg, needs a decent battery life3 8 hours plus, and needs to be £400 tops.
I'm willing to bet their tablets will run the same as a notebook and be to heavy to use for long!
How is this competition? It is a Windows tablet from a long line of Windows tablets.
It should sell at least as well as the earlier Windows tablets. Strange that they try to lift some of the Apple image by sticking an i in front of the name. WinTablet would have been more fitting.
I hope a whole range of companies will be doing similar and hopefully with windows 7 not xp as shown in that picture.
I like the tablet on the coffee table concept but iPhone os is going to be too restrictive for that kind of use. Not an apple hater I love my iPhone but the os should remain for phones.
Ah, I wonder what happened to you after you were banned from SemiAccurate. Still spouting your ignorant Intel-only drivel, I see.
Actually, an ARM processor makes more sense than that kludged-up bastard child Atom crap that Intel "makes".
I'm not a fan of the iPad however looking at this, well it looks boring by comparison to apples device.
What our manufacturers need to come up with is a 10.1" tablet with ssd and linux with an application front end to support touch.
if i had to buy this iTablet, i'd pick up a copy of ubuntu NBR and stick it on, instead of windows.
At least release this machine with win7 instead of xp, come on people its like showcasing the tablet of the future running the practically ancient 10 year old o/s that is xp.
this article really shows what Apple think of their own customers. This tablet is what the iPad could have been. It runs a full, multitasking, operating system, not some cut-down, single-tasking, phone OS. It's widescreen multi touch, with HDMI out, as opposed to an odd ratio multitouch. It has USB so you can plu in an HD or even a keyboard.
I'm sure whiny fanboi's will sheepishly moan that it runs windows, a stupid and irrelevent comment as there will no doubt be a way to run OSX on it (and then what would be the point of the iPad).
I've seen windows and mApple tablets before, and then of course the over-priced over-hyped iPad, but none of them offered me what i want. This does. Really, this is the first tablet which made me go 'oh!!' i would actually consider getting one. I bet it's cheaper than an iPad as well.
so that's not widescreen then !! Still lush though !!
Personally, I would pay a premium price for a Pixel QI screen.
What are they waiting for ?.
And ARM + Tegra ?
You can run Linux and Windows on this AND it has actual connection ports like USB and HDMI. This alone makes it better than the bloody ipad (no pun intended). When will people realize that when you buy an apple product you are buying closed hardware and software from a control freak billionaire?
Even Hitler hates the ipad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnT0zp8Ya4
The only thing that really matters about this device at this point then is the price. If it's right = win, otherwise fail. Pretty simple.
How is this big news? Nobody wanted it before, why does anyone want it now?
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/x2-brings-the-amtek-itablet-back-from-the-abyss-forgets-that-no/
it doesn't matter if it is iPad running 20 hours or Win tablet, it would fail.
To large and heavy to handle. It needs a stand(which turns it into a netbook form factor) for prolong usage.
touch computing is for occasional use. I realized why Tom Cruise was so fit in 'minority report', just try to mimic him in how to operate a computer without keyboard. It is just like dancing for 2 hours.
iPhone is already the optimal size for general purpose touch interface, kindle would only be good for reading because of the size, can't hold it with one hand and operate with the other.
Notice it looks more like an 8:5 aspect ratio (close to the “Golden Ratio”), unlike the tubbier 4:3 of the iPad. And the bezel is thinner.
Shows you how poorly the iPad was designed, when any Tom, Dick or Harry can come up with a better-looking alternative.
Anyone and everyone can match hardware specs. As Apple knows, software is what wins.
Microsoft needs to release a "Tablet OS" that doesn't require bootup, managing dll's, virus scanners, drivers, defragging your hard drive, etc. You hit the on button and it's ready for use. The tablet is a different space than the PC. If you want the power of a portable PC, use a netbook or laptop.
Old people and techno-phobes want a device that simply works for emails, surfing, reading book and magazines, listening to music or watching TV shows or movies. It should work like a refrigerator. Every time you open the door, the light comes on and it's cold inside. It shouldn't be complicated to use.
This is why the iTab will sell like hotcakes. 75 year old people who don't have a PC will discover the internet.
And the batt life is? Since they aren't touting it... must be crapsk.
BTW, as far as thin bezels go, try grabbing that with one hand. Works great if you're a lobster. Apple design team knows what they'e doing. Too bad MS hardware design team is a joke - if they weren't, we would've had a slick wPad long long ago.
The iPad concept IS the wave of the future... whether MS decides to spend some of that 30 billion in cash they have socked away to buy real hardware design talent for a wPad is, as usual, nothing but a distant dream...
As of to-day's date & according to Apples own list of trademarks at
http://www.apple.com/legal/trademark/appletmlist.html
iPad is NOT an Apple trademark!!!
However, it is possible that Apple could get an injunction against X2 to disrupt or even prevent the launch of a product called iTablet.
"God is on the side of the big battalions" and Apple is B I G.
So my lay advice to X2 is to brand theirs as the "X2 iTablet"
Notion Ink Adam = First tablet with Pixel QI Screen (10.1") + nVidia super fast Tegra 2 + 32GB SSD + many more at approximately 320$.
Read Specifications please !
http://www.gayakuman.com/uploads/2009/12/notion_ink_smartpad_specifications.jpg
If it runs Windows, i wouldn't consider it a breakthrough at all. Really people, if it where a breakthrough device surely it would have its own OS with some great innovation and a GUI geared towards touch usabilty rather than the old chuck an exisisting copy of windows on a slate scenario that just doesnt cut it.
Ok, so let's build a breakthrough hardware device and slap a 10 years old OS on it... what a joke. A similar statement could have been made if it was running Windows 7. Those interfaces are NOT designed for tablets!