ViewSonic Reveals ViewPad 10e with IPS Display
ViewSonic is launching yet another Android tablet in November featuring a 9.7-inch IPS display.
Tuesday ViewSonic revealed the ViewPad 10e Android-based tablet featuring a 9.7-inch IPS (in-plane switching) display with a 1024 x 768 resolution. The IPS aspect should mean that the display will offer the same aspect, resolution and pixel density as the iPad 2 while also boasting 400nits, providing better viewing angles than other tablets in the value-priced market.
According to the company, the tablet will sport a 1 GHz Cortex A8 single-core processor, 512 MB of DDR3 memory, 4 GB of internal storage and a microSD card slot for adding an additional 32 GB of storage. Other features will include a 1.3MP camera, 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth 3.0 connectivity, a mini HDMI port, a 5400mAh Li-Poly battery and a 3.5-mm headphone jack.
"The ViewPad 10e does not just have impressive hardware specifications," the company said Tuesday. "Amazon Kindle is pre-installed providing immediate access to 700k+ books, magazines and papers, all displayed as they were meant to appear on the extra wide viewing angles an IPS panel brings. In addition ViewSonic includes a market place application which allows access to thousands of additional applications and games."
ViewSonic also described the tablet as "hyper-slim," as it will measure only 0.36-inches thin and weigh only 1.37 pounds. Unfortunately, the tablet will be powered by Google's Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" OS instead of the tablet-friendly "Honeycomb" build, and it won't even support Google services like the Android Market. But the tablet will offer ViewScene 3D which will provide a customizable 3D style user interface that "maximizes the IPS panel technology."
"Offering 16 customizable panels, intelligent interactive grouping, 3D style widgets and multiple time zone support, ViewScene 3D takes the ViewPad 10e to the next level," ViewSonic said Tuesday.
So far there's no word on pricing or actual availability here in the States, but James Coulson, European marketing manager of ViewSonic Europe told Pocket-lint that the tablet will be available "this side of Christmas at a value orientated price point under the ViewSonic brand." HotHardware reports that the tablet will actually launch in early November in Europe -- a North American release should be sometime thereafter.
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How about a Tegra 2 with 3.1? The Viewsonic G Tab was cool except the 512mb RAM and having to update the OS.
Why in the world would you invest good money for a good display and then put an old operating system on it.
Here is my wishlist Tegra 2 tablet running honeycomb (with promis to be upgradable to ICS), Display like the one described above, 16 Gig, Full Size SD slot (micro SD is acceptable if the form factor is able to be thin), 9-10" in screeen size, Front and rear cameras (Similar to what is in the majority of the tablets already), and a price tag of $299 or less. I think at that point, you would have a winner.
And another wave of Apple lawsuits begin in 3, 2, 1...
There are Android PHONES with more impressive hardware than this... Something like this should sell for max. $150.
Yay. Now I will be able to read my ebooks at oblique angles!
Yay. Now I will be able to read my ebooks at oblique angles!
But not in direct sunlight.
Great, another Viewsonic tablet you have to root and flash a ROM to for it to be a "real" Android device. Guess they didn't learn anything from the failure of the Gtab, and here's to hoping that they don't abandon Viewpad owners like they did the Gtab's. Personally, I'll never buy another Viewsonic product.
Ya know, I simply do not understand why companies refuse to put Gingerbread on their tablets. The consumers have spoken, we want GINGERBREAD. And why block Android market when they have nothing at all to replace it with? If they had their own market i could understand but they dont! they just flat out blocked any one. I'm dumbfounded by these companies decisions. They are shooting themselves in the foot.
They had me up until the review said no Android Market. A tablet without an app market is DOA device.
Too many buttons for my taste. Why bring frontal buttons at all? They can easily be simulated by multi touch gestures or even on-screen arrows. This is the main reason I've been bashing on the iPad ever since they announced it. The thing looks like a blown-up iPhone/iPod touch EXACTLY because of the home button!
Can't keep track of all these tablets...can't...
Can't keep track of all these tablets...can't...
Think its bad now, wait till Windows 8 comes out and all the OEMs come crawling out the woodwork
Think its bad now, wait till Windows 8 comes out and all the OEMs come crawling out the woodwork
True true, but at least they won't ALL suck, then! If we're lucky? God, I hope they still don't all suck next year.
The only tablets worth owning currently are the Wacoms. All the rest are just toddler-toys, catering to the lowest common denominator of nerds.
True true, but at least they won't ALL suck, then! If we're lucky? God, I hope they still don't all suck next year.The only tablets worth owning currently are the Wacoms. All the rest are just toddler-toys, catering to the lowest common denominator of nerds.
Not saying they will be bad, but it will be like the PC arms race, there will be short number of high-end vendors like your Alienware / VoodooPC type creations, followed by a heaving mass of samey-samey tablets that you can only pick apart using a police forensics lab.
As long as it runs X86 programs (intel will take care of the CPU for that) and has level of power similar to the average netbook, and priced to match, they will sell by the tens of millions.
As long as it runs X86 programs (intel will take care of the CPU for that) and has level of power similar to the average netbook, and priced to match, they will sell by the tens of millions.
Totally agree, only I'd love to see the AMD Fusions take hold... Then we could have a bit more GPU horsepower, and make it all worthwhile! Gaming on the go could someday be interesting again...
Totally agree, only I'd love to see the AMD Fusions take hold... Then we could have a bit more GPU horsepower, and make it all worthwhile! Gaming on the go could someday be interesting again...
Add a mini bluetooth keypad to get the WASD and a mini bluetooth mouse, make sure the tablet has a kickstand so it can be upright in front of you and you can 3G straight into a game of Counterstrike - FROM A PICNIC TABLE IN THE PARK!
view pads have horrible qualty. Bad experience with it.