ViewSonic ViewPad 7x Landing Stateside in October
ViewSonic's Honeycomb-powered, 7-inch ViewPad 7x tablet will arrive late next month for a tasty price of $379 USD.
Liliputing reports that ViewSonic was showing numerous products at a Pepcom show in New York City Thursday, one of which was the ViewPad 7x tablet. Originally revealed a few months ago during Computex 2011, the company now says that it plans to launch the 7-inch device here in the States next month for $379 USD.
As reported earlier, the tablet will be powered by Google's Android 3.2 "Honeycomb" OS (including all Google services) and feature a 1024 x 600 pixel capacitive multitouch display. It will also come packed with Nvidia's 1 GHz dual-core Tegra 2 SoC, a 5MP rear-facing camera and a 2MP front-facing camera. It will also have an HDMI-out port, support DLNA media streaming, 8 GB of internal storage, SRS audio and a microSD card slot.
PC Magazine, which offers a brief hands-on stemming from Pepcom here, said that the tablet is nearly identical to the "four-star" Acer Iconia Tab A100 which sells for a cheaper $329. "I had real trouble telling them apart at first glance," PC Magazine's Sascha Segan stated. Liliputing's Brad Linder added that it offers better viewing angles and "just feels a little nicer" than Acer's similar offering. That said, the initial impressions sound positive, indicating that the device may even steal some of the thunder away from the 10.1-inch Asus Ee Pad Slider, also hitting shelves in October.
Currently an actual release date is unknown, but expect to see the ViewPad 7x tablet sometime late October. Maybe it will even sport Google's "Ice Cream Sandwich" by the time it hits the market.
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Another medicore tablet in an already oversaturated market.
As the juggernaut that is Microsoft slowly gets ready to push out Windows 8, no one is really going to invest hugely, so to see another "samey" Android tablet is not surprising.
That said it looks nice, but all I am hoping is that this drives the price down for the whole market.
This won't sell at $380. For $20 more I'll get the Asus Transformer. It has a bigger/higher resolution screen and double the flash memory.
even if this was $300, it would still be a tough buy. people want cheaper especially for only a 7" screen. 7" 16GB should be going for $250 at the most. If you can't do that, don't even bother releasing a tablet.
Too....many....tablets...of course that could be a good thing if it brings the prices down.
Honeycomb tablets will be fringe or die out once windows 8 tablets become widely available in the market (after windows 8 RTM). Nice try Google, MS will beat you on this one.
If you are thinking about getting this tablet, you should expect to not get any update beyond the version it came with. Viewsonic treat their tablet like their monitor. You get what you pay for, when you pay for it. Nothing more.
Have a look at the gTablet user community campaign on Facebook for more info.
https://www.facebook.com/gTabletOwners
Why in hell would you pay $399 for a 7" Honeycomb tablet when you can pay a similar amount for a 10" Asus EE Pad? This stupid ass companies are sabatoging themselves. It should be at the most $250 dollars. They could sell these like crazy if they priced it right. I'm starting to notice a trend here. Whenever a tablet hass honeycomb on it they price it out of the stratosphere ($375+) but when it comes with the Android Froyo or Gingerbread they fall into the $250 give or take 40 bucks catagory. Get a friggin grip Electronic companies. Like I said before...everyone wants to eat at the Apple table but they don't have the proper silverware/plates to do so. Dayum.....