You’ve seen the best of CES, including those great upcoming Android tablets from Vizio and Asus. Now let’s take a look at some of the stranger things we saw, including some prototypes.
Toshiba 13.3-inch Prototype
Toshiba’s Excite X10 may be the thinnest 10.1-inch tablet so far, but this 13.3-incher is also the largest tablet I’ve seen. Seriously, tablets at this size are bordering on the ridiculous. But that’s just me, you may feel differently.
Sony Vaio Slider Prototype
Looking almost identical to both Intel’s new sliding tablet reference design (which itself is directly inspired by the Asus Eee Pad Slider), Sony’s prototype definitely gets high marks in the looks department. Word is that unlike the Android-powered Asus, it may end up running windows 8.
Qooq Tablet
Using a tablet in the kitchen can be handy, so much so that I already do that with my iPad. So do we really need a specialised, Linux-powered tablet that’s pretty much solely focused on displaying recipes? I’m not sold, even if it is cute and splashproof. My $US399 will be spent elsewhere. More »
Tellybear Tablet
The Tellybear is an Android-powered tablet aimed at kids. It does a decent job of running interactive books and Angry Birds, and well, looking cute. Coming to a SkyMall catalogue near you.
Gadmei T863 Android 4.0 3D Tablet
This 8-inch (1280×768) tablet runs Android 4.0, has a five-point capacitive multitouch panel and runs a 1GHz A9 CPU paired with 1GB memory. Sounds pretty great for $US160, right? (At least that’s what they told me). It’s the sort of tablet you’ll only see sold or shipped from China, but it definitely got my attention at the show. I’ll even forgive the crummy 8GB storage and gimmicky/disorienting glasses-free 3D display. Funny thing is, Asus says its 7-inch, Tegra 3 Memo tablet could also go the 3D route. Not sure how I feel about that.
light487
Friday, January 20, 2012 at 12:22 PMThe Qooq tablet, if purpose built to include a lot of boiling oil protection and all that, would be preferrable than using an expensive iPad.. but not at $400..
Again, Sony is late to the game and is bordering on copying much like other companies have been sued over for copyng in the past. The slider is a failed idea.. the transformer being the way forward in that regard.
Scott
Friday, January 20, 2012 at 10:50 PM“tablets at this size are bordering on the ridiculous”- Wrong.
Mark my words. people will have tablets they carry around with them or use essentially as e readers and these tablets will be around the 8.9 inch and smaller. then people will have tablets that just stay at home and are left on the coffee table or used to do stuff in bed or to share info/media at the diner table. These tablets will grow and 13,14 even 15 inch will become common for home tablets. Remember you heard it first from me! Oh, and because of this apple will eventually release larger and smaller iPad variants.- within 2 yrs.