No major caller are quite ready to bring a proper Android pad to market , but they ’re butt nigher . When they do , they could do bad than become out something like this 7 - inch , Tegra 2 design from Compal .
Under the bonnet is Nvidia ’s fresh Tegra , which guarantees snappy interface , telecasting and graphics performance in theory . In practice , at least on this early machine which ca n’t leverage the new graphic speedup in Android 2.1 , menu transitions are still a little dull , browser app scrolling is n’t crying , and the responsiveness of the touch keyboard poor enough to make typing a genuine painfulness in the atomic number 33 . But await wait waitress — that ’s a software program optimization egress , which can almost emphatically be fixed . What about the construct ?
The Archos 5 Android tablet , had its issues , from lack of 3 G documentation to inability to play Flash content , both of which have been remedied here — this Compal has a SIM tray as well as Flash 10.1 support . A shipped product would be dissipated than the Archos , and the extra two column inch of projection screen are just enough to make this feel like a pill , not an oversized smartphone . And to be honest , I could get into this .
It ’s a sofa tablet , a toilet tab , a Skype tablet , whatever — there ’s a market for this , at the correct price . The only serious outcome now is that typewrite on the onscreen keyboard is almost impossible on a 7 - inch silver screen , unless your pollex are freakishly long . I have no idea how Google — or Apple , for that topic — could puzzle out this job . But someone might ! And that would be bully .
UPDATE : EvidentlyVilivhas an interesting rent - keyboard solution to the typing problem . — Thanks , Tom !
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