Video: Hanvon / Hanwang's aluminum-clad tablet does Windows 7 multitouch

You know that tablet we keep waiting for? Well, here's something that looks very much like it, but for the Windows 7 operating system and purported Atom processor inside. This 8.9-inch, two USB port-sporting device can pull off multi-touch pinching and zooming -- albeit with a lag akin to wading through water -- and is outfitted in a rather becoming all-aluminum case. It could make for a pretty desirable movie-playing machine on the go, provided it has the battery prowess for such tasks. Chinese folks will know for sure pretty soon, with the release coming before year's end -- presumably just as soon as the company figures out which westernized version of its name to use. Check out the video after the break.

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[Satz Posted Sep 29th 2009 5:07AM]

"You know that tablet we keep waiting for? " No I was NOT.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 29th 2009 5:20AM]

"Very Responsive"

Hardly, did you see how slow those images were resiszing? That would be unbearable.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 29th 2009 11:11AM]

I know that was the funniest part.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 29th 2009 5:22AM]

Looked like it was chugging on that Multi-Touch demo pretty roughly. After all the hype for a multi-touch tablet, I have a hard time convincing myself why I would need one anyways.

An Apple tablet would only be even remotely awesome to me if it had access to the app store, perhaps a good camera (since it wouldn't be a gaming machine and all...), GPS, microphone, and internal speaker. Connection to popular wireless services would be very cool too.

If it were just a tablet that ran OSX, I could hardly care less, really.

[Satz Posted Sep 29th 2009 5:35AM]

very good

[put4558350 Posted Sep 29th 2009 5:39AM]

CrunchPad. Where are you ?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 29th 2009 5:50AM]

I dont have anything to contribute to the topic at hand, but i just wanted to say:

Hang Wang

Thats all

[Wwhat Posted Sep 29th 2009 6:59PM]

You could have mentioned the strange square LED lamp reflected in the display at least.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 29th 2009 5:52AM]

is it just me or Hanvon's logo has the lenovo font all over it?

[Vitaliy Posted Sep 29th 2009 6:35AM]

no Aero- No windows 7

[put4558350 Posted Sep 29th 2009 7:10AM]

it's Windows 7 Starter so it don't have Aero

[Plexus Posted Sep 29th 2009 6:40AM]

With off the shelf (off the web actually) components, a little cannibalization, and very light modding, I have assembled an uber-digiframe which is more of a so called "tablet-PC" than this.
It sports a 10" multitouch screen, wifi (full browsing with flash support), webcam(for skype or other voip),good stereo sound, support for most photo, audio and video codecs, D-TV, FM & wifi radio, BT stereo and BT mouse and k-board (if desired), light sensor, 2usb ports and SDcard reader+8Gb ssd, powered by an Atom 270 running Ubuntu or Xp sp3.
Apart for the fact that it needs to be feeded by a power outlet (or an external battery bigger and heavier that the thing itself) ; judgeing from this vid my contraption works far better than this thing.

[Xepol Posted Sep 29th 2009 6:47AM]

I will have to see a price before I get excited about anything.

Also, I might be happier if it was just a USB display instead of a crippled computer with a cheap processor and no battery (and for a form factor that demands a battery it seems poorly designed) Again, better if it was just a USB display for 200$.

Still, even if it fails, it might push the market forward.

[Alex Wright Posted Sep 29th 2009 7:38AM]

Where did it say it didn't have a battery? And how would a USB display be better or more useful that a low spec PC.

If you want a USB display, buy a usb display.

[umang Posted Sep 29th 2009 6:52AM]

You know why they chose Oct 22, 2009 and Oct 13, 2009 for the Windows 7 launch dates?

Add 22-10-2009 and 13-12-2009, 2 + 2 + 1 + 0 + 2 + 0 + 0 + 9 = 1 + 3 + 1 + 0 + 2 + 0 +0 +9 = 16,

1 = 6 = ...

Coincidence, I think not!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 29th 2009 6:59AM]

Those periods of universal quantum equality will be the death of us all.


Wait...what?

[Decoy Posted Sep 29th 2009 7:06AM]

Nice. I also read David Icke.

[umang Posted Sep 29th 2009 10:50AM]

woops ... sorry ... i meant *1 + 6 = ...*

[stridermt2k Posted Sep 29th 2009 7:26AM]

Wow.
What happens if Apple makes an Atom-based tablet?

Engadget won't know weather to piss all over it or to piss all over themselves.

[Federaly Posted Sep 29th 2009 7:50AM]

Hmmm well you know the new i7 mobile chipset is out, Unlikely as it maybe =[

If it had a battery life of 4-6hours that would be awesome. I think it really would need even a 256dedicated graphics card or something and at least 3gb RAM. What if they put in one of those CULVchips?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 29th 2009 9:21AM]

The atom processor seems to be significantly underpowered to run the multitouch features. This had better be cheap...

[whormongr Posted Sep 29th 2009 1:25PM]

they really should make anything w/multitouch functionality on a machine with a better processor and more memory and a better gfx processor

[Wwhat Posted Sep 29th 2009 7:04PM]

My thoughts on the 'pinch' zoom is that it's OK if it's one pinch (or counter-pinch for lack of a better word) but if you need to do it several times to zoom further it is not ergonomic any more.

So what do you think? Adopt counter-pinch as a term?

[Gad Get Posted Sep 29th 2009 7:37PM]

We need an x86 equivalent of Tegra. Badly.