EROS Shenzhen tablet has Atom, 2 hours of battery life and a $450 price tag
By Joanna Stern 
posted January 19th 2010 9:48PM
posted January 19th 2010 9:48PM
posted January 19th 2010 9:48PM
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Oh snap, 2 hours!? Sign me up!
@EGOvoruhk
would be a sweet 2 hours though!
@EGOvoruhk
Odd the title says
''2 hours of battery life''
The Text Says
''It all sounds fairly good until you hear about its three-cell battery's abysmal HOUR AND A HALF run time''
well 1hr 30mins is really poor for any device. a 3hr battery minimum should be the least for all netbooks, tablets, umpc etc
and the magazine has 2 decades of shelf life and a $2.99 price tag
The 720p video playback is nice however, an hour and a half of battery life = Fail. That's not even long enough to watch the entire engadget show. WTF!!
@Edobe
True, true. But it's enough to see Josh run out of jokes.
@Edobe actually, it is.. well, at least the last engadget show, as it was only 1 hr + 11 minutes.
Oh Snapdragon! Should of been used instead....
That's where wireless power should be useful.
@Indefinite Implosion
Please tell me you're being sarcastic
To think that by this time next year, Engadget will be reviewing the Windows Mobile "Seven" WXGA phone with 720p decoding on a 3.8" screen for +10 hrs..... makes me want to disregard this 1.5 hr 10" tablet.... This is why companies don't leak their products...
Beat that iSlate!
Of course you will, won't you Apple? :)
@Comment
Soooo wouldn't surprise me if the Apple tablet looked quite a lot like this.
@Wolfticket The Apple tablet definitely won't look like that.
Employees blood : buttons
Of course Wintel tablets are thick. Most of them are running full version of a PC OS. To do that, you have to use hardware to support it - resulting in a thicker unit.
Thinner units end up being netbooks. Or, well, phones. I love the smartphone revolution that has happened. But it is going to be a hard sell for me to spend a few hundred dollars or more on something that just bigger than my iPhone. Even the mythical Apple tablet has me doubting how useful it will truly be.
But I hope. I hope the new HP tablets review well. I could use a nice tablet for my business work, but it has to run productivity software - not just apps from the Apple store.
@Anatidae lul.. "thicker unit"
mid $400s is about what I'd pay for something like this, but show me that courier!
The batter life is too poor to really be worth it.
with xp, it probably can run up to 3 hours.
Nice size. Nice resolution. Poor processor. Poor OS. Absymal battery life.
Absolutely stupid price tag.
I'm sorry.... 2 hours?
@werty1432k thats what SHE said ;D
@iroydude +1 my friend
it was designed by a guy called "surfing wing", who is an active user in forum.xitek.com, which is the largest photography forum in china. more pics can be found here http://item.taobao.com/auction/item_detail-0db1-e3c3bfa89dde0ab26eaf5006cdc4f633.htm and here is some detailed info, if u can read chinese http://www.shanzhaiji.cn/mobile/20100120/15235.html
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more pictures about it here
http://hi.baidu.com/neldon/blog/item/00857824e604cc20d40742df.html
i've got a better name for it: "the ripoff"'
If Apple (or HP) can't do better than this then just forget it.
Almost 2 pounds? I was hoping for something closer to the Kindle's 10 ounces. Remember you're going to hold this with one hand while you watch TV...
Almost an inch thick? Again, hoping for better. My Acer AS1810 is only a little thicker than this. Clearly, its possible to pack things tighter than this, for damn sure.
Less than two hours battery? Well, that is a problem. Atom isn't bad. Course they're claiming 720p video playback, which means Atom + Ion or something. Which might be why the battery life is so poor. Obviously Apple will do something using Tegra or whatever, with some kind of ARM core. Plus work their magic. Still... battery life is going to be a problem with this size screen and given the desire for light weight and given that its not going to be OLED this year anyway...
They should stop making tablets until the rumored islate comes out. I mean anyone who has any idea about the tablets right now will consider waiting for the apple tablet.
What's up with the name!?
This machine is completely out of touch with reality. 2 hrs battery runtime is a joke on any kind of mobile machine and is outrageous for a tablet.
Already announced/displayed Tegra2 based devices offer 4-8 times of this. True, they are not on the market yet.
2 hours LOL