Thomson PoMMeS IPTV tablet hits the FCC
By Donald Melanson 
posted January 26th 2010 11:46AM
posted January 26th 2010 11:46AM
A tablet with the name "pommes" turning up courtesy of the FCC a day before a certain, possibly tablet-related event? Yeah, it's not even close to what you think, but it is something: Thomson's new PoMMeS tablet. Somewhat uniquely, this device is apparently designed primarily for IPTV streaming, although you'll also get a front-mounted webcam for video calls, and at least some basic web browsing capabilities (it's still not clear what this thing runs on). Complete specs are also a bit light at the moment, but this one does apparently pack an 8-inch, 800 x 480 touchscreen display, and includes a dock that will also conveniently prop up the device for easy viewing. No indication of a price or release date, of course, but there's plenty more pictures (including a look inside) at the link below.
Cancel the show apple before this puts you to shame
@nickyP
It's like I said in another similar story, Engadget is just trolling the internet looking for poorly-made foreign market tablets to post about so as to trash the whole product category as be nothing but stuff like this, so they can help pimp Apple's sight-unseen device.
They know 99% of tablets and slates are nowhere near this cheap and terrible, but they got a narrative to push, so damn the torpedoes.
I expect at least 10 more of these before the end of the day.
Looks yummy, but bad resolution though.
Well,Well,Well, Isn't this coming out in the wrong time to compete in the tablet market...
Thompson generally make reliable products, especially when it comes to TV and TV-related gadgets.
Shame about the resolution, although, if it's meant to be a companion to a larger screen, I can see why a lower res. would help keep the cost down.
Pommes means french fries in German.
@Cence and French fries means tablet in several Bantu dialects... This certainly explains that...
@Cence
No, pommes is the plural French word pples. You may have ben thinking of the Fench for fries which is pommes frites.
@rederikus
Correct. I believe the French for potato is "Pomme de Terre", lit. "Earth Apple"
@CJ
... God I sounded like a wanker just then.
Allow me to fetch my monicle and brandy.
Sorry, that should have read "No, pommes is the plural French word for apples.".
Apologies.
OMFG it's ABOUT time. I saw the prototype and that stupid pitch to DirecTV like 3 years ago, 2 years ago it was in the CES booth where they couldn't get it to work, and a year and half ago in HKCES and they still couldn't get it to work. I guess all the layoffs paid off? Thanks Frederick Rose.
Great name, perhaps next year they can release the new version, preliminarily dubbed the "MaNZAnA"
The product is already deployed in HK and I'm using it since July 2009
http://www.pccweye.com/eye2Main/index.html
> Wi-Fi IP-TV (NowTV, over 100 channels), Video-on-demand
> Online music service (Moov, over 200,000 titles)
> Video conference with 3G phones
> Story telling for kids (Disney)
> Widgets: RSS, Horse Racing, Cooking recipes
> ...
YouTube : PCCW+Eye2 for more demo
POMMES stands for Portable Multi Media Entertainment System and the device has been on sale for almost 1 year with hong kong ISP PCCW you can easily find the data sheet on thomson website or detailed specs using google
I swear they have been flogging this with the digital TV and cable service here in Hong Kong for a few months now!!
http://www.pccw.com/Consumer/eye+Multimedia+Service+%26+eye2?language=en_US
Engadget Chinese hands-on the same machine in HONG KONG.
http://goo.gl/Ttvg