Well isn't this the most unlikely partnership of the year. Apparently world famous designer and maker of watches/belts Pierre Cardin thought the tablet selection in the world was lacking, and teamed up with a small Taiwanese OEM to bring some touchscreen devices to market. We checked out the line today, and though both the 7-inch PC729 and 8.9-inch PC819 tablets are rather thick the build quality is actually solid. The tablets pack resistive multitouch displays and include a stylus for navigating around Windows 7. Internally they're packing
VIA's older C7-M processors which doesn't mean good things on the battery life front -- we can't imagine these things running for longer than two hours. All we know is that we're loving the attachable leather murse that opens up to reveal a rubbery physical keyboard. Whether you'd shell out $450 ($300 without Windows 7) for one of these really just depends on how much you love Pierre Cardin -- the man, not the tablet maker.
posted March 3rd 2010 10:04PM
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@CaptainPlanet
It's a Taiwanese tablet, not Malaysian.
@CaptainPlanet koalas!
Dad's gonna love this.
reminds me of the TC1100 hp tablets.
That's actually pretty decent looking and at a surprisingly nice price. I would say that it's definitely a 1st gen-product, but if they put the tablet on a diet on a future version and made it a little thinner, and found a better/easier way to attached and detach that keyboard this could be a great product. Oh yeah, and ditch the stupid name-brand licensing deal which would hopefully allow the price to drop $50 or so - but even at $450, that's still a very reasonable price.
Manufacturers, please make a case like this for the iPad!
@Maroonfree They probably will without the keyboard. Plus the ipad is stupid windows seven tablets are better that support flash and run on non-mobile software
Yes, Griffin and M-Edge already have folio style cases ready to ship. The this rubber keyboard is what would be great.
As for windows 7 tablets being better:
Yes, if you need to run specific desktop applications. Otherwise, I don't have time to wait for windows to boot up, and then watch an atom slowly unfold each application. Getting stuff done is more important to me. Home button, swipe, and go. Words Documents, Sketching Applications, Books, Photos, Games, Videos, Facebook... all seconds away. No Flash? Yeah that one is pretty ridiculous, but not a deal breaker.
@Maroonfree The iPad?
You mean finger paint, not sketch right?
As far as word documents, you do realize that all you can have open is the word editor right?
As for movies, you do realize that there's no DIVX or alternate codec support right?
As for games, you do realize the a great deal of them are intended to be controlled using the accelerometer on a 4.8oz iphone, not a 1.5lb brick, right?
@Luxury Guy
lmao, good point.
As for waiting for windows to boot up, theres always the laptop settings with either option you like, hybernate, or sleep.
@Maroonfree Have you used an Atom netbook running Windows 7 before? I sounds like you copycat your complaints from others who have never used one. I own an Acer Aspire One 532H. Standard, 1GB, 1.66GHz. It takes literally no time to launch any program. Firefox opens within 2 seconds (fairly heavy program). As for booting, it take usually a little more then 45 seconds to go from a cold boot to a Windows 7 Ultimate desktop.
I know you like to think your important and busy, and that your time is valuable. Do not kid yourself. Just because something is fast does not make it useful. My laptop can run Windows 98 like a dream, but that counts for dick all. Likewise for the iPad.
So please relate your posts to FACT, apposed to the dribble on the sides of your mouth.
@Sodapop
If these so-called full Windows tablets are so much better than the iPad, then why didn't they sell in huge numbers in the past? Most likely because they were heavy, bulky and had poor battery life. They were not consumer friendly.
The Apple iPad will sell in the millions of units category and that will be important to reach consumers. I'm not saying this Pierre Cardin Slate is crap. I'm only pointing out that it will not have any mass appeal. It's good for geeks and that's all. It might as well be a convertible netbook.
@popo
I own an iphone, Acer One netbook and a Macbook Pro.
Multitouch on anything running an atom is the most hilariously sluggish thing in the world. Watching crippled hardware try to run a full-sized operating system irritating and unproductive. If you don't perceive it this way, good for you, enjoy life in 1998.
The iPad has an OS fit for it's hardware, and in turn will have a fast, intuitive experience that will fit the needs of millions.
Stylus = 20th century
They used to think it was a good idea...
@HansImGlueck - if it's just for item selection and kepad type test entry, a resistive touch device a stylus is redundant - but for those of us that need to do alot of writing on our tablets, then a digitizer pen and appropriate screen are a must. In all the Motion computing devices and even on the old HP TC1x00(as mentioned above), the wacom screen and pen work delightfully in window7 for copious handwriting. Being able to turn pages of notes into text at a click (in windows journal) is pretty nifty.
From the mockups(CG and otherwise), MS is sticking to their 'ink' roots with their courier tablet. As for the Pierre Cardin tablet...I'm not sure why anyone would bother... not really a name you can trust when it comes to tablet computing?? :)
Many decades ago I bought Pierre Cardin floppy disks at a market.
Somehow I doubt they were an officially sanctioned product, but they were rather stylish pieces of rectangular plastic.
Whats up with all the freakin' bezel?!
Resistive multitouch? I thought that tech was still in testing?
To me..the price is right..will only get lower. But why not at least put in an atom?!
wow that looks so sexy.
my pants seem to be staying up just fine.
Am I seriously the only one who looks at this and sees a HTC Shift rehash?
Or even a HTC Athena?
7" Touch Screen + Keyboard
2+ Hours Battery Life
Built in Leather Case
Really?
HTC Shift
http://pocketables.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/11/ces08_htc_shift_5.jpg
http://pocketables.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/11/ces08_htc_shift_7.jpg
HTC Athena
http://www.mobilitysite.com/blogimages/HTCAthenaPicturesWOW_7971/athena_13.jpg
RESISTIVE TOUCH WITH
MULTITOUCH!?!@?!@#?@#3
why couldnt they have added that to my samsung omnia, WTF?
I WAS going to make a comment regarding the title . . .
"Pierre Cardin tablets won't keep your pants up"
and ask how such a diminutive 'puter could be made for pr0n.
But upon reading the rest of the article, it's so full of innuendo that I honestly can't do justice for a comment like that. Case in point . . .
"both the 7-inch . . . and 8.9-inch . . . are rather thick the build . . . is . . . solid."
"All we know is that we're loving the attachable leather [thingy] that opens up to reveal a rubbery [thingy]."
"Whether you'd shell out $450 . . . for one of these really just depends on how much you love Pierre Cardin -- the man . . .."
I stopped the video at "resistive".
@Very Powerfull Codfish
Why would you want anything but a resistive screen on a computer? Resistive screens are far more accurate, plus this is a multi touch resistive screen, so you really don't miss out on any of the features that a capacitive one has anyways.
Man for 300 without win7 that actually sounds like a really good deal.. As much as I don't need one, I would consider getting one.
Saw these also today, I tought it was a fake, not really Pierre Cardin. They didn't give me the right feeling, they just didn't feel premium enough....