ODROID tablet sports Hummingbird application processor, shows off naked dev edition on video
By Vlad Savov 
posted April 14th 2010 9:36AM
posted April 14th 2010 9:36AM
posted April 14th 2010 9:36AM
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I want!!!!
What part of "tablets cant have thin bezels, else you cant hold em properly" did this particular engadget writer not understand?
@w451208
The tablet or the "naked dev"?
@w451208 It was the music that suckered you in, wasn't it?
The bezel-less prototype looks so "future", I wan't it now!
This looks a-kin to nothing I've seen yet....
I'm sorry but, I can't buy this. Needs more bezel!
@da Black Anarch
I agree, just looks too fragile
@stoney1973
Yup, just like all those new, fancy cellphones. Nothing to hold on to. I miss the days when you really had something to hold on to.
@da Black Anarch I've got a FEVER. A FEVER FOR MORE BEZEL!
Price and release date, please.
Hopefully that's debug crap hanging off of the edges and there will be little bezel on this.
It looks kinda ugly...
You guys know it's not the final product, right?
It could definitely use some more bezel.
That's one sweet bezel!
I think none of these should be presented if they don't have a release date or a price.
Some have looked quite nice, but once we find out the price, they are dismissed because for what they are, they aren't worth more then $500 at best, but they think they can charge more.
I vote for no more previews, unless a solid price is confirmed and put in the headline.
Is the websurfing slow because of the connection, or is it the processor that is making it take so long to load pages?
I can tolerate those kinds of delays on a phone, but on a tablet I'd want surfing to be as fast as a desktop experience.
More android fragmentation, wonderful.
@Shalabi yes.. android fragmentation with different resolutions will destroy OS..
@Shalabi Right??? Slap Chrome OS on that sucker man!
The scrolling seems a little laggy. I hope it's because this is the dev prototype.
By the way, can we at least have a release date for HP Slate, MS Courier, Notion Ink Adam and whatnot? I really want to see how they compare to iPad.
Sub $300 + flash and I'd seriously consider investing in one.
And here I am about ready to buy a laptop - am I investing in something I shouldn't? The whole world seems to be tablet- or smartphone-centric - guess I am getting buyer's remorse...
@poblano Get the laptop. It'll be far more useful and probably unlesss you're getting a really high end one actualy much cheaper then a smartphone, and also more useful then any tablet because you have a keyboard and probably a dualcore processor. of course you could get a convertible tablet.
I want that song thats playing in the background.
They need to optimize core Android apps for bigger screens
like Apple did with the iPad for Android tablets to be useful !
@seven7dust
Agreed. 10-foot UI on a tablet is frickin' ridiculous.
@richb93
10-foot tablet would be even more ridiculous =O
@SFR
now wait a minute! If they release a 10 ft tablet, that could replace my projector +10 ft screen. I'd definitely get that.
Might need a few people to help me whenever I go portrait mode though!
Why do these manufacturers insist on touting their devices capability of displaying 1080p, when the screen can only handle 720p anyways. Slate did the same thing.
@Gnaget They're not saying it can display 1080p, but it can play 1080p. Though the screen can only display 720p, many movies are in 1080p, so it's good if you can still play those.
@Gnaget
because you can use it to stream movies to a larger screen
@charlied Neither the slate, nor this device, claim hdmi output, thus you will not be displaying it on a larger screen. Point taken about 1080p encoded material, though you are better off dropping the resolution and saving yourself the disk space.
@Gnaget
the slate does have hdmi
Are you guys sure this is a real company or just some youtube video from some kids bedroom?
I like it. Leave the thin bezel, add a slide out querty and it will be perfect (you can use the kb as a holder - for those having "tablet holding" issues)
Who sounds like would win? A hummingbird or a snapdragon? I would want to make the name something a little edgier.
@kandekilla In case you didn't know, a snapdragon is a kind of flower... sooo neither of them are edgy.
I will change the browser to Opera Mini.
Can we get another demo showing some multimedia - HD Movies, youtube HD and a few other applications? That looks really promising.
I wish all these announcements would start being real products. I need something to keep everyone from going Apple crazy here.
Sure speed and ability to multitask are big.
But all I really want is a clean UI. That's new. And worth 500-700$
How hard is it to throw in something that easy.
Cough ipad, joo joo, HP slate, Adam. Cough
If this has a decent UI. I'm in.
more bezel? wtf are people smoking. If i't not huge you can hold it by the sides in one hand and you don't need much if any bezel. It's why I'd rather get a 7" screen than a 10" screen. If you're pinching the bezel on your slate, be prepared to drop the thing often.
Another Geek wet dream.
Who is the company? Hard Kernal?
I am predicting epic fail.
This is getting to be really easy.
Is it just me, or does this look like a window from Aero?