Go 'head
Aigo! Get down with your bad self. Quite frankly, we never anticipated Aigo / Patriot to come through with a me-too
tablet that actually made us take a second glance, but darn if this one isn't quite the looker. And that's before you've even had a moment to digest the specifications sheet. According to new details surfacing in China, this 7-inch machine will hum along on a 1GHz ARM Cortex A9 processor and feature NVIDIA's Tegra 2 graphics chipset. There's also 512MB of DDR2 memory, an 800 x 480 pixel multitouch display, 4/16/32GB of inbuilt storage, a USB socket, microSD slot, HDMI output, inbuilt WiFi, optional 3G WWAN, audio in / out and a 3,120mAh battery.
Android 2.1 will be the OS of choice, but crucial details surrounding price and availability are sorely missing. Call us crazy, but we'll actually be keeping an eye out for specifics on both.
Update: Well, what do you know? Seems as if this here device may in fact be a Compal NAZ-10 in disguise, and if
this YouTube video is to be believed, it'll boast 16 hours of HD video playback on a single charge and a $300 price tag. Can you say "tempting?" Thanks, Alain!
posted May 3rd 2010 3:26AM
Looks like the floodgates have opened.
@Clyzm The floodgates of vaporware. Really, we already saw a LOT of slates and tablets during CES, yet where are they now? I want competition god damn it.
@pika2000
Hey, if the JooJoo didn't turn out to be vaporware, I've got faith.
Yawn. Had my iPad for a month now. I wonder if the competition will actually manage to ship something decent by the time Apple release rev2?
Competition is good, but you would have thought someone could have released something decent by now.
Wonder if Apple have hit a million sales yet?
@pika2000 Where are all the Apple haters who were screaming that Courier, JooJoo, or HP slate will kill the iPad? Keep hiding in your holes guys and waiting for the next vapourware instead of getting a real product and start using it today.
That cool Palm Tablet is years to come.
@Clyzm
The bezelgates don't you mean?
Just when you thought the ipad had too much bezel you realise it was just a scout bezel.
@kyphem
the slate and the courier were amazing ideas, the companies making them just werent happy with them.
its better to not release a product than release a crap one just so you can flood it (coughcoughapple) even if its missing pretty damned basic features
@HoldenMccrotch
"the slate and the courier were amazing ideas"
To what extent?
The Slate had some interesting hardware, but a Desktop OS? Battery life?
The Courier - great idea, but for how many people?
1. Note takers - you will do with one screen - better battery life, less heavy, cheaper.
2. If you do sketching/drawing like me (that's why I bought a Lenovo tablet), I am pretty sure everyone would prefer one 12" screen over two 7".
Not to mention the software that must be written for this Courier.
So basically the Courier was too much of a niche. Imagine everything needed to create and produce such a device (already a difficult task) and then price it between the iPad and a Tablet PC.
So, amazing concepts? Yes. Amazing execution? Hardly.
And they come too late. Everybody here claim how Apple invented nothing, yet the real products coming on the shelves are Apple's.
@pika2000 Somehow this reminds me of the alluring brochures of the archos 7 -- hopefully it won't remain in paper only. http://j.mp/archos-7-tablets-reactions
@Atkins "slate was amazing"?
How was it amazing, when Viliv released their X70EX 7" slate more then a year ago;
Atom processor? Check.
Decent sized display? Check. (I like 7" form factor over 9")
Desktop OS? Check.
Battery likef of >6 hrs? Check.
How was the HP slate any sort of a revolutionary improvement? It was dissapointing in that they hadn't even managed to catch up with a small Korean manufacturer.
@tmarks11 Wow, judging from the video ... the device is laggy and unresponsive. Let's hope it's their software implementation.
Considering how fast the Incredible is, I expect much much more from Tegra 2...
@HoldenMccrotch
There is a HUGE difference between "amazing ideas" and an actual product. SciFi movies have "amazing ideas". That's not a difficult thing to do. But translating those "amazing ideas" into a real product is the whole point. You make it sound like coming up with "amazing ideas" is the critical part.
Good luck chasing down those unicorn tablets at the end of the rainbow.
@wilvo
Nowhere near, not even 300000 yet
@Clyzm
Lol
I don't know if referencing the joojoo is the best of ideas
:)
Yeahhhhhh!!! Make it slim n sexy, and 10inch plzzzzzzzzzzzzz
@applehateboy
That's what she said.
@applehateboy
10" and slim, I thought thickness mattered more? LOL
@applehateboy I prefer 7" and I think aigo will price this right as well, I might buy one!
Nice. If I wanted a tablet, this would be the one I'd go for.
Now I just need a netbook with these specs...
Very impressive that they are building stuff with a cortex A9 CPU, though the 3000mah battery is a joke.
Same story over and over again. Great specs, but nobody seems. To be able to put it together with a big battery and an IPS display. Those are the two a real selling points of the iPad. For a long time, apple ruled with the ipod because they would buy up all the 1.8" hard drives on the market and everyone else would be stuck using older, smaller capacity, drives.
@DrDr You do realize it uses less power than the iPad, right? Smaller screen and it has Tegra 2, both are more power efficient than the iPad. You have a point with IPS, but I would easily take USB, HDMI, and Tegra 2 over an IPS screen.
@Jacob1
Uhm, how do you know Tegra 2 uses less power than the A4 in the iPad? I'd guess it's the other way around seeing that Tegra has a more advanced GPU, and the A4 has specific modifications to make it more power efficient than the typical A8 core (ie: lot's of stuff has been removed from it).
OT:
The thing looks sexy and well-built, but I still don't see these things catch on. Too much Android stuff on the market, too many OS versions, too many hardware differences, which means fragmentation which will result in less great applications that just work, and more user frustration.
@Jacob1 Yeah, just as you realize this isn't out yet? I'd hold judgement on the 3000mah battery/tegra2 combo beating out the iPad config until they can both be tested. Maybe yes, maybe no.
@drange Assuming it's a 45 nm Cortex A9, it will be more power-efficient than the A4's 45 nm Cortex A8.
@Jacob1
USB, HDMI, Tegra2 > IPS Screen? And I like oranges better than the number four.
Seriously, even if the Tegra2 is better than the A4 (is it?), it doesn't offer enough additional features or performance for me to care. Sure more ports would be nice, but the screen is pretty much the only way you interact with a tablet. IE, the tablet is the screen... you'd really trade away its quality and viewing angles for more ports?
@deslock well number 4 sounds like death in Chinese so I like oranges better too.
Tegra 2 is waaay better than the A4, least of which due to it being Cortex A9 versus Cortex A8. Tegra is known for its power efficiency, and having better performance.
I'll give up IPS because I absolutely need/want microSD and USB. That is without exception, and therefore I can't go with the iPad. I'm only going to look for alternatives that have microSD and USB (HDMI is a bonus). IPS screens are cool, but not extremely necessary.
Quite epic really. Aigo here, have a cookie.
3,120mAh battery? lol.
As much as I like the iPad I would also like to see some other devices on the market. I guess this one won't be one of them.
爱国
@crow610
Translation: patriotic. (?!?)
I hate you, Google Translate.
800x480 on a 7-inch screen is kind of small...
@Mattg
But way more portable. Even pocket sized for those of us who don't have gigantic pockets.
So basically. A bigger than a phone screen that is still not too big to be easily portable with Android, USB, HDMI etc.. Sounds pretty good to me.
@(Unverified) He meant the resolution dumbass. You could still put a higher resolution on a 7 inch screen.
@engadgetcomexcludeengadget Exactly, this is cell phone resolution, which means even though the screen is 7", it'll look the same as your android phone when put 2-3" closer to your face.
where is the bluetooth on these tablets ?
@smeee it has Bluetooth.
personally, i'm just glad that they chose to put an A in aigo
@glenskey
It was either that or getting buttraped by Apple.
Gotta say, that NON-vaporware Android iPad KIRF is looking friendlier every time Engadget posts these vapor products.
When will this become vapourware any predictions?
@kyphem in 2013
so is a 3150 mAh battery good or bad? pls enlighten me coz there seems to be alot of remarks regarding the battery
@tcdmagic Seems decent to me, as most smartphones have a battery capacity of about 1000-1500mah...
@tcdmagic well without any specs on how much power the device consumes mAh is really a meaningless number
@tcdmagic In fact, I'd be surprised if the iPad's is any bigger (than Aigo's)...
@SlimSpaceman The link claims 11.5 W, but I'll assume it's W-h (11.5 watts is laptop territory), compared to 25 W-h on the iPad.
@tcdmagic
Don't worry abotu what people say here. Most people have no idea what they are talking about.
3150 mAH is perfectly usable.
Consider the HTC HD2 has a 1250 mAH, 1 Ghz processor, 500 mb ram, 800x480 display. That lasts about 4.5 hours of continuous usage of surfing over 3G with a couple things running in background.
Reading an eBook with display at 60% brightness (ideally you should set it even lower for confort), the 1250mAH battery can last around 8 hours.
That's a 1250mAH battery powering the same MHZ processor, same resolution, similar RAM. 3150mAH is more than enough to last 10 hours. If I had that capacity ini my HD2, I'm sure it'll power my device for at least 14 hours of heavy use.
@ounkeo "Most people have no idea what they are talking about."
And what about the display size?
@ounkeo Not really a good comparison as the 1 GHz Cortex A9 is a very different processor than the Snapdragon (which is has roots in Cortex A8 but is really a custom-built CPU).
What it does illustrate however is a worst-case scenario. The 1 GHz Cortex A9 is not only more power efficient than the Snapdragon (and performs significantly better), but assuming it's a 45 nm chip (a de-facto standard for Cortex A9 unless I'm mistaken), it's going to be about 20-30% more power efficient than the 65 nm Snapdragon.
@Jacob1 The iPad specs list the same thing:
"Built-in 25-watt-hour rechargeable lithium-polymer battery"