Hanvon CEO smashes Apple effigy at TouchPad launch (video)
By Thomas Ricker 
posted May 19th 2010 6:20AM
posted May 19th 2010 6:20AM
posted May 19th 2010 6:20AM
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Cute.
I'm happy with everything bu... 3.5 hours of battery life? Aw.
@akbc
less bezel
@akbc
Why did they smash that glass pumpkin?
@etwashoo2 how the hell are you supposed to hold it without bezel? i cant imagine working on my iPad without it ...
@Michael Scrip for copyright reasons they couldn't use apple
@Formul
Their ability to build an apple better not be the same as their ability to build a slate...
@Formul they should have smashed a hammer and sickel instead
@akbc
Yeah, at 3.5hrs you can smash apples all day....just don't smash your charger cause you're gonna need it any time now.
@Formul I got interested in Hanvon and did a little research. Apple couldn't sell iphone in China without permission from Hanvon, so they bought the "i-phone" (with a dash) trademark from the latter last July for $3.65 million.
@Michael Scrip
Smashing Pumpkins?!?
Me likey
@Formul
You can't work on the IPad, all you can do is just waste your time on it...
@Phucpholuc
Smashing Pumpkins while Smiling Politely.
@Michael Scrip Thanks, you made my day
@monkeyman87 Barack Obama spotted.
@MoonWalkerCTE - I think you mean they should have USED a hammer and sickle to smash the Apple instead. Would have been more fitting.
@akbc
You've got to be joking! Windows 7 desktop on a light tablet. Why didn't they smash their tablet instead of the ice sculpture. This company obviously knows nothing about building a tablet for consumers. Another sales disaster in the making.
Celeron? LMAO
@Gonzie
you laugh but i guarantee its at least 5 times faster than an "a4"
@account5 not running Windows 7 it won't
@account5 I don't know why you're getting downvoted.
I suggest you look at the specs, folks. Account5 is right--the Celeron IS more powerful than an A4. The A4 is designed to run a simple OS and conserve battery life--you wouldn't want it on your desktop (unless you plan to run the iPhone OS.
@Gonzie Not just any Celeron, a 1.3GHz ULV Celeron.
Clearly has a TN display too.
So to sum up, terrible viewing angles, slow CPU, slow GPU, desktop OS, no bezel for holding it and a 3.5 hour battery.
It's like they took the worst parts you could imagine and put them together under a brand nobody knows or cares about. Failure of epic proportions.
The gesture of the ice smashing is the most publicity it could hope to achieve.
@TinWard No doubt the product sucks--and yet even the ULV processor on this thing is more powerful than the A4. The A4 is optimized for its purpose--but it is not a more powerful processor than the Celeron ULV743.
@Gonzie It's a good deal faster than the best ATOM processor.
@User Formerly Known as Dave On the technical side the Celeron is faster than the A4 however in real life performance there aren't to many machines that feel faster than the iPad the only A4 device on sale right now.
A Celeron is a mediocre desktop cpu that can barely run windows xp and the A4 is a processor designed to run the iPhone OS.
I personally think that the A4 is probably slower than a Snapdragon however any device running the A4 will feel faster then any device running the Snapdragon because of the OS and software its running.
@dxdragon
No the Celeron can run Windows XP or 7 fine, you are thinking of older Celerons, the Celeron in question is a good bit faster than an Atom it just doesn't have very many power saving features, the A4 is a glorified ARM chip nice for phones but it doesn't have anything like the horsepower for desktop class applications, which is why the iPad runs iPhone apps and not OS X apps.
@dxdragon It's sad that there are still Engadget viewers like you who equals a Penryn based Celeron with the Celerons of the early 2000s. Get your facts straight before comment.
@Gonzie
If you are going to put Windows 7 on a tablet, doesn't a ULV Celeron seem like the best choice? It is faster than an atom, and way faster than a snapdragon / A4 chip. Windows 7 runs acceptably on an Atom, so it should run quite well doing light tasks on a Celeron.
What would you suggest, a quad core pentium? The you would be saying "2 hour battery life? LMAO".
They can't put an A4 in there because it is too slow, and they can't run iPhone OS because.... well just because. Sure, they could have gone for Android or CE, but some people actually want full apps (e.g Office or fully blown Skype) on a tablet. Therefore the Celeron is a pretty logical choice. Why are you 'laughing your ass off' at a processor choice?
@thunderbollock Actually a Core 2 Solo SU3500 is the best choice, it's a little bit faster than the 743 at half the TDP (5W vs 10W).
@account5 I don't want an iPad and I'm a Win7 users but a Celeron is Laughable!
Looks like a scene from Frankenstein.. except the ending :-/
I love that headline, it made me laugh very hard this morning, that event seemed very interesting.
Any Hanvon fanboys out there?
@tusing
Yeah!!....Nah I'm only messing.
@tusing
You don't need fanboys when you have the anti-Apple brigade.
@tusing
yeah I see them in the coffee shops typin their manuscripts on them all the time. Oh, wait..
@tusing Have used their drawing and writing pads and their quality is pretty solid, the performance is not Wacom grade but pretty close. Saw a B10 demo unit in Shanghai a few weeks back and there is nothing special about it, comparable to a HP TC1100 slate. This event is more like what happened when Meizu announced the M8.
Its about time companies start to "try" to directly compete with Apple's offerings.. competition breeds innovation!
@mrtibbs
Well you got it right. TRY...
Thats all they doing here. Until I see the unit in my hands, and how it handles, I cant say its a TRUE competition.
All I know is that, this is only 3 freaking hours of battery life. Come on, my damn 2 yrs old laptop can do better than that.
And all for that price? Damn, I dont know about competition, but sure as hell sounds like a expensive piece of junk...
but you are right, they TRIED...
@cornelp
No actually, this isn't trying.
This is a net book with a capacitive touchscreen. This is a half assed piece of shit. There's a reason HP delayed the slate. These devices need a fundamentally TOUCH OS to succeed and be useful, not one designed for a mouse.
3.4h autonomy...hmmmm wait ... i think my 13 inch macbook holds on for 5 hour
so... less powerfull, less capabilities, les battery .... almost same size ...
yhea right
@DeviantmacG
youve just described every problem with slate PC's XD
its why the ipad sucks and why any other slate PC will do too
theyre fun gimmicks though :)
haha are they for real?
This will endear him to 96.5% of the Engadget commenters.
i think a 'LOL' is warranted here
@glenskey
I second that warrant.
@Sean Connery
The committee will now come to session. The item at hand is to vote on the 'LOL'. All those in favor of the 'LOL', vote +. All those opposed, vote -.
@glenskey More like 'WTF'
@RDM
I will see your 'WTF' and raise you a 'TTFN'
Celeron 1.3 Ghz + Windows 7 + Tablet form factor = Failure waiting to happen
@jeff181995 Stop pointing out the obvious compromises and real world engineering constraints. It's best to think these are solved with a magic wand (although hopefully not the same Magic wand they were using for the Courier and the HP Slate).