Texas Instruments' Blaze tablet coming to developers this August

Back in February when Texas Instruments announced its ARM-based OMAP 4 system-on-chip 'Blaze' dev platform, we sort of figured it might be tablet-bound. And, here it is -- Blaze is going to be a tablet! Not a shocker, but we're glad to hear it, of course, since the tablet wars are hotter than ever and we love a good fight. So, what do we know about TI's entry in the game? Hardware wise it's going to be a 10.4-inch XVGA touchscreen LCD with two USB ports. Internally, we hear it'll boast a 1GHz OMAP4430 cpu, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, WLAN, Bluetooth, GPS, and FM, plus external camera and pico projector modules. The tablet is not set for retail release, but for developers, but we're still pretty excited to see this one come out to play.

[cpd5c45 Posted Jun 25th 2010 4:38PM]

Just more vapor crapware.

[skillGlitch Posted Jun 25th 2010 4:42PM]

@cpd5c45 did you even read the article? it is for devs to get experience and testing on the new hardware, not a consumer device so of course it will be "vapor" to non devs.

[donlphi Posted Jun 25th 2010 4:42PM]

If this is priced right, I could see school district tech departments falling for this thing. When I see them wasting money on things like Active Boards, Active Slates, and similar "smoke in mirrors" and calling it education. Sorry for going off on a tangent.

[caprice Posted Jun 25th 2010 5:10PM]

oddly enough i trust Texas Instruments as a company more than most.

[TheJason Posted Jun 25th 2010 5:14PM]

"since the tablet wars are hotter than ever"

There is no war - currently there is one tablet that consumers can buy right now, (iPad) so until some of these other companies get off their ass and stop talking about producing a tablet and actually produce one, there is not going to be any war at all!

[MaTdg Posted Jun 26th 2010 8:54AM]

@TheJason There is defenitly more then one tablet on the market. They just don't get as much attention as the iPad. Not saying they are better or worse though.

[anotherworld Posted Jun 25th 2010 10:46PM]

So what OS is this blazing on?

[lifelongsteve Posted Jun 26th 2010 1:14PM]

I wish I could have had this when I was in school, my school had those big bulky TI calculators from the 70's.