Check out this 14mm-thin contender: built by
Pegatron and still at the prototype stage, the MasterPad looks to be the embodiment of
Steve Ballmer's incoming armada of desirable Windows 7 tablets. It sports an 11.6-inch IPS screen, which accommodates a 1,366 x 768 widescreen resolution, a 1.3 megapixel webcam plus mic,
two USB ports, a memory card reader, an accelerometer, mini-HDMI port, 3G connectivity, and 32GB or 64GB SSD options. All that hi-tech goodness is wrapped up in a magnesium and aluminum alloy body, weighing 990 grams. There are some less cutting edge specs, like the disappointing 2-cell battery that will only get you 5 hours of use and the
1.66GHz Atom N450 CPU -- but we're being promised 1080p video playback and Flash compatibility are ready to roll, and our machine translation hints at an additional HD video-processing chip. The early hands-on experience seems to have left the Israeli journos impressed, and their homeland can expect the MasterPad to arrive "in the coming months," with an Android version also in the works. See it on video after the break.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Image courtesy of Nitsan Saddan, Ynet
posted August 2nd 2010 6:07AM
I am sorry ... I would give up some battery life if my iPad could run some decent applications like office or even run office.live.com. I am sure someone will point out pages which is quite the crap app as you have no access to a file system rendering it useless.
Having access to Microsoft live sync and office is far more useful than anything I can do on my iPad ... The iPad is a toy designed for you to consume apple content. The world needs a unit that you can be productive with
It weighs over two pounds with a dink battery, and it gets "up to" five hours on a charge. Sorry, doesn't matter what OS they're running or how many USB ports it has, they blew it, right out of the gate.
My opinion on this clip is to thank whomever it was that posted it. The form factor is there but if MS does deliver a tablet, it should at least be using the OS they use with Windows phone 7. Maybe this is the plan but I don't know.
Started my first touch application for WIndows 7 last night and I have to say, if Microsoft gets a marketplace ready for PC's I am going to be really happy. I can't believe I am this excited about a programming framework but WPF 4 and touch are beautiful together!
Why the demand for tablets without wacom?
@Infinity
They are all clones.
Exo PC is a couple of Canadian guys in a garage somewhere, that are getting a Chinese clone tablet and rebranding it.
MasterPad is couple of Israli guys in a garage somewhere, that are getting a Chinese clone tablet and rebranding it.
I seriously doubt many people are going to choose some no name clone over established brands like ASUS/HP/Apple/Dell, etc for their tablet.
The small battery is my biggest disappointment.
Nice, I like it..
AND I agree that the iPad competitor has arrived here :)
This is the exact same as the EXOPC!
Why doesn't the exoPC get the spot up top. The masterpad is stealing exopc's would-be spot up top.
These are litterly the same specs as the exoPC, and the exact same design too! Look: http://www.exopc.com/en/exopc-slate.php (scroll down to the bottom, you can switch between it's UI layer and Windows 7 at any time)
IF it has a capativ ts i would buy it :D
how much is this?
@23542354 about 1100$
This is an ExoPC Slate shell with a better screen (maybe) but not the cool/functional Exo layer on top... Ill stay with the ExoPC.
This is just the ExoPC minus the UI layer.
This is just an ExoPC being released by the actual manufacturer without the awesome touch friendly UI that Exo are supplying to their customers.
http://kevindark.co.uk/ExoPC.aspx
I honestly don't see why I would want a tablet. I mean... watching movies or TV series? Does WMC even support touch input?
Woooo 1080p playback on a tablet. Suck it iPad.
My dream Windows 7 tablet:
Intel Atom N475 (1.83GHz), 1.8" 250GB HDD, 2GB DDR3 RAM, and a 9" 1280x800 16:10 display. Throw in 802.11n, an SD slot, Bluetooth, a front facing camera, a digital TV receiver, USB ports (2x Type-A and 1x Type-B Micro), and HDMI out all for $500-$1000 with a 5-10 hour battery life and this thing is a winner.
You fell for it too? It's a PR story made by some tablet reseller in Israel. It has nothing to do with Microsoft.
After searching and researching,
http://www.pioneercomputers.com.au/products/info.asp?c1=183&c2=185&id=3188
And you can find more of that kind.
Like other commenters said, it's a rebrand of WePad/WeTab (http://wetab.mobi/en).
Engadget, of all, should have noticed that.
Seriously, Engadget blew it on this story. The ExoPC has the exact same specs and yet they call this the first of its kind... Lovely.