{"id":4545,"date":"2010-01-08T03:40:19","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T03:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/hands-on-with-compals-tegra-2-android-tablet-android\/"},"modified":"2010-01-08T03:40:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T03:40:19","slug":"hands-on-with-compals-tegra-2-android-tablet-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/hands-on-with-compals-tegra-2-android-tablet-android.php","title":{"rendered":"Hands On With Compal’s Tegra 2 Android Tablet [Android]"},"content":{"rendered":"

No major companies are quite<\/em> ready to bring a proper Android tablet to market, but they're edging closer. When they do, they could do worse than turn out something like this 7-inch, Tegra 2 design from Compal.<\/p>

Under the hood is Nvidia's newest Tegra, which guarantees snappy interface, video and graphics performance in theory.<\/em> In practice, at least on this early device which can't leverage the new graphics acceleration in Android 2.1, menu transitions are still a little slow, browser scrolling isn't instant, and the responsiveness of the touch keyboard poor enough to make typing a genuine pain in the ass. But wait wait wait<\/em>—that's a software optimization issue, which can almost definitely be fixed. What about the concept?<\/p>

The Archos 5 Android tablet, had its issues, from lack of 3G support to inability to play Flash content, both of which have been remedied here—this Compal has a SIM tray as well as Flash 10.1 support. A shipped product would be faster than the Archos, and the extra two inches of screen are just enough to make this feel like a tablet<\/em>, not an oversized smartphone. And to be honest, I could get into this.<\/p>

It's a sofa tablet, a toilet tablet, a Skype tablet, whatever—there's a market for this, at the right price. The only serious issue now is that typing on the onscreen keyboard is almost impossible on a 7-inch screen, unless your thumbs are freakishly long. I have no idea how Google—or Apple, for that matter—could solve this problem. But someone might! And that would be great.<\/p>

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