The firm previously refused to show off its Windows 8 ARM work at BUILD last year, keeping
its reference design tablet behind glass, running the dual - core 1 GHz OMAP4430.
According to rumors, the main motivating factor that prompted Google to develop the tablet is to create a core Android
reference design tablet, much like the Nexus smartphones.
Not exact matches
The Nook
Tablet looks almost exactly like the now $ 199 Nook Color (though the former is slightly thinner), but Lynch was quick to point out that while Barnes & Noble designed its tablet from scratch, Amazon started with the Research in Motion BlackBerry PlayBook as a reference d
Tablet looks almost exactly like the now $ 199 Nook Color (though the former is slightly thinner), but Lynch was quick to point out that while Barnes & Noble
designed its
tablet from scratch, Amazon started with the Research in Motion BlackBerry PlayBook as a reference d
tablet from scratch, Amazon started with the Research in Motion BlackBerry PlayBook as a
reference design.
In fact, the rear
design looks like on the Samsung Galaxy Tab A series of Android
tablets, with carved out sides on the middle back which gives your hands convenient
reference points when you hold it.
Intel had more big news besides the release of a Dell - branded
tablet: the technology giant also announced that they are working with Google to create the «Intel
Reference Design for Android,» intended to serve as a developer
tablet that will help manufacturers get their new products to market faster.
Bill Crean later explained to The Verge the reason the
tablet was kept away from anyone's reach is that «the
reference design had a single issue with touchscreen calibration that just barely didn't get fixed in time for the show.»
Chip maker Marvell has come up with a
tablet reference design powered by its own Armada 600 chip.
Are you trying to create fresh speculation, or are you too busy to do research and find out that the «Harmony» vs «Ventana» confusion applies to development boards, and not (non-existent)
tablet reference designs?
While that is baffling, one explanation can be that Google has taken the Nvidia chip as the
reference design for the upcoming Honeycomb, the first Android version
designed specifically for use in a
tablet PC like device.
In related news, Intel stated it has started the Intel
Reference Design for Android program, which in theory will allow
tablet OEMs to release new models quicker.
One way is that Google would be able to offer a co-branded device that would serve as a
reference design in a market with many versions of Android
tablets, Gold said.
«The market is all over the place on OS versions of Android and device hardware, so an online store with a Google - branded
tablet could give Google a chance to establish a
reference [
design] that other vendors would have to move toward to reduce fragmentation,» Gold said.
This
tablet is claimed the most powerful, the slimmest, the lightest, the most complete and lowest cost Android 3.2
tablet reference designs on the market.
It's a
reference design for testing, but it provides
tablet makes with a quick way to market.
Some of these would be Google co-branded, but that was a
reference to regular third - party devices that had met the terms for the branding and not part of an official Google -
designed tablet.
It seems that the
tablet is a «
reference design» - so it's not a finished product yet.
And Slaymaker
referenced other
tablet designs that will use OMAP 4.
Intel is showing off a
reference design of their upcoming Clover Trail platform in a 10 inch
tablet form fctor.
All three
tablets appear to be based on the same
reference design and all three can dual boot Windows 7 and Google Android.
And so, a screen that I think would be perfect for the Archos 70 Internet
Tablet, the Samsung Galaxy Tab and the Foxconn ARM11 Powered 7»
Tablet reference design, Pixel Qi is announcing the development of the 7» Pixel Qi screen size.
Favorite UnderDog: Malata You may remember Malata as the first
tablet to show off Backbreaker running on Nvidia's Tegra 2
tablet and they've continued to push boundaries with devices by bringing out Canoe Lake, Intel's
reference design that was shown at Computex 2010.
Intel's
reference design for the new Apollo Lake - based PC, which is actually a
tablet / 2 - in -1 hybrid system, comes with an 11.6 - inch 10 - point multi-touch display with a pixel resolution of 1,920 x 1,080.