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First Tablet Using Pixel Qi Screen On The Way

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the finally-one-with-the-right-price-point dept.

Azureflare writes "The first device using a Pixel Qi screen has been confirmed. It is produced by Notion Ink, and it appears they took a few design tips from Apple by sticking with a design that has tapered edges. This tablet should give Apple a run for their money, especially considering the recently confirmed rumor of an Apple tablet. 'The Notion Ink smartpad measures 6.3 x 9.8 x 0.6 inches and weighs 1.7lbs; as well as the tri-band (850/1900/2100) UMTS/HSDPA, WiFi b/g and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR it also squeezes in A-GPS, a digital compass, accelerometer and proximity, ambient light and water sensors. Connectivity includes USB, HDMI, a 3.5mm headphone jack and a microphone input, and there’s also a 3-megapixel auto-focus camera with video recording support. Onboard storage is either 16GB or 32GB of SSD, and there's an SD slot for augmenting that.'" Update: 12/25 21:44 GMT by SS : Removed erroneous reference to Nokia.

11 of 97 comments (clear)

  1. Nokia != Notion Ink by rxmd · · Score: 3, Informative

    Come on guys. Nokia != Notion Ink. It's in the title of the article. Is it that difficult to even look at the stuff you post?

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    As a state gets corrupt, its laws multiply; the most corrupt states have the most numerous laws. (Tacitus, Annales 3:27)
  2. 1.7 lbs is heavy by pmontra · · Score: 3, Informative

    For the metric world: 1.7 lbs are 0.77 kg. My netbook has about the same screen surface and for 0.33 more kg it comes with a keyboard and an OS I can use to work with. I acknowledge that the tablet form factor enables usages that are off-limits for my netbook but this tablet is way too heavy to be carried around as one does with a phone. That also prevents some usage patterns. I wonder if the 10" screen and the battery that powers it really weight so much. The other HW differences with my my old N70 phone (0.126 kg) are limited to the GPS, the compass, the accelerometer and the proximity, ambient light and water sensors. They look like tiny and light chips. The HDMI output should weight much. Any thoughts?

  3. Pixel Qi by Snowblindeye · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those of you who, like me, had never heard of Pixel Qi, its apparently a screen manufacturer thats the commercial offshoot of the OLPC project: Pixel Qi

    On a different note, I like that it has an SD slot. That way you can upgrade memory for close to the cost of the actual flash. Not holding my breath for Apples tablet to have one.

    1. Re:Pixel Qi by emj · · Score: 2, Insightful

      If you hate swap file, disable it and see how your computer works then.

      Been running without swap file since 2004, if I go to swap I'm doing something stupid anyways. There are good things with swap files, but your computer handles fine without it. Hell I even use ram disks to get better performance in some cases, since I use flash as "secondary memory" I sadly have to use ram disks.

      Think I'm going to start using the term Primary memory even though I thought it was a stupid term when I started using computers.

    2. Re:Pixel Qi by Dragonslicer · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Yeah it works if you know what you're doing, but usually swap file is there for a reason.

      It's there for when the operating system wants to have more data in memory than you have physical RAM. If you have 4 GB of RAM and never use more than 3 GB of it, the swap space will never get touched.

  4. Is it too late? by Lord+Byron+II · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can I get one in time for Christmas??

  5. Confirmed rumor by mybecq · · Score: 2, Insightful

    especially considering the recently confirmed rumor of an Apple tablet

    Confirmed by whom? The rumor mills that run on dry water?

  6. Can we stop? by moniker127 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not everything is a rip off of apple. The apple tablet isnt even out yet, or even seen by anyone yet, and they hint at this one knocking apple off. Apple does not own a patent on rounded edges!

    1. Re:Can we stop? by daveime · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Apple does not own a patent on rounded edges yet.

      FTFY

  7. Re:Hard to design feather light devices.. by emj · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah you could pack enough helium in the device it might make the device light.

  8. RDF by mdwh2 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The RDF grows evermore - even when Apple's product is non-existent, we still have fans claiming that companies are only doing things because Apple allegedly thought of it first!

    Wow, so existing products will give Apple's a non-existent product a run for their money! Brilliant! Come on, can we not have a single Slashdot story that doesn't give a free Slashvertisement to Apple - even when they don't have a product out? (Although I suppose we should be lucky we get a story about a non-Apple company at all, here on Appledot.)

    Sadly merely pointing this out will get me modded down - moderation simply doesn't work on Apple stories.