August 31, 2010 -
ViewSonic Europe introduced a new tablet, the
ViewPad 7 , a new product category for the company.
A closer look at the product will be possible at the
IFA exhibition, which starts in Berlin later this week.
ViewPad 7 is running the operating system Google Android 2.2 (
Froyo ), equipped with a capacitive touchscreen display with a diagonal of 7 ", which has a resolution of
800 x 480 pixels. Approximately the tablet will go on sale in October this year, the price is already known and it will be
$ 543 .
It is also known that the device will have the full functionality of a regular phone and has a slot for a full-sized SIM card.
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Main technical characteristics of the device:
Google Android 2.2 with Android Market support
600MHz ARM CPU
512MB of internal memory paired with 512 ROM
7 "capacitive touchscreen with multi-touch
Resolution 800 x 480 pixels
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G and also a GPS receiver.
Front Camera 0.3 MP (VGA) for video conferencing
Rear camera 3 megapixel
MicroSD memory card slot
Fully sized SIM card slot
Accelerometer
Ability to connect USB devices
Declared the ability to make calls from the device as with a regular phone, as well as work with
SMS ,
MMS and
VoIP telephony.
More information should be available next week, when journalists manage to touch the new tablet on the
IFA .
Also at
IFA will be presented the second tablet from
ViewSonic -
ViewPad 10 about which nothing is known yet, except that its screen diagonal is 10 "and it supports two operating systems at once -
Android and
Windows .