US display giant ViewSonic has unveiled plans to shortly bring its 7-inch and 10-inch ViewPad tablet devices to Australia, inviting journalists to a launch event next week in Sydney.
(Credit: ViewSonic)
The tablets will be demonstrated by ViewSonic Australia country manager William Tse and are expected to be launched locally over the next few months. They were unveiled globally in early November.
The ViewPads are comparable in many ways to the current crop of tablets available in Australia - Apple's iPad, Dell's Streak and Samsung's Galaxy Tab, as well aslow-end devices from Telstra, and soon, Optus.
Like the Galaxy Tab, the 7-inch ViewPad comes with Android 2.2 installed. It features a 800x480 resolution screen and a 3-megapixel camera on the rear, with a 0.3-megapixel camera on the front for video calling.
The device comes with what ViewSonic is calling "3.5G" mobile broadband connectivity. It also supports the 802.11 b and g Wi-Fi protocols.
The 10-inch version of the ViewPad has at least one specification that gadget hounds will be unimpressed with - unlike the 7-inch model, it runs Android 1.6, a prior model of the operating system which was first released in September 2009.
Also unlike the ViewPad 7, the ViewPad 10 appears to be a pure Wi-Fi device, with no 3G connectivity.
However, unusually for an Android tablet, the device also dual-boots Windows 7 Home Premium. It comes with a 1.66GHz Intel Atom CPU, and 1GB of memory onboard, with a 16GB SSH hard disk and expandable micro SD slot. It has a 1024x600 LED backlit screen with capacitive multi-touch, and a 1.3 megapixel camera on the front.
ViewSonic has not released any Australian pricing or launch timing at this point.
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