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LG launches a tablet, but it’s not what we were expecting

by Scott Bicheno on 22 November 2010, 12:39

Tags: LG Electronics (066570.KS)

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Old skool

Of course we don't expect Intel and Microsoft to be absent from the tablet market for long, but right now the form-factor du jour is all about mobile chips and mobile operating systems. So it's a bit surprising to see LG launch a tablet with yesteryear specs.

Netbooknews seems to have been the fist to spot the launch, in Korea, of the LG E-Note H1000B. This is a tablet, but it contains an Intel Atom Z530 chip and runs on Microsoft's Windows 7 starter edition. Many readers will remember that Wintel tablets - even keyboardless ones - we're available for years before Apple redefined the tablet. Who can forget the UMPC?

So there's a distinctly retro feel to this new LG tablet, launched amid a frenzy of Android responses to the iPad. Our Korean being on the rusty side, it's hard to ascertain what LG thinks will make this product a success when so many Wintel tablets before it have flopped, but other retro features include a stand and, shudder, a stylus. The netbooknews report has the price at $850, which just seems silly.

Maybe LG is just keeping Intel and Microsoft sweet until they get their tablet acts together. Intel will deliver lower-power platforms such as Moorestown and Oak Trail soon, while Microsoft is surely working on a tablet-optimised version of at least one of its operating systems. In the meantime it will be interesting to see if a) the E-Note H1000B makes it out of Korea, and b) anyone buys it.

 

 



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Is there some kind of USP or have they actually gone mad?
Has Apple redefined the Tablet, really? People keep saying it, but all the impressions I get is that it's (limited) success has been mostly refrained to living a meagre life as a big iPod Touch used for browsing the internet when at home.
Not really redefined it - caused a resurgence in t he market maybe.
it because anything Apple is presumed “Cool”, it is an oversized ipod touch… you can clearly see this as the PCB and hardware is the same, all thats changed is a bigger screen and a bigger battery to take up the space.

I will admit that Apple has done well to be able to rip off so many people though, having 1 product which is slightly different, i touch/phone/pad and yet a lot of people buy more than one!. My mate has the ipod touch and is getting an iphone next week… like, why?

Nothing new but having a new slick interface is what makes this more appealing to the public than say an XP tablet and even the windows 7 tablets, that needs to change… maybe we will see a windows phone 7 tablet?.


Sorry to go off topic a bit :P. I normally praise LG for its efforts but this just seems a bit…. late or lacking effort. Oh well.
Why shudder at a stylus? Why has the world suddenly turned against handwriting recognition? I imagine a resistive touch screen + stylus will work rather nicely with Windows 7 (assuming they include an updated version of Journal as standard…!). Three big questions really: screen size / res, weight, and battery life. If it can get those right there's no reason it can't be a good business tablet.

he said, with his “I love Windows Tablets hat on” ;)