HP's Multi-Touch Tablet Previewed, Arrives Later 2010 on Television Today -- A prototype of HP's rumored touchscreen tablet PC made a brief appearance at Steve Ballmer's keynote presentation at CES. The tablet, which has not yet been named, will run Windows 7 & hit the market later this year. Video after the jump.
Steve Ballmer didn't mention any specs or other information on the tablets, but we'll learn more details about the HP tablet later this year.
Microsoft demonstrated the HP tablet alongside tablets from Pegatron & Archos. Ballmer didn't spend much time demonstrating the HP tablet, & if you were expecting something groundbreaking, you may be disappointed. The HP tablet demonstrated during the keynote is not the Courier tablet. In lieu, it is a single-screen slate PC that runs Windows 7. That said, it does have multitouch, according to a video from HP:
From what they could glean from the keynote, the HP & Archos tablets look to be around 9.6 or 10 inches. Ballmer showed the HP tablet walking Amazon's Kindle for PC application, therefore using it as an e-book reader. Ballmer used it in both portrait mode (as an ebook reader) & landscape mode (to play a video); when he switched between the two,it automatically switched orientations, so it's an accelerometer built-in.
Personally I am not terribly impressed by what they saw about the tablet--I don't think mouse-driven interfaces like Windows (or Mac OS X) work well with touchscreens--but they likely didn't see the whole thing. It is likely, judging from past history & from HP's video, that HP will bundle something similar to its Touchsmart application package.
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Steve Ballmer didn't mention any specs or other information on the tablets, but we'll learn more details about the HP tablet later this year.
Microsoft demonstrated the HP tablet alongside tablets from Pegatron & Archos. Ballmer didn't spend much time demonstrating the HP tablet, & if you were expecting something groundbreaking, you may be disappointed. The HP tablet demonstrated during the keynote is not the Courier tablet. In lieu, it is a single-screen slate PC that runs Windows 7. That said, it does have multitouch, according to a video from HP:
From what they could glean from the keynote, the HP & Archos tablets look to be around 9.6 or 10 inches. Ballmer showed the HP tablet walking Amazon's Kindle for PC application, therefore using it as an e-book reader. Ballmer used it in both portrait mode (as an ebook reader) & landscape mode (to play a video); when he switched between the two,it automatically switched orientations, so it's an accelerometer built-in.
Personally I am not terribly impressed by what they saw about the tablet--I don't think mouse-driven interfaces like Windows (or Mac OS X) work well with touchscreens--but they likely didn't see the whole thing. It is likely, judging from past history & from HP's video, that HP will bundle something similar to its Touchsmart application package.
For more up-to-the-minute blogs, stories, photos, & video from the nation's largest consumer electronics show, check out PCWorld's complete coverage of CES 2010.
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