Evolio - a Romanian telecom and GPS devices producer - has announced a new tablet which appears to be a main competitor for the iPad 2 on the local market. The most important technical specifications are:
-- DISPLAY: TFT capacitive, multi-touch screen, WXGA 1280 x 800 pixels, 9.7 inches.
-- CPU: nVidia Tegra 2 1 GHz dual-core processor.
-- MEMORY: 1 GB DDR2 RAM
-- STORAGE: 16 GB SSD flash for internal, microSD card slot up to 32GB.
-- CAMERA: Primary - front 1.3 MP.
-- CONNECTIVITY: 3G HSPA+ and/or Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1, USB 2.0, A-GPS, 3.5 mm headphone jack, LAN, HDMI.
-- SENSORS: Gyroscope, Accelerometer, Compass, Proximity.
-- BATTERY: unknown.
-- OS: Android Froyo 2.2 upgradable to Honeycomb 3.0, Adobe Flash.
-- APPLICATIONS: Google Apps, Social apps.
It`s clear that this has the latest hardware for Android Honeycomb so I do not understand why is not shipping with this OS version. The great thing about this tablet is the fact that has all connectivity options in the world including a LAN port - I have not seen this so far on a tablet.
As the Evolio mentions this should be an iPad 2 killer. I am not sure about that but I am proud that is made in Romania, is looking nice and has a good price - about 500 USD for the Wi-Fi version (iPad 2 in Romania is starting from about 700 USD) and about 600 with 3G included.
