Viliv S10 Blade Is No Mythical Tablet PC

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The year has only just begun, but it’s starting to feel like the year of the tablet already. And I don’t mean mythical tablets, either. Viliv is already known for its UMPC devices, but the new S10 Blade is about to cut a swath through the Windows Tablet PC market. There’s no price yet, just the specs and some pics on Naver, courtesy of UMPCPortal.

We’re basically looking at a Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium convertible netbook with a high-resolution (1,366 x 768), 10.1″ multitouch display. There’s no mention of an active digitizer, so I’m unsure of the inking experience. However, the touch experience should be quite good if the right hardware and drivers are used. Storage comes in the form of SSD, and the standard connectivity options abound: 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR and optional integrated 3G. The 2.67-pound tablet PC only comes with 512 MB of memory, which raises an eyebrow. Hopefully, that can be changed before the product launch or can easily be expanded for performance reasons. Speaking of performance, the S10 Blade runs on one of two Intel Atom chipsets — the 1.6 GHz Z530 or the 2.0 GHz Z550. Viliv claims up to 10 hours of run-time or seven hours of video playback. If this device sees seven or eight hours of real-world usage, it could be a very compelling product — pending the price, of course.

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