{"id":152351,"date":"2010-01-07T22:40:19","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T03:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5443299"},"modified":"2010-01-07T22:40:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T03:40:19","slug":"hands-on-with-compals-tegra-2-android-tablet-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/152351","title":{"rendered":"Hands On With Compal&#8217;s Tegra 2 Android Tablet [Android]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/500x_android2tegra.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/>No major companies are <em>quite<\/em> ready to bring a proper Android tablet to market, but they&#8217;re edging closer. When they do, they could do worse than turn out something like this 7-inch, Tegra 2 design from Compal.<\/p>\n<p>Under the hood is Nvidia&#8217;s newest Tegra, which guarantees snappy interface, video and graphics performance <em>in theory.<\/em> In practice, at least on this early device which can&#8217;t leverage the new graphics acceleration in Android 2.1, menu transitions are still a little slow, browser scrolling isn&#8217;t instant, and the responsiveness of the touch keyboard poor enough to make typing a genuine pain in the ass. But wait wait <em>wait<\/em>&mdash;that&#8217;s a software optimization issue, which can almost definitely be fixed. What about the concept?<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> gawkerGallery(5443297,4,''); <\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Archos 5 Android tablet, had its issues, from lack of 3G support to inability to play Flash content, both of which have been remedied here&mdash;this Compal has a SIM tray as well as Flash 10.1 support. A shipped product would be faster than the Archos, and the extra two inches of screen are just enough to make this feel like a <em>tablet<\/em>, not an oversized smartphone. And to be honest, I could get into this.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a sofa tablet, a toilet tablet, a Skype tablet, whatever&mdash;there&#8217;s a market for this, at the right price. The only serious issue now is that typing on the onscreen keyboard is almost impossible on a 7-inch screen, unless your thumbs are freakishly long. I have no idea how Google&mdash;or Apple, for that matter&mdash;could solve this problem. But someone might! 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