The WePad seemed to spring up out of nowhere a few weeks ago and although the initial renders looked nice there hasn’t been any actual hands-on video of the device going through its paces until now.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately the touchscreen is apparently one of the pieces of the puzzle that hasn’t been placed yet so the demo on the WePad hardware is done using a mouse plugged in via USB (the second device you see in the video is a different slate running the software so don’t infer too much from that.) Obviously the touch experience is critical so it is a bit of a downer that they don’t have it worked out yet; however, the fact that you have not just one, but two USB ports to circumvent that problem is a win.<\/p>\n
Specs wise the WePad is very much a slate netbook as it runs on a 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N450, integrated GMA 3150 graphics, a 1.3 MP webcam, an SD card reader, bluetooth, and the aforementioned USB ports. There are two models; one includes 16GB storage and WiFi and the other 32GB storage, WiFi, GPS, and 3G. The screen is definitely a highlight at 11.6″ and 1366×768 resolution it could certainly serve up a very nice browsing and multimedia experience.<\/p>\n
The current pricing on a straight Euros to U.S. dollars conversion is $608 for the 16GB wifi version and $770 for the 32GB wifi, GPS, and 3G version.<\/p>\n
Neofonie, the company behind the WePad, views it foremost as a news consumption device, but it offers a fully featured OS with a browser with full flash support and they intend to get approval for the Android Market as well as the Adobe Air Marketplace.<\/p>\n
Take a peak at the video and see what you think; if you like what you see hit the source link at the bottom of the post for a few more videos that they have posted to their YouTube channel.<\/p>\n