Ocosmos' compact Intel Oak Trail tablets - launched at CES 2011 earlier this year - the OSC9 and OSC1 could be on sale imminently, with the Korean company announcing pre-sale information for the larger OSC9 slate. According to OCOSMOS, pre-sales of the OSC9 - which has a 9-inch 1028 x 768 touchscreen and has a clever folio case with an integrated wireless keyboard remote - would begin in June.
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‘Oak Trail’ Stories
Ocosmos OSC9 pre-sale announced; OSC1 far behind?
Android Oak Trail tablet benchmarks underwhelm: Intel still has work to do
Intel came out fighting at Computex this week, with ambitious Atom plans to take on ARM in its low-power, long-battery Android stronghold. According to the latest, very early benchmarks, however, the chip company may still have some work to do. Tweakers managed to run some tests on a Compal prototype running Android Honeycomb on Intel's 1.5GHz Oak Trail dual-core, finding it to be underwhelming in comparison to existing Tegra 2 based slates.
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ASUS Eee PC X101 official: MeeGo ultraportable [Video]
ASUS' press launch today isn't just about the new PadFone: there's also the company's skinny new Eee PC X101 too. Running MeeGo or Windows 7 in a dual-boot environment, the X101 has a super-slim chassis and uses Intel's 1.5GHz Oak Trail Atom processor with GMA 600 graphics.
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ViewSonic ViewPad 7x and ViewPad 10Pro official
ViewSonic has officially launched the ViewPad 7x, the company’s 7-inch Android Honeycomb tablet leaked earlier this month, along with bringing its new dual-booting 10-inch slate, the ViewPad 10Pro. The ViewPad 7x packs NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 processor along with HSPA+, HDMI and a 1024 x 600 display, while the ViewPad 10Pro gets a 1.5GHz Intel Oak Trail Z670 processor running either Windows 7 Pro or Android 2.2.
Acer Honeycomb tablet on Intel Oak Trail due by July; MeeGo in wings
Acer's first Android 3.0 based tablet running on Intel's Oak Trail processors is expected to hit retail by July at the latest, going by the latest Taipei rumors, offering the promise of greater performance over existing ARM-based slates like the Iconia Tab A500 but maintaining comparable pricing. According to DigiTimes' sources, Compal is already mass-producing the anonymous tablet; meanwhile, Acer is reportedly considering adding another tablet platform to its portfolio.
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Samsung Sliding PC 7 TX100 tablet up for $649 pre-order
Samsung's Sliding PC 7 tablet, announced back at CES 2011 in January, has gone up for pre-order at Amazon, priced at at $649. The Windows 7 based TX100 - listed as the "Series 7 XE700Z0A-A01US Tablet PC" - has a 10.1-inch 1366 x 768 capacitive touchscreen and, in this particular SKU, a 1.5GHz Intel Atom Z670 Oak Trail processor paired with 2GB of DDR2 memory and a 32GB SSD.
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Dell Latitude ST and Streak Pro tablets detailed; CEO predicts Android will squash iPad
Details of two 10-inch Dell tablets, one based on Intel's Oak Trail and the other on NVIDIA's incoming Tegra T25, have emerged. According to the tablet roadmap, acquired by Android Central, the Dell Latitude ST is expected to arrive in October running Windows 7 on a 1.5GHz Oak Trail chip, while the Dell Streak Pro will run Android 3.0 Honeycomb on the Tegra T25 and land in June. The leak comes amid Dell CEO Michael Dell admitting that he "didn't completely" predict the "rapid rise of the tablet" and predicted that Android would squash Apple's iPad.
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Intel CEO confirms Honeycomb-on-x86 port; Medfield phones in next 12 months
Intel has confirmed that it has received the Android 3.0 Honeycomb code from Google, and that it is “actively” working on porting the tablet-centric platform to run on x86 chips like its Atom processors. Revealed during Intel’s glowing Q1 financial results call, president and CEO Paul Otellini said that the company was working with “first-tier notebook vendors” on Android tablets using Intel processors. Leaks back in March suggested Intel was readying as many as eight Android-on-x86 devices for demonstration at IDF Beijing this month.
Intel tips Atom Z670 ASUS Eee Pad Slider version
Of ASUS' recent tablet announcements, it's the Eee Pad Transformer that has caught most attention here at SlashGear; still, there's the Eee Pad Slider waiting in the wings as well. According to an Intel spec sheet - since pulled - spotted by Liliputing, however, the Slider may be coming in two forms: the Tegra 2 version we've already seen, and a model using Intel's Atom Oak Trail CPUs.
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Intel Atom Z670 three-times Tegra 2 pricing to OEMs?
Pricing for Intel's Atom Z670 processor has leaked, and it looks set to cost three times what NVIDIA is charging for its Tegra 2. According to Fudzilla, the 1.66GHz chip - which Intel expects to be used in tablets, such as Samsung's Sliding PC 7, and bring the fight to ARM - will be an eye-watering $75 to OEMs. In return, they'll get a 5W TDP chip with a single core, two threads and 512KB of cache.
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Acer & ASUS snub Oak Trail Atom despite Intel price cuts?
Acer and ASUS have reportedly snubbed Intel's efforts to push Oak Trail Atom processors for tablet PCs, despite rumored price cuts on the chips that bring them into line with what NVIDIA is asking for Tegra 2. According to DigiTimes' sources, manufacturers are reluctant to consider Oak Trail given it is out-performed by the second-gen Tegra chip, and itself due for replacement in September 2011 by Cedar Trail-M.
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SlashGear Week in Review- Week 2 2011
Welcome to the second edition of the Week in Review of 2011. This week was CES 2011 so we have tons of cool new gear to talk about. One of the coolest DIY projects I have ever seen is the Return of the Jedi lightsaber made by Bradley Lewis. He made the thing out of machined aluminum parts and it has a removable blade.
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