Meanwhile, the fact that other Oak Trail tablets, such as Fujitsu’s Stylistic Q550, have already gone up for sale suggests that there’s no processor availability holding the Ocosmos tablet back. The company is yet to comment on the OSC1, which has a 5-inch 1024 x 600 display and runs Windows 7 despite resembling an oversized smartphone, though the expectation is that, if the OSC9 is imminent, the OSC1 should likely be close behind.

The final specs of the OSC9 will include WiFi – with WiMAX and 3G options – together with 2GB of DDR2 memory, a choice of 32GB or 64GB flash storage, and dual cameras, 5-megapixels on the back and 1.3-megapixels up front. It’ll also have a 6-axis gyroscope and run Windows 7 on a 1.5GHz processor. No word on pricing.

[via Pocketables]

In CaffeineMark 3, a test of Java performance, the Oak Trail prototype scored 1562, while Tegra 2 tablets like the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Iconia Tab A500 came in at 7194 and 7197 respectively. Quadrant, meanwhile, brought in a score of 1978, besting Android smartphones but falling short of the 2107 we found the Galaxy Tab 10.1 capable of.

Linpack results were even worse, with the Compal slate managing 9.4MFLOPS versus the 42.2MFLOPS of the Eee Pad Transformer. SunSpider, however, was a rare moment of sunlight: the browser speed test came in with a score of 1500ms (lower is better), neatly undercutting the 1888ms of the ASUS.

Of course, there’s more to everyday use than raw benchmarks, but Tweakers say the unit they were using felt sluggish in comparison to its ARM brethren, with apps slow to load and the whole slate getting surprisingly warm under use. Intel has said that it’s still optimizing its x86 Android port and so we’re expecting – and hoping – things will get better before the first Oak Trail based tablets using the Google platform hit the market.

Ports include two USB and a headphones socket, and inside is a 6-cell battery. The 10-inch 1024 x 600 screen gets a webcam on top of it, along with a dual-microphone array, and there’s ASUS’ usual chiclet keyboard.

Full specs are unclear at present, though the X101 is expected to weigh under 1kg and, according to NetbookNews (who shot the video below), come in red and gold as well as the white version in ASUS’ press shots. We’re guessing there’ll be a black model, too, for the less ostentatious among us. No word on pricing and availability; we’ll update as soon as we know more.

Update: ASUS says the Eee PC X101 will kick off from $199.

The ViewPad 7x also has twin cameras – the rear lens getting an LED flash as well – along with a 10-point multitouch display and DLNA support. It tips the scales at 380g, and has an interesting triangular pattern on its glossy rear panel. Ports include microUSB, and interestingly ViewSonic has given the slate touch-sensitive buttons despite Honeycomb not requiring them.

Meanwhile, the ViewSonic ViewPad 10Pro is the first tablet to use an Oak Trail processor, and like its predecessor, the ViewPad 10, can switch between Android or Windows 7 depending on what you want to use it for. Announced back in February, there’s 3G, WiFi and Bluetooth, a capacitive touchscreen, and a battery which ViewSonic reckon is good for up to 6hrs runtime.

No release date or pricing for either slate.

The company is said to be “evaluating” using MeeGo on future Oak Trail based models. Version 1.2 of the open-source OS was recently released, targeting not only tablets but notebooks, in-car entertainment systems and smartphones. However, with Nokia’s faded enthusiasm for the platform, Intel has been forced to look elsewhere for MeeGo partners: the chip company announced a quartet of v1.2 adopters at the MeeGo Conference yesterday, but none hold the same brand cachet of the Finns.

Intel is supposedly providing subsidies and enhanced technical support to Oak Trail users – believed to have snared Lenovo and ASUS as well as Acer – and that’s part of the reason the upcoming Acer tablet will be so affordable. The company has been working closely with Google to port Android to x86 processors, though initially it will be tablet-scale hardware rather than smartphones using the Intel chips. Medfield-based Android phones aren’t expected until 2012.

Connectivity includes WiFi b/g/n, an HDMI port, USB 2.0 and an SD card slot. Samsung has promised 3G-enabled versions, though it’s unclear what sort of premium they will command. The sliding slate also packs twin cameras, a 1.3-megapixel webcam up front for video calls, and a 3-megapixel camera on the back for photographs and video.

The whole thing weighs in at 2.2lbs and measures 10.65 x 7.1 x 0.84 inches, and has an MRSP of $699. No word on when it’s expected to ship, though Samsung had previously said sometime during Q2 2011 which could take us anywhere up to the end of June. Live photos in our hands-on with the tablet.

[via Carrypad and via NetbookNews]

Asked whether he thought Android tablets would end up outpacing Apple’s iPad – something analysts don’t expect to take place for several years – Dell was confident the Google platform would eventually dominate the market. “Not tomorrow. Not the next day.” he said, “But again, if you look at 18 months ago, Android phones were like, “What is that? And now there are more Android phones than iPhones. I don’t see any reason why the same won’t occur with Android tablets.”

The Dell Latitude ST has a 1366 x 768 display, 2GB of RAM and up to 128GB of storage. There are dual cameras – 3-megapixels and 1.3-megapixels – along with GPS, an accelerometer, 1080p output and an 8hr battery. Dell is also toting the “active pen support” which sounds a lot like the active digitizer on the ASUS Eee Slate EP121, only paired with longer battery life thanks to the power-sipping Intel CPU.

As for the Dell Streak Pro – previously codenamed Gallo and tipped for a Q2 release – it will have a 1280 x 800 display, a modular – presumably GSM or CDMA – data-only modem, twin cameras and microphones, and an “Enterprise application stack” along with Dell’s Stage 1.5 UI. The latter is presumably the sync-enabled update Dell recently told us was incoming. According to the document’s source, Dell is also considering both USB Host and USB Client support, along with an ethernet-equipped dock, both of which would be useful for the enterprise market.

“We are seeing very good design momentum with Oak Trail across multiple operating systems. Over the course of this year, Intel will have tablet platforms that run Windows, Android, and MeeGo” Paul Otellini, CEO, Intel

The exact identities of those vendors involved is still unconfirmed, though it’s worth noting that Intel revealed – and then pulled – a product page for an Atom Z670 based version of ASUS’ Eee Pad Slider earlier this week. Otellini says Intel “expect to be able to ramp those [Honeycomb-based] machines over the course of this year for a number of customers,” though will also be pushing ahead with Windows and MeeGo. The CEO claimed Intel would be showing off “a number of designs” at Computex 2011.

“In terms of phones, obviously we lost Nokia, which took a lot of the wind out of the sails for phones this year … We’ve redirected those resources onto a number of other major accounts, focusing on carriers who want their own devices, and also on handset manufacturers … They’re all based on Medfield, which I think is still the first 32 nanometer phone apps processor in the industry” Paul Otellini

As for x86-based phones, the timescales are less impressive. “I would be very disappointed if we didn’t see Intel-based phones for sale 12 months from now” Otellini admitted, going on to say that the company was “actively working with a large number of handset manufacturers and carriers around the world on Medfield-based designs.”

[via The Register]

According to the press page Intel published last week at the launch of the new Atom Z670 processor, the Eee Pad Slider is among the various tablets to use the Oak Trail chip. Intel yanked the page, but neither it nor ASUS has given any official comment as to whether the Slider’s inclusion was a mistake or a premature confirmation.

Whether a Z670 Slider would keep the Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS already shown on the Eee Pad, or be intended to allow ASUS to switch to Windows 7, remains to be seen. A Windows-based Slider would be better positioned to take on Samsung’s Sliding PC 7 at potentially a lower price.

Previous leaks had suggested that Intel would be offering the Z670 at $25 to OEMs agreeing to use MeeGo as their OS, while anybody wishing to opt for Windows 7 or another platform would have to pay more. Now, it seems, Windows 7 support will be present from the off, while MeeGo v1.2 and Android 2.3 Gingerbread/3.0 Honeycomb support will follow on at a later date.

The average price of a dual-core ARM Cortex A9 based processor, meanwhile, such as the NVIDIA Tegra 2, is around $20. The Oak Trail Z670 will be the most power-frugal of Intel’s Atom series.

Currently Intel has secured orders from Fujitsu, Toshiba and Samsung, for tablets like Samsung’s Sliding PC 7. However, Acer and ASUS have pushed ahead with Tegra 2 instead. Intel has supposedly cut prices for Oak Trail Atom chips to around $40, to match NVIDIA, with the promise of further discounting should manufacturers place large-volume orders.

The company is hoping to lure other brands into using the newest Atom chips, with Acer and ASUS described as “still undecided” about their chip strategy. While Oak Trail promises lower power use and more performance than previous-generation Atom processors, it still falls short of the longevity of ARM-based chipsets in mobile devices.

WallWizard showed off its new line of motorized wall mounts that have a cool iPhone app for control. The app allows you to control the mount from across the room using your iPhone. Angry Birds hit the PSP and PS3 consoles this week as a mini game. The game offers 63 levels and will land on other game consoles later in the year.

An interesting MID called the OCOSMOS OSC1 landed at CES. The tablet has an Intel Oak Trail processor inside along with a 5-inch touchscreen, a slide out keyboard and it runs Windows 7. I bet there are some of you out there that didn’t wake up on time last weekend thanks to the iPhone alarm bug. That bug was supposed to fix itself on January 3 and didn’t. We still don’t know exactly what caused the alarm issue to start with.

AMD made its cool Fusion APUs official this week. These little gems pack in support for DirectX 11, 1080p HD, and 10 hours of battery life. Angry Birds for Windows Phone 7 won’t launch for months apparently. The game is on most other mobile platforms, is very popular, and has even made its way to some game consoles this week.

The Garmin StreetPilot app for the iPhone landed this week. The app is on the App Store right now for $39.99. The Tesla Model S and BMW vehicles are getting NVIDIA Tegra inside their vehicle infotainment systems. The Tegra chip will run the gauges and the large 12.1-inch touchscreen in the Tesla Model S.

50 Cent is the latest rapper to get in on the branded headphone market, but his set is much cooler than others I have seen. Fity calls his headphones the Sleek by 50 Cent and they have carbon fiber in the design. Asus went official with the EeePad Slider at CES. The tablet runs Android and has a cool slide out keyboard and a 10.1-inch screen.

We laid eyes on the cool Toshiba 3D TV at CES that needs no glasses. This is the sort of TV all people looking to go 3D have been waiting for. Toshiba says the set isn’t ready for the market yet, and we agree, but the tech has some promise. Qualcomm purchased Athros this week for a massive $3.1 billion. the purchase will get Qualcomm into computing, networking, and consumer products in a big way and branch Qualcomm into some new categories.

We spent a bit of hands on time with the Notion Ink Adam at CES. We think the Adam is a very impressive Android tablet and its Eden UI is one of the coolest parts about the tablet. We also ran some benchmarks on the Adam at CES and some Flash testing. We loaded Quadrant Advanced on the Adam, it scored 1,836, and we point out that Froyo isn’t optimized for multithreading so real world performance will be different.

Samsung has unveiled a new Sliding PC 7 Series that looks interesting. The machine is a combination of a notebook and a mobile PC skirting the land between tablet and netbook. It runs Windows 7 and weighs in at 2.2 pounds with up to 64GB of storage, a 10.1-inch screen, and an Atom Z670 CPU at 1.66GHz. What appear to be parts for the Verizon iPhone have been spotted online. The parts could also be for the next iteration of the iPhone, but the Verizon version is more likely if these pics aren’t fake.

Motorola has unveiled the Atrix 4G smartphone at CES hailed as the most powerful smartphone in the world. The thing is very impressive sounding on paper and is the first smartphone to ship with real RAM inside. Apple retail workers learned this week that there were no vacation days coming the last three weeks of January. This usually happens when new gear is coming and the Verizon iPhone is what is expected.

The Apple Mac App Store launched this week with about 1000 apps to start with. The store ended up moving a huge number of apps in the first few days it was available proving the store is very popular. Verizon went official with the HTC ThunderBolt smartphone. The device is the first LTE smartphone in the country and has nice specs like Android 2.2.1, 8GB of storage, and a microSD card slot with a single core 1GHz CPU.

JVC unveiled a cool new 3D camcorder at CES that records 3D in full 1080p resolution. It is the first camcorder for consumers to do 1080p 3D and it will cost you with a retail price a touch under $2000. A Chinese auction site has 50,000 stolen iTunes accounts up for auction with 12 hours of access offered to the accounts for about 15 cents here in the US. The site refuses to pull the auction until it gets an official request from Apple.

We ran into Mike Lazaridis at an event at CES and he whipped out the BlackBerry PlayBook and showed the thing off. We liked the bright and clear screen along with the capacitive controls in the bezel; the thing is pretty darn cool. Steve Jobs took only a buck in salary from Apple in 2010 according to documents filed by Cupertino. The board at Apple also asked for a clear succession policy for Steve is he was unable to continue at CEO of Apple.

Reports are coming in that the iPhone on Verizon may launch on February 3. That makes me wonder if the phone is coming on February 3, why the blocked vacation days for the three weeks in January? The Wall Street Journal has reported that the Verizon iPhone is going to launch on January 11. That fits in with the days workers can’t take off at Apple stores and makes that February 3 date more questionable.

After all the gear was unveiled at CES, the item voted best in show was the Motorola Xoom tablet. I admit the thing looks really cool with its Tegra 2 processor, HDMI output, 10-inch screen, and LTE data access. I want one. Thanks for reading this week’s edition, see you next time!