News - LG launches a tablet, but it’s not what we were expecting

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An Atom/Windows tablet has been launched by LG in Korea – how retro.

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Is there some kind of USP or have they actually gone mad?

Has Apple redefined the Tablet, really? People keep saying it, but all the impressions I get is that it's (limited) success has been mostly refrained to living a meagre life as a big iPod Touch used for browsing the internet when at home.

Not really redefined it - caused a resurgence in t he market maybe.

it because anything Apple is presumed "Cool", it is an oversized ipod touch... you can clearly see this as the PCB and hardware is the same, all thats changed is a bigger screen and a bigger battery to take up the space.

I will admit that Apple has done well to be able to rip off so many people though, having 1 product which is slightly different, i touch/phone/pad and yet a lot of people buy more than one!. My mate has the ipod touch and is getting an iphone next week... like, why?

Nothing new but having a new slick interface is what makes this more appealing to the public than say an XP tablet and even the windows 7 tablets, that needs to change... maybe we will see a windows phone 7 tablet?.


Sorry to go off topic a bit :P. I normally praise LG for its efforts but this just seems a bit.... late or lacking effort. Oh well.

Why shudder at a stylus? Why has the world suddenly turned against handwriting recognition? I imagine a resistive touch screen + stylus will work rather nicely with Windows 7 (assuming they include an updated version of Journal as standard...!). Three big questions really: screen size / res, weight, and battery life. If it can get those right there's no reason it can't be a good business tablet.

he said, with his "I love Windows Tablets hat on" ;)