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

[HEXUS]

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

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[hermano pequeño]

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

[aidanjt]

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.

[mikerr]

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

[Hicks12]

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 . I normally praise LG for its efforts but this just seems a bit.... late or lacking effort. Oh well.

[scaryjim]

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"