News - Samsung creates a tablet with a QWERTY slider, calls it the PC 7 Series

[HEXUS]

Ever wished your iPad had a slide-out QWERTY keyboard? Samsung's PC 7 Series does.

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[00oceanic]

Looks very slick I wonder if they'll make models with differing keyboard colours?

[scaryjim]

Any word on pen or stylus input options? It's been a wonderful CES for tablets so far: it looks like this year might *actually* be the year of the tablet

[miniyazz]

Wowzers. Very nice.

[Andeh13]

That does look very smart!

[baius]

Finally...

I've been touting a design like this for ages! I hate the "swivel" on current tablet designs, because they introduce a SPOF.

I feel/felt that my HP TX2 was a step backwards from the HP TC1100 in terms of engineering robustness.

For a long time I've been asking (out loud and silently) why a tablet PC couldn't have a keyboard that tucks away. Much like the MDA Vario 3, which was itself an improvement on the XDA Exec, which - you guessed it - swivelled.

[baius]

Oh just one other thing, this is netbook-based rather than laptop-based.

I would love to see i5/i7 processors in this "form factor" rather than the incumbent Atom.

[perthcomputers]

Yeah... looks very much like this could actually FINALLY hit the spot!! Only taken a few years and several thousand variants of net book... :-/