While every man and his dog is waiting for their preordered iPad to arrive, some Germans went their own way and yesterday presented a Slate that appears to have, well, better features.
The Neofonie WePad has similar form and function as the wet dreams of our Crunchgear editors, but facts are that the German Android device has a bigger multitouch screen and a faster CPU than the iPad. Also it runs Flash, has USB ports, an inbuilt card reader and expandable memory. Additionally it allows complete multitasking and has a webcam. Beat that baby.
| WePad | iPad | |
| Display | 11.6-inch (1,366 x 768 pixels) | 9.7-inch (1,024 x 768 pixels) |
| Processor | 1,66 GHz Intel Atom N450 Pineview-M | 1,0 GHz Apple A4 |
| Memory | 16 GB NAND Flash (optional 32 GB internal + 32 GB SDcard) | 16 / 32 / 64 GB |
| Webcam | 1,3 Megapixel | None |
| Ports | 2 USB ports, card reader, audio out, SIM card slot, multi pin connector | Apple connector for camera or card reader as peripherals |
| Flash / Adobe AIR | Yes / Yes | No / No |
| App Store | WePad AppStore + Google Android Marketplace | iTunes App Store |
| Multitasking | Yes | Restricted, allowed only for Apple apps |
| Battery life | 6 hours | 10 hours |
| eBook format | All open standards | Proprietary Apple format from iBooks store |
| Wireless connect | Bluetooth 2.1, WiFi N, 3G optional | Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, WiFi N, 3G optional |
| Body | Magnesium-Aluminium | Aluminium |
| Size | 288 x 190 x 13 mm | 242.8 x 189.7 x 13,4 mm |
| Weight | 800 g (850 g with 3G) | 680 g |
The company from Berlin, although unknown, is no newcomer. The 12 years old Neofonie GmbH is a software company that also runs a search enginge called WeFind and sells an epublishing platform by the name of WeMagazine. It makes newspapers and magazines readable on computers and smartphones, and that’s also where they see the real business for their WePad tablet PC.
The WePad provides elderly users in the core target group of newspaper and magazine publishing houses, who generally have little to no experience with PCs with intuitive and fast access to the digital world of their children and grandchildren (Internet, e-mail, social media, etc.).For publishing houses, every reader gained with the WePad represents a direct and long-term customer relationship, the foundation for paid content, extensive customer knowledge and new forms of customer communication. While platforms like Apple iTunes and Amazon Kindle force publishing houses into the role of a simply a content supplier, the WePad allows publishing houses to retain access to and knowledge of their audience.
So the WePad doesn’t want to do away only with Apple’s iPad but also with the Amazon Kindle, reveals the latest factsheet. That’s a tall order. Publishing houses should acquire the device and brand it with their own labels to “move traditional print readers into the digital world in a targeted manner. Print brands can then become online brands, thus minimising the contact with established Internet players like Google Amazon and Apple.”
First commenters do already suspect an alliance between the WePad and Germany’s biggest publisher, Springer, which is also based in Berlin. The many screenshots with Springer’s Hamburger Abendblatt on the WePad would be a hint.
Springer is the strongest proponent of paid content in Europe. Since November, the companyblocks users with iPhones and Android devices from reading most of their newspapers’ websites with the phones’ browsers. Instead they shall buy the apps for newspapers like Europe’s biggest daily, BILD, or Springer’s B.Z. Maybe we just saw the birth of a German newspaper tablet. A working prototype was on show at the world’s largest computer expo, CeBIT, two weeks ago.
Microsoft’s Courier: First e-book reader by MS? | Specs Review
Who have heard about the Microsoft’s Courier? According to some discussions I have researched that this devices is like a notebook and it has two 7 inched multi-touched displays. It is very useful in writing, drawing with a stylus and basically searching the internet.
It is less than an inch thick and not much bigger than a 5×7 photo when it is closed. A lot of people call it “the late prototype”. Technologies nowadays are simply phenomenal. It is like having a pen and paper without wasting pages in your notebook or so. Our technology’s innovation is really fascinating. This will really help a lot of students and investorsall over the world.
The OS in this one is same with the Windows Mobile 7 series, the Zune HD and Microsoft Pink. It is built on NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 chipset. It is also call the infinite journal. This tablet has a 3 mega pixel camera with flash at the back of the tablet. It has 4x digital zoom. This was just recently released this March and plenty of people are waiting to know the price.
So far the feed backs of the public are very positive. Some even say that this is better than what apple has. In addition to that, the courier weighs only around 1 lbs. Of course, this device is Wi-Fi ready. The rumored price on this one is more or less than $500. They compared it a lot with the iPad even the pricing of the device. Base on the surveys and forums in the internet even Apple device addicts love the Microsoft Courier Tablet.
People are dying to have this device. It is an all in one device that we will really remember. Microsoft has convinced the public to love technology through this tablet.
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