The device was spotted making an appearance last week in Barcelona

Mar 6, 2014 14:58 GMT  ·  By
ECS TA80TA1 is a tablet reference design with Android and Bay Trail
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   ECS TA80TA1 is a tablet reference design with Android and Bay Trail

Before MWC 2014 started, I told you there was a possibility of seeing the first batch of Intel Bay-Trail-powered Android tablets appear in the wild, but unexpectedly they made a quiet appearance and did not raise a lot of fuss around them.

For example, Taiwanese manufacturer ECS was currently showing a reference design for one of the first Android tablets to capture the Intel Atom Bay Trail platform. So apparently, the ECS TA80TA1 is one of the pioneers of Intel's new low-powered chips (via Tech2).

The slate has an 8-inch screen with a pretty average resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels, but that’s not what really matters. What’s important is what we have under the hood, meaning a 1.83GHz Intel Atom Z3735E quad-core processor combined with 1GB of RAM and backed-up by 16GB of storage.

The slate runs Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, but I see no reason why the model couldn't be updated to Android 4.4 KitKat. More than that, the ECS TA80TA1 has a micro USB port, micro HDMI port and micro SD card slot.

ECS isn't actually going to sell this particular device, as the company functions as an OEM, so a third-party re-seller will take up the reference model and bring it to retail under a totally different name (there’s a possibility of Ramos doing so). When this happens, I’ll let you know.

The tablet might be sold by Ramos
The tablet might be sold by Ramos

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