14 DAY TRIAL // While it may look like the rate at which new products come out at CeBIT is a bit slow, the fact remains that announcement are still being made and devices demonstrated, as is the case with a certain Gigabyte tablet.
It would appear that, even though Mobile World Congress (MWC) was where most tablets showed up, there were still some left, those being now revealed at the CeBIT trade show in Hannover, Germany.
One of them seems to have been developed by Gigabyte and sticks to the same old hardware-software scheme that most models so far adopted.
It is known by the name of Gigabyte GN-TB100 and uses the now well known Tegra 2 platform as the base piece.
There is also 1 GB of RAM (random access memory) and a nice storage capacity of 32 GB, plus a high-quality LCD (liquid crystal display).
Said screen uses the IPS (in-plane switching) technology, has a diagonal of 10.1 inches and a native resolution of 1,280 x 800 pixels.
Needless to say, this means that any video played on it will be more enjoyable than it would be on a lesser screen, although Full HD media would still be wasted.
Fortunately, Gigabyte did not let this escape it, so it threw in an HDMI output, meaning that one will be able to stream videos to HDTVs.
Other than that, the outfit implemented a 5-megapixel webcam on the back, for video recording, plus a 1.3 megapixel camera on the front, for video calls.
Other specifications include Bluetooth, WiFi and, for the joy of those that want faster broadband access, 3G support. Availability is, currently, set for the month of July, 2011, although no prices were given.
In the meantime, the prototypes will keep running Android 2.2 until (if ever) the outfit decides to upgrade to Honeycomb.