14 DAY TRIAL // It would appear that quite a few companies plan to hitch a ride on the tablet bus, as a fair amount of announcements have been made over the past month alone, no doubt in anticipation of CES, 2011, and Onkyo has now joined this movement.
Since the Apple iPad was released, and despite the arguably mixed feelings it caused, the reality of the matter is that tablets have sold very well.
Slates are, in fact, even now growing in popularity, despite their relative scarcity, at least as far as on-sale model variety goes.
That said, the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show is already shaping up to become the stage for demonstrating a slew of tablets.
As a sort of prelude, a Japanese company known as Onkyo has officially revealed a certain product whose name is TA117.
The TA117 is a tablet that may turn out to be more content-oriented than focused on mobility, as it measures 10.1-inches, not 7 inches like some other devices so far unveiled.
Speaking of the display size, the LED-backlit LCD screen has a native resolution of 1,024 x 600 pixels.
At the heart of the configuration lies an NVIDIA Tegra 250 SoC (system-on-chip), which has a processor clock speed of 1 GHz.
That said, the slate also features 8 GB or 16 GB of built-in iNAND Flash storage, which can be expanded via the microSD card slot.
Other specifications include 512 MB or 1 GB of RAM, a 1.3 megapixel webcam, USB, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1.
Finally, the product runs the Android 2.2 operating system and will be sold in two versions whose prices, like the availability details, have, regrettably, not been disclosed.
One version has 8 GB of storage and 512 MB of RAM, while the stronger one has 16 GB of Flash and 1 GB of RAM.