Screen goes blue as item poses for the press shots

Sep 28, 2011 09:13 GMT  ·  By

Coming to add some life to the Wintel tablet market, Wortmann AG's Terra Pad 1080 has made it appearance, utilizing Intel's Oak Trail CPU and Microsoft's Windows 7 OS.

Cisco isn't the only company to make a less than common tablet, though Wortmann AG's device has even less in common with what is now the closest thing to a 'regular' media slate blueprint.

Cisco's Cius may be aimed at the enterprise market, but it does still have Android, albeit a somewhat outdated version.

Wortmann's newcomer is a full-fledged Wintel device, running on a combo of Intel's Atom Z670 CPU (Oak Trail) and the Windows 7 Professional 32bit operating system.

For those that do not know, the Z670 has a clock speed of 1.5 GHz.

The tablet, as some may have guessed based on what Wintel tablets usually look like, features a screen size of 10 inches.

The display itself has LED backlighting and a native resolution of 1,024 x 600 pixels, plus support for multi-touch input, as is mandatory for all such devices.

That said, the rest of the insides are arguably easy to guess, from the 2 GB of RAM (random access memory) to the GMA 600 Integrated graphics.

Furthermore, a solid state drive of 32 GB covers the storage side of the equation, leaving it to a microSD card to let one expand the capacity by means of a memory card.

Other specification include Bluetooth 3.0, a SIM card slot, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, HDMI (for streaming to a monitor or HDTV), a 1.3 megapixel webcam (on the front) and a pair of USB ports.

All of the above are packed inside a frame measuring 264 x 170 x 15 mm (the weight is 930 grams) and are kept running by a 52Whr battery.

The Terra Pad is described in detail on its product page and features a price of 749 Euro ($1,015.56, per exchange rates). Don't let the picture fool you though: that is not the blue screen of death people so dread.