14 DAY TRIAL // It looks like the word elite is showing up as part of IT product names more and more often lately, this once having landed in the moniker for a certain ECS slate that the FCC appears to have tested.
The word 'elite ' has again reared its neck on the IT market, and it has nothing to do with the new mobile workstations that HP created.
In fact, the product that managed to get the web's attention is the ElitePad S10 tablet form ECS (Elitegroup Computer Systems).
Normally, hearing of a new tablet would lead one to wonder just what CPU or SOC was used in its making.
And ARM platform like Tegra 2 would be the first guess, while the software expected to be used is the Android OS.
Now, ECS broke the norm by preparing a slate that uses a new Intel mobile processor instead, one of the Oak Trail variety.
Specifically, the Atom Z670 CPU was used, whose clock speed is of 1.5 GHz and which we covered in detail here. This chip is backed up by 1 GB of RAM (random access memory).
The revelation was indirectly made by a filing submitted by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission).
Other things revealed by that source are an SD card slot, the existence of a SanDisk SSD (solid state drive), Bluetooth 3.0, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi and a 1.3 megapixel webcam, plus USB 2.0, an HDMI output and optional 3G.
These all are packed inside a 10-inch package, along with a display whose native resolution is of 1,366 x 768 pixels.
Needless to say, there is no way of knowing when and for what price the ECS ElitePad S10 will start selling, such is the nature of FCC filings, although it is possible for availability to arrive within a month.