14 DAY TRIAL // ViewSonic, like so many other companies, has joined the tablet market, and it seems that it is actually doing well in terms of shipments, provided a certain report is to be believed of course.
Tablet PCs may have taken off only last year, but they have already begun to visibly affect the netbook market.
This happened even in spite of how notebook suppliers were quite certain, at least at first, that entry-level laptops would not be threatened.
Now that the physical keyboard has been shown to not be as relevant as some believed, many PC makers and consumer electronics suppliers have joined the fray.
ViewSonic is one that has been selling tablets for a while now, them featuring screen sizes of 10.1 inches and 7 inches.
The 10.1-inch models started shipping rather recently and are dubbed ViewPad 10, the hardware being superior to the of the 7, predictably enough.
Basically, the ViewPad 10 utilizes the NVIDIA Tegra 2 SoC (system on chip), which can do various things, like play multimedia in quality of up to 1,080 pixels.
It is based on the ARM architecture and can also be found in many other competing tablets as well.
The display itself is a 10-inch LED-backlit screen whose native resolution is of 1.024 x 600 pixels. Meanwhile, 16 GB of storage space are present, along with a 512 MB of RAM.
Considering that this product is fully ready to welcome the Android 3.0 operating system, also known as Google's upcoming Honeycomb, sales may end up favorable. Currently, it runs Android 2.2.
Nevertheless, the most recent report published by Digitimes is not so much concerned with this as it is with the ViewPad 7.
This product, a 7-inch slate, seems to be doing well, having actually reached the point where it ships in quantities of 55,000-60,000 per month. Strong European sales are the main reason behind this progress.