14 DAY TRIAL // There is already a sort of standard spec sheet for tablets, but ZiiLABS wants to get companies involved in this market segment to actually adopt a genuine reference design, hence the Jaguar3.
So far, smartphone and PC makers that joined the tablet race have been, for the most part, following their own counsel as far as design and performance are concerned.
Now that the tablet segment has more or less reached a point where there is a degree of uniformity and standardization, ZiiLABS wants to take things a little further.
Basically, the company developed the Jaguar3 slate device which is actually a reference tablet that it hopes will be adopted by OEMs (samples shipments will start next month, October 2011).
"The explosive tablet market is pure ruthless in every sense. Even a slight delay in a fast-track 6-month design cycle can be lethal. This is a whole new ballgame where only the fastest can survive," said Sim Wong Hoo, chairman and CEO of Creative Technology Ltd.
"Jaguar3 allows OEMs to enter this huge explosive market instantly and economically while reducing the risk significantly. It breaks new ground as the most powerful, the lightest, the slimmest, the most complete and lowest cost Android 3.2 tablet reference designs on the market, enabling OEMs to easily ride the wave of the next generation of Android computing."
Indeed, the newcomer runs the Android 3.2 operating system, otherwise known as Google Honeycomb OS.
Two Cortex-A9 processing cores lie at the heart of the item (the clock speed is 1.5 GHz), as part of the ZMS-20 SoC, which has 48 StemCell processing cores as well.
The screen of 10.1 inches has a resolution of 1,280 x 800 pixels, while the spec sheet also includes two webcams (sensor of up to 12 megapixels), two microphones and a battery (10-hour life), all inside a frame of 9.1mm thickness.