It seems like every other day there’s a Chinese manufacturer releasing yet another Android powered tablet PC, and sadly there’s very little to differentiate one from the other. Today’s offering from the Far East though, is admittedly a pretty nice looking piece of kit and for the most part, it doesn’t have the low end specs that some of it’s counterparts have been lumbered with. Chinese tech brand Mastone have unveiled the Lifepad I859. Mastone demo’ed a prototype of the device, then called the PROWAVE, at MWC 2010 (see the video below – note the PROWAVE in the video was running Android 1.6, but Maston have stated that the I850 will be running 2.1).
It’s a pretty slick looking device with a 1GHz ARM Freescale CPU, 512MB RAM and 2GB of flash memory under the hood. It has a 7 inch 800 x 600 resistive (urk!) touchscreen, a 3G SIM slot, GPS, WiFI connectivity, a front facing webcam, microphone and mono (as best as we can tell) speaker. All of which adds up to a pretty respectable entry to the soon to be saturated Android tablet market.
We can expect to see the device appearing over the Summer, but no pricing has been announced as yet.
{Story via Lifepad, video from ARMdevices.net}