At a time when ARM and Android are dominating the mobile computing world, Intel’s only just commencing to meet up with some green robot-friendly prototypes, like these Oak Trail-based 10-inch tablets at Computex 2011. Ranging from the left we have got the Intel Green Ridge, Foxconn F150, Quanta QXZI, an unnamed Compal device, Intel Marco Polo 2, and Intel Carrot. Sadly, Intel wouldn’t give the names of the ODMs behind its reference tablets, so your guess is simply pretty much as good as ours.
Apart from the Gingerbread-powered Foxconn slate, these were all running on Honeycomb 3.0.1 OS — well, we are saying running, but just barely. As you will see in our hands-on video after the break, lots of the devices were struggling to take care of with the launcher animation, and understand that, Intel wasn’t partial to letting us test video playback at them. We also noticed that Android Market was missing on the prototypes, but Intel assured us that it will be available at the final products, and that current Android apps are already supported by Oak Trail. When it comes to build quality it left much to be desired, though that’s forgivable at a trade extravaganza; it is the software that we’re concerned about. From what we have seen here at Computex, Android on Oak Trail is much from ready, so it will be interesting to peer if Acer can actually pull off a July launch for its rumored Oak Trail Honeycomb tablet.
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