There are a lot of companies out there that you’ve never heard of but who have an important role in deciding whether a device hits the market. The distributors are often, along with carriers, the first people to have hands-on with preliminary hardware builds. They make multi-million dollar decisions and can make or break a product. It’s a risky, but important behind-the-scenes business.
One UK distributor that has been bringing mobile computing solutions to retailers and large business customers in the education, government and corporate sectors is Think 4 IT solutions. I had a chat with them yesterday about a number of products they’ve got shortlisted and others that they are considering after their visit to CES. One of them is the Viliv X70 Slate and, being one of the more important ‘pro-mobility’ products at CES, one I was interested in hearing more about.
Working with prototypes it’s difficult to give a full opinion but it’s clear that the X70 Slate is looking good so far. Battery life looks to be impressive and Think4IT reported that they’ve had 6hrs of video playback from a full charge. Remember, it’s a 21wh battery we’re talking about here so that’s about 3.5watt drain in video playback, from a full PC. (Most desktops will draw that much in standby mode!)
The most interesting part of the conversation involved interest from a major customer and a wish to speed up the availability of the Windows tablet. They’re pushing for end of March. No word on price yet.
We intend to stay in touch with both Viliv and Think4 so stay tuned for the earliest news on the new ultra mobile PC at UMPCPortal.
We’ve got the X70 Slate in the product database here.
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There should also be a really way to also know how battery will be after one year or two Some years ago i bought a HP tablet it had a good battery life in first 6 month… only.
That is why removable batteries are a muston these types of devices. In a few years people may end up with a device that cant hold a suffucient charge to be of any serious use.
the battery in MP4 player was not interchangeable, iPad was also same non-interchangeable battery, thereupon they many ugly women take mere copycat to follow Apple an non-interchangeable battery to whitewash a thiner body.
the ugly women already forgot themselves name called Windows or Android. They also forgot themselves practicability as firstly, not sexily enticing like iPad.
iPad and MP4 are merely a kind of sexy toy, its sexy enticing is in firstly, but the ugly women they trying mere copycat will be too awkward.