Sprint has announced its first Android tablet with stylus support in the HTC EVO 4G Android tablet. The tablet features a 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 7 inch 1024×600 capacitive display, 1.3 megapixel front facing camera for video calls, Android 2.2 with a future update to Honeycomb planned, 32GB internal memory with microSDHC slot, 5.0 megapixel camera with HD video capture and WiMax radio. Pricing will be revealed closer to the tablets launch this summer.
The key feature included with the EVO View will be support for a new input method developed by HTC which the company calls Scribe. Scribe is an optional stylus with support for real-time voice recording and handwriting recognition, with the popular Evernote note-taking application being the first application to support the new input method.
No GSM voice communication capability? Why not?
Most likely because Sprint isn’t a GSM carrier.
And because this is a tablet, not a phone.
This will be one of the weaker tablets on the market when it’s released. They should have put in a dual core Tegra 2, and launched it with Gingerbread.
When this launches, the more powerful Xoom will be out, the Galaxy Tab 2 will be out (thinner than the iPad too), and the Blackberry Playbook will be out (rumored to run Android apps). Not to mention the HP Touchpad, and the slew of tablets that were announced at CES this year.
HTC missed the boat with this one. If you are going to release a tablet in this day and age, it better either be cheap or be powerful.
It’s designed to be more affordable, think $99 with contract affordable at some point. This is not designed to be the ultimate tablet, this is designed to be the 4G tablet that anyone who can afford the service… can afford to get.