Skytone’s Alpha 680 tablet, Android interface gets underwhelming hands-on treatment
We’re still not sold on the $250 price tag for Skytone’s Android-powered Alpha 680, and these video hands-on of the tablet / netbook from netbooknews.de don’t help. While the apps shown off run smoothly — browser, Maps, Skype, Office, etc. — they also serve as painful reminders that multitasking’s just not gonna work when each app takes up the full screen and can only be opened one at a time. Not that we necessarily expected to do nine things at once with an ARM-based processor, but something tells us we’d be reaching for the Jaunty Jackalope before too long. See for yourself in the two-part video series after the break.
Continue reading Skytone’s Alpha 680 tablet, Android interface gets underwhelming hands-on treatment
Filed under: Laptops, Tablet PCs
Skytone’s Alpha 680 tablet, Android interface gets underwhelming hands-on treatment originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Related posts:
- Android-based Alpha 680 netbook spotted in the wild Still think an Android-based netbook is in your future?...
- Skytone debuts ARM-based, Android-powered netbook / tablet Well, after months of nothing but hacks and proof...
- Gigabyte T1028 netbook / tablet gets the hands-on treatment We've already seen Gigabyte's T1028 netbook / tablet up...
- Skytone’s Android-powered netbook to cost around $250 Guangzhou Skytone Transmission Technologies Company, which we will absolutely...
- Mtube II mixes an Android tablet with an XP netbook Been thinking about settling down with an XP netbook...
