New Olivetti Tablet: Gadgets that Keep in the Middle of the Road

 15 Mar 2011 - By Omar Mariño+
 omar@myddnetwork.com


While tablets have never been known for their computing power, it’s hard to see why more competitors haven’t tried to distance themselves from the middle-of-the-road pack that’s dominating consumer sales. Every new tablet you read about seems to have very similar specifications and there’s rarely anything to get excited about. Olivetti decided it would be a good idea to put out yet another okay tablet PC rather than shoot for something ingenious.

The company is not known for their PCs, in fact, they’re known for typewriters, of all things. So when you read that their new OliPad tablet “boasts” a 10 inch screen with 1024 X 600 resolution and an Android 2.2 OS you can forgive them for the mediocrity.

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True, the machine will be running NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 and have multiple USB and HDMI ports but the other specs (including the paltry 1.3 MP camera) are a bit uninspiring.

Olivetti is even jumping on the wagon and launching their own app store, calling it the Application Warehouse. Which, incidentally, may be where the goods are kept. Olivetti is targeting their apps specifically to business and government consumers so they may forgot all the iterations of Angry Birds in favor of apps that are actually useful—which would put their OliPad head and shoulders above 90% of the competition.

For more info, hit up the Olivetti website.






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