You might recall this Android tablet; it showed up at the FCC a couple months back.
Today marks the official launch of the Viewbook 730. This tablet has a 7″ (800×480) screen, and it’s running Android v2.2 on 1GHz Cortex A8 CPU. It has Wifi/Bluetooth, 8GB Flash storage, a microSD card slot, a mini HDMI port, and a VGA webcam.
Viewsonic is boasting about its not-taking features:
With its RiteTouch technology, the ViewBook 730’s high-resolution 800×480 LED backlit screen serves as a great tool for pen writing. Whether taking notes in the classroom, highlighting excerpts within a novel or textbook, or working on art projects with the pre-installed Sketcher® app, the included stylus and RiteTouch make it easy to write directly on the screen of the device, swipe across content and scroll through emails.
Curiously enough, it’s also going to ship with the Amazon Appstore. If I were Google, I would be worried.
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Why? It is shipping with the full suite of Google services, too. If the documents released in the Skyhook case are still accurate, that means Google has explicitly concluded they don’t have a problem with it.
Nor should they. The Amazon Appstore and all of Amazon’s other services were just a download away to begin with. Packaging things this way is a convenience, not a game-changer. As long as Google’s services are compelling enough on their own, Google has nothing to worry about.
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