Check out this giant of a slate — ICD Vega 15.6”

Posted on 01 February 2010, Last updated on 01 February 2010 by

vega Fee-fi-fo-fum. ICD announced that it was working on several Android slates back in November with screen sizes of 7, 11, or up to 15.6 inches. The Vega is the name of their largest 15.6 inch model and we’ve actually seen this slate in photos and on video before, but it never really hit me how enormous this device was until I saw someone holding it. Luckily Slashgear has made that possible and posted a vid a few weeks back of someone using the device. Check it out:

This may very well be the largest touchscreen Android device in existence. It’s pretty cool that it can handle HD video and has the resolution to actually watch it at HD quality (720p anyway), but honestly this thing is so big that I sort of fail to see how it would be useful. It’s not pocketable, and you won’t be able to input text efficiently on it. I’m seeing ICD phasing this size out pretty quickly and sticking with their smaller devices like the ICD Ultra [Portal page].

[Slashgear] via [Netbook News]

3 Comments For This Post

  1. T-rec says:

    its probably meant too be mounted & used as a terminal

  2. aludal says:

    I’m a part-time artist (http://fineoils.blogspot.com), and I would love to have a multitouch sketch tool like this, instead of outdated and overpriced Cintiq. Mind you, I use only one hand to draw, but first, I can use many fingers on it, lol, or fork shaped stylus. And second, I could very well use my left hand finger sliding on colour disk and changing the colour and other attributes to the line I’m drawing with my right hand. In other words, if it’s below $500 I’m sold.

  3. Alex says:

    I agree that likely it is intended to be left on cofee table or mounted on a wall as a smart photo frame/video player, perhaps and a iHome control center/entertainment controller.

    In regards to artists use, just try the difference between proper active digitizer and any touch screen. Later is intended only to touch, not draw, drawing there is painfull and horrible experience, even to make handwritten notes, not to mention paintwork.

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