The video below shows one of two designs for a 7” Oaktrail Tablet from ECS. Remember ECS design and manufacture devices for others so you might, if others are interested, see this reach the market under another brand. We hear that production is possible the May timeframe.

ECS are aiming for a sub 400gm weight and 6hrs of battery life and the following specifications…

More ECS Tablet images including the 10” and 7” designs in this gallery.

ECS were quite confident that they will be the first ODM to get an Oaktrail Tablet into production when they receive the final version of the production Oaktrail platform at the beginning of April. Of course this doesn’t mean that you’ll be able to go out and buy one then but they already have customers lined up in the US and in Russia. It could be in customers hands by the end of April.

We took a close look at the S10 production sample and saw some reasonable Windows performance scores and, after a 5 minute performance test, in-use battery life of about 5hrs. ECS tell us there’s more to come in the final version and are quoting 8hrs battery life.
As far as UI performance goes It wasn’t too fluid but again, final hardware and drivers are said to fix that. We’ll see!

At 700gm (the device we had was said to be 660gm) its very light so if it can reach 6hrs of usable battery life it’s a big step forward for ultra mobile PCs.

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I have a meeting with ECS tomorrow and will get some videos made of these Oaktrail-based 7” and 10” tablets but in the meantime I’ve uploaded a bunch of images. Both designs looks good. The 7” design is non working and the version I have in my hand is not the current industrial design as seem in the display cabinet images.

Full gallery here or click through from the images below.

ECS, an ODM who designs products for others to brand and market have interesting 10″ and 7″ Oaktrail products here among the dust on day 0 at CEBIT.

800gm for the 10 Tablet feels quite nice. Availability (for ECS customers) is planned for April. Here are some pics and specs. We’re back for some video-time tomorrow.

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Sascha from Netbooknews.de (and more recently the English version, Netbooknews.com) is down on the ground in Taipei checking out the latest and greatest from Computex. A quick video from Sascha shows us an upcoming laptop form-factor device running an interesting combination of hardware and software.

The ECS T800, as it is being called, is a device that looks much like the size and shape of the Sony Vaio P [Portal page]. It is using a Texas Instruments OMAP3 3440 CPU running at only 800MHz or optionally the OMAP3 3450 running at 1GHz. Afraid that 800MHz or 1GHz won’t be enough to power XP? Good thing the T800 runs Android. That’s right, the T800 is purportedly going to be running the Google Android operating system. Have a run down of the stats as listed at Computex:

• Android OS
• OMAP3 3440 (800MHz) or 3450 (1GHz)
• 8.1” LCD
• 512MB of RAM
• 2.5” HDD/SSD
• 2x USB 2.0
• 1x Card reader
• 2x Mini-PCIe slots reserved for WWAN (HSPDA & WiMAX)
• Integrated 0.3MP or 1.3MP camera
• 800 grams
• 246 x 121 x 20 mm

Take a look at a video of a mock-up of the device below. It seems to close incredibly flush and looks quite sleek. I doubt that the screen will be as glossy on the production model as we see on the mock-up in the video.

ECS, the people that made one of the first Origami UMPCs, the Tablet Kiosk i7209, will be bringing their netbook to the European market via a different route to many of the other big netbook brands. An article in PC World today describes how the ECS G10L will include a 3G module and that deals with carriers in Europe have already been made.

The high-end ‘G-series’ model includes a 6-cell battery, a 10.2" screen, Windows XP, an 80GB drive and will cost $500. It’s not clear if this is the cost to the reseller or the RRP. Either way, end-users are likely to be encouraged to buy a data contract which will subsidise the cost depending on the data plan. We say, expect sub 300 Euro prices and the possibility of subsidies taking the price down below 100 Euro.

ECS also said in the interview that a smaller-screened ‘J-Series’ version will also be produced.

More details and news links available on the G10L product page.

Sascha has been busy today. Here’s his video of the G10IL which I haven’t seen launch info for yet. It looks like it might have an Express/34 slot. Or is it a card reader slot?