We’ve just had the first public hands on with the Viewpad 10 pro. This is the Oaktrail-based 10″ tablet from Viewsonic that should be hitting in Q2. The battery life claims are a good 8hrs, 2Gb, weight 800gm and there’s a 3g version too. The icing on the cake was that Android is virtualized on top of Windows 7. We think its a runtime similar to Myriads Dalvik bit it really could be true virtualization. If so, we love it. Video coming later.
So one has to boot Windows to access android?
Would love to see a company make another version of the HTC Shift.
Yes, you can look at it like that. Ot looks like its not true visualization. Just a runtime wrapper.
What does runtime wrapper mean?
So this means you get all of the disadvantages of android (limited os), and none of the benefits (great battery life due to allowing use of lmited hardware).
One of the selling points of the htc shift was that battery life was relatively great when it was operating in it mobile os mode, but was extremel short when you booted up the xpside ofthe house.