The Android WindPad will have a 10.1-inch touchscreen, as with its Windows 7 counterpart, together with one or more USB ports. MSI claims it will “target a different market than other tablet PCs” and offer usability benefits over the iOS-based iPad, something we can’t see Steve Jobs agreeing with. Engineering samples should be ready in December, in time for a launch at CES 2011 in January. As for the Windows 7 slate, the U100 might never make it to market at all. MSI says it will depend on “market status”; considering we’ve heard rumors in the past that tablet manufacturers have felt unable to say no to Microsoft and Intel over creating x86 Windows-based models, because of the two companies combined market strength, we wouldn’t be surprised if MSI axed the project altogether.
MSI WindPad U100 Win7 slate frozen MSI has become the latest company to hold off on Windows 7 tablet plans, freezing the launch of its WindPad U100 until sometime in mid-2011 at the earliest. According to DigiTimes, MSI has announced it will instead launch an Android 3.0 Gingerbread slate by the end of March 2011, with a sub-$500 price tag and HDMI connectivity.favor of Android 3.0 tablet for Q1 2011
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