On Friday, our friends at Yixin Industry International Group (Shenzhen, China) emailed us with news on a new tablet computer. I guess it won’t be a surprise if I report that their MID YX-7100 product is a 7” iPad clone powered by a Rockchip 2808 processor and running Android 2.1.
I was curious. I took a look at the Yixin website, and this consumer-oriented electronics company has good marketing instincts—better than some well known US laptop makers. I’m impressed with their line of liquid USB flash drives, especially the beer models.
I studied the YX-7100 specs a little more closely, and discovered they’re offering the YX-7100 in white and pink, in addition to basic black. Nice touch!
The Rockchip 2808 is a dual-core 600-MHz CPU-GPU that’s made in China and based on an ARM design. It’s also the brains behind many of the new low-cost tablet devices, including the Archos product line.
There are lots of demo videos on YouTube proving the Rockchip processors have the “chops” to effortlessly handle the Avatar movie.
Avatar, by the way, seems to have become the benchmark for tablet video capabilities—maybe a video engineer will formalize an appropriate metric for this test?
Yixin’s liquid USB: flash drive with marketing flare
I have been writing recently that the Android smartphones I’ve been trying —primarily the Samsung, but others as well—are scarily good. It’s only a matter of time before a combination of ARM chips, Android, and solid designs will start tearing consumers away from iPhone’s gravitational field.
I think the same will eventually happen with tablets. Yes, Android 2.2 is not tablet ready, and Yixin’s 7” model is still running 2.1
But … for those seeking (me and many others) an inexpensive, capable tablet for email, e-books, and some useful apps, Yixin’s tablet may just fit the bill.
I’m hoping to get a Yixin demo model soon.
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- Seven-inch Android tablet starts at $130 (linuxfordevices.com)
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- Video Playback on Android Tablet with Rockchip 2808 DSP (youtube.com)
