Fujitsu Shows Windows 7-based Tablet
Fujitsu demoed its next-generation tablet at the Consumer Electronics Show. It came as no surprise, as the company has long been a player in highly mobile and slate-style products–especially ones aimed at corporate and vertical markets in previous pushes towards a tablet PC.
“There will be a lot of entries, and they’ll either fly or die,” Fujitsu’s product manager Paul Moore astutely notes.
For Fujitsu’s first tablet, due in the United States in the first half of 2011, the company is showing a 10-inch Windows slate design. The slate is running a 1280 by 800 resolution, 400 nit screen that uses N-trig’s multi-touch screen technology for doing finger and pen navigation on the same screen. (HP’s Slate, announced late fall 2010, already uses this technology, and N-trig has announced support for Android devices as well.) This technology alone makes the unnamed Fujitsu slate a good fit for the company’s target vertical markets, which include finance and healthcare.
