HTC Flyer tablet hands-on

By on Feb 15, 2011 at 5:58 AM
mobile February 15, 2011

Yes, it’s just and eyes-on. HTC employees were the only ones allowed to handle and demo the newly minted, 7-inch Android tablet, so we couldn’t develop as much of an opinion about the device as we would have liked. For its inaugural tablet, the Taiwanese OEM decided to buck the dual-core craze and stick with a single-core, 1.5GHz chip. Watching HTC buzz around on the device seemed to indicate that the tablet’s engine is more than capable of keeping up with your demands. A differentiating factor for the Flyer is the fact that it ships with a stylus. We were shown a demo where tapping on the screen with the stylus immediately took a screen shot, from there you can use the pen to draw, annotate, and doodle on the captured image. We’re sure HTC will build more functionality into the stylus before launch and it was kind of fun to see a tablet go back to its roots. The device will be shipping in Q2 of 2011 globally. We’re off to get more goodies from MWC, hit the gallery up and let us know what you think!

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  • Anonymous

    Lame

    • http://twitter.com/slbailey2 slbailey2

      So true! This should be a pure Android 3.0 tablet with the HTC apps.

      • Namarrgon

        And in a few more months, perhaps it will be.

        For now, it looks like a very capable tablet with a potentially extremely useful stylus. HTC have come up with some nice applications for this already. I can see this being popular with graphics designers, for taking quick notes, or anything where a quick sketch (or careful drawing) is needed.

  • Anonymous

    Lo-resolution, small size and worst possible processor : low actual speed (old A8 conf) and highest voltage (i.e worst battery drain).

    FAIL, HTC. FAIL.

    • Anonymous

      Was thinking the same thing. Then I wondered if there is a big brother coming out in the latter half of the year. Where everything is bumped up. That might have some potential.

  • Anonymous

    whats the point of a 7 inch tab… if my phone is 4.3. they have to be 10 to be useful.

    • Bigmouth

      Portability is the advantage. A 7-inch tablet is basically the size of a Kindle.

  • StevenGlansburg

    Define worthless. HTC flyer.

  • Gloryhole

    This thing is an oversized palm pilot

  • Anonymous

    This is a perfect example of what is wrong with Android customization. I bet they can’t put honeycomb on the tablet because they haven’t fully tested and updated their Sense ui to work with it. Then out of some silly sense of pride or need to stay the course, they stick to their Sense UI instead of Android. Can’t imagine an informed person buying one of these tablets with an old version of Android installed. I’m sure they will get Honeycomb sooner or later, but I doubt that Sense is a good reason to wait.

  • FuriousYellow

    This looks very cool, but where are all the ports? Is everything going to be through that single port at the bottom and require a dongle? Like the idea of the stylus, but it looks too big to store in the device so that means carrying it separately.

  • Cl

    does this also work as a phone???

  • Bigmouth

    I’d prefer Honeycomb, but the stylus is intriguing. Is it just capacitive, or does this mean they’re using N-Trig Duosense?

  • zps

    what a horrible wreck of a fail. expected WAY more from HTC. sad. next.

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