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Honestly, at this point I didn’t feel like there was much I didn’t already know about the WePad, the German iPad competitor with a kind of almost clever name. We already knew it would have an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 multitouch display and 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 CPU and run a custom version of Linux with a touch-friendly interface. And we knew it was based on a Taiwanese design.
But Neofonie, the company behind the WePad decided to throw a news conference today, and it turns out there were a few pleasant surprises:
•The tablet will support 1080p HD video playback thanks to an optional Broadcom Crystal HD video accelerator
•It will also have HDMI output
•Neofonie has tested Flash and Adobe AIR performance and seems pretty happy with it
•A 16GB, WiFi model will sell for 449 Euros ($610 US)
•A 32GB model with WiFi, 3G, GPS, and HD video playback will run 569 Euros ($773 US)
The tablet will be available for pre-order in Germany on April 27th and should be generally available starting this summer.
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