Kitchen-Friendly Droid

The Innovative Converged Devices (ICD) Vega has a Android 2.0 Eclair filling and will be at your celluar dealer in 2010.

With less than two weeks until Thanksgiving, Innovative Converged Devices ICD had captured my imagination with “Kitchen-Friendly Android Touch Device” headline on their press release on the Vega line tablet computers.

I was thinking of a cross between CP3O and that sexy Terminator preparing a Thanksgiving day turkey. Instead it is NVIDIA powered touch screen tablet computer running on an Android 2.o (Eclair) OS.

ICD will turn out 7-inch, 11-inch and 15-inch devices in the first half of 2010 and will be demonstrating the units at International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January. The 3G enabled gizmos will be available through Tier 1 vendors to give the Vega an iPhonish feel and a long term contract.

Attn. Michael Arrington:

Another Crunchpad sighting.

When you take the Crunchpad away from the Sasquatch and begin to sell the device, please don’t choose cell phone companies as your only distribution channel.

The Vega will interesting to see in the wild. I’m wanting to see reception the NVIDIA Tegra processor and Android 2 receive. In an Intel/Microsoft world performance and price will magnet to users on board.

Vega Specifications:

Android 2.0 Eclair
373mm x 254mm x 16mm
15.6″ Touchscreen
NVIDIA Tegra
512 DDR / 512 NAND
1.3 MP Web Cam
Micro SD
Bluetooth 2.1
Wireless 802.11 b/g
USB 2.0
2g/3g Data
Cellular
3.5mm Audio Jack
Magnetic Docking
Tablet/Dock Charging
Accelerometer
Ambient light sensor
Dual digital microphone

2010 will be the year the pad computers start finding a place as a digital lifestyle device. Netbooks have earned a spot into many lives, including mine, but there will some people who do not want to fiddle with a keyboard and simply just want to jester the direction they want the computer to take them. Pads will fit that market if the user interface is intuitive and allows natural movement for navigation. Devices sold for $300 or less without cellular subscriptions will be the economic stimulus electronic retailers have been praying for.