Kinpad I600 With Dedicated AMD Graphics
The Kinpad I600 is one of the more interesting tablet devices we’ve seen of late. First and foremost, it’s an Android 2.2 7-inch tablet with a capacitive touchpanel and screen resolution of 1024×600. It’s powered by the Freescale iMX515 processor, a Cortex A8-based chip clocked at 800MHz. The Freescale processor is in itself impressive, but the I600 also has dedicated AMD graphics, the Z430, which is something we haven’t seen in Shenzhen / China market tablets yet. The Z430 features a unified pixel & vertex shader pipeline and is apparently based on the Xbox 360 Xenos GPU. Impressive indeed. What we think this dedicated graphics chip adds is 1080p video playback (as well as 3D graphics acceleration for various apps and games), as the iMX515 processor on its own is yet to prove itself capable of 720p video playback with current Android solutions, let alone 1080p. If it were to use the newer Freescale iMX535 processor, which is natively able to handle 1080p, then the Z430 graphics would only provide added 3D acceleration for various apps and games. Since this tablet uses the former, it is likely the Z430 plays a larger role in the handling of media than one might initially expect. This would represent an impressive effort in integration by the developers of the Kindpad. Interestingly enough, the Kindpad I600 also comes loaded with telephone functionality and 3G connectivity (to go along with standard WiFi), which may be attractive to some, but I don’t really see one using it as a phone. You’d look a bit wonky if you did. Specs listed after the break.
- Freescale iMX515 @ 800MHz
- AMD Z430 Graphics
- 512MB DDR2 RAM
- 8GB flash memory
- 7-inch capacitive touchscreen @ 1024×600
- Android 2.2 FroYo
- Telephone function
- 3G connectivity
- WiFi connectivity
- MicroSD for up to 32GB expansion
via netbooknews shanzai
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