Vizio VTAB1008 tablet: symbiosis of man and machine
There’s just something about the 8-in. Vizio VTAB1008 Android tablet: You take it out of the box, turn it on, start using it, and immediately get attached to it.
Patrick Mannion, Director of Content -- EDN, January 19, 2012
There’s just something about the 8-in. Vizio VTAB1008 Android tablet:
You take it out of the box, turn it on, start using it, and immediately get
attached to it. I did, and so did my family, to the point that they’re asking
for a new one now that this one is shredded. Few designs generate that
natural symbiosis of user and system, but all designers know how hard it is to
achieve it. In the case of the Vizio, which is not a design house but instead a provider of generic,
reasonably priced, midrange consumer devices, it came about through close collaboration
between the application engineers at Marvell, whose 1-GHz, dual-core ARM Version 7 Armada
610 processor is at the heart of the device, and contract manufacturer Foxconn.|
For more on the Vizio, see the full teardown on the Design Cycle blog and click here for more teardowns. Join us for a full-tablet-teardown panel and wireless discussion at DesignCon 2012. |
The device fluidly performs the basics and adds an IR emitter, which, with a universal remote-control app, controls your entire home-entertainment system. It also features HDCP compliance, to allow streaming of secured HD content from Netflix, Hulu, or other sources to your TV, and a three-speaker system that allows multiaxis stereo sound using SRS TruMedia. You just know that its designers put some thought into it.
Talkback
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"Shredded"? Please explain...
vic plichota - 2012-1-2 12:35:24 PST -
The title is stupid-- there cannot be a symbiosis between man and machine. Think instead of a Crackberry-like addiction to and dependence on a graphics-rich, touchy-feely networked gadget: hardly a mutually-beneficial relationship. Maybe the editor meant "synergistic"? Get a dictionary!
Elmer Eff - 2012-24-1 14:01:02 PST
