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Samsung releases convertible tablet

Jacob Nthoiwa
By Jacob Nthoiwa, ITWeb journalist.
Johannesburg, 04 May 2011

Samsung releases convertible tablet

Silicon India.

In order to design this tablet, Samsung sought ideas from its handset business to imply the hinge technology in its Series 7 tablet.

This tablet has convertible features. When closed, the Series 7 depicts a slate tablet, but the display slides backwards and tilts up to become a netbook with a full-sized keyboard.

The 10.1-inch Samsung Series 7 consists of a slide-out qwerty keyboard and touch-pad, which would be similar to Dell Inspiron. The hardware includes a 1 366 x 768 resolution screen 2GB RAM, either a 32GB or 64GB solid state drive, 1.5GHz dual-core Atom Z670 Oak trail CPU, front and rear cameras and will run on Windows 7 Home Premium.

According to Laptop Computer Planet, Samsung originally announced their new Sliding PC 7 Series at CES 2011 as an ultra-portable 2.2lb convertible netbook.

At the time Samsung announced they would charge $699 for the hybrid PC.

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