Clothing designer Pierre Cardin has revealed its own Tablet the Pierre Cardin Tablet PC has just launched. Other than the nice faux-leather case it’s wrapped in, it looks a bit like the first, chunkier iteration of the iPad, though smaller, coming in at 7?. As it runs an older version of Google‘s Android operating system, we’re fairly certain it’s not soon to be adopted by the tech and gadget-hungry crowd, but for those to whom the Apple logo doesn’t carry enough status.
The Pierre Cardin tablet packs Samsung Electronics Corp.’s 1-GHz Cortex A8 processor behind a 7-inch touchscreen controlled by Google Inc.’s Android 2.2 software, complete with a front-facing 1.3-megapixel camera (yet with no rear-facing counterpart) and enough on-board storage to hold more than a few videos of runway shows.Still, at 4 gigabytes (GB) and only expandable to 16 GB, the hard drive pales in comparison to other 7-inch tablets such as the Xoom from Motorola Mobility Inc. or the BlackBerry PlayBook from Research In Motion Ltd. WiFi and cellular 3G connectivity is also available, though an undoubtedly fashionable dongle will need to be purchased separately to get online through mobile phone networks.Pierre Cardin tablet has a surprisingly affordable introductory price of £275 or about $450, putting it in line with the least expensive version of the iPad from Apple Inc.
