Reviews: China Cheap and Hot VIA WM8650 Android 2.2 Tablet PC PB723GA

Aug. 8, 2011 - PRLog -- As microprocessors company, Taiwan VIA Technologies launched the VIA WM8505 a few years ago.Thanks to the rapid growth of tablet PC market, the chip called WM8505 shipments home and abroad are more than 400 million units,and have got positive reviews from China and worldwide users.

Earlier this year,VIA announced the new chip called WM8650. It's also a 65nm CPU. VIA uses the same as MediaTek turn-key mode. They provide completed hardware core board and software to tablet PC manufacturers in Shenzhen,China.

What the VIA has claimed is that the WM8650 has the ability to run on Android 2.2 and CE7.0, support Flash 10.1 and decode 720p videos. And the WM8650 is a chip that is based on ARM11 inner core with a overlock on 800MHz, though officially information is 600MHz.

VIA's WM8650 may just be the shot in the arm they need in the tablet/MID market, Compete to the Rockchip 2818 'flagship'. The WM8650 is supposed to rebound from that rather pronounced defeat, promising Android 2.1 and compete with the RK2818 / TCC8902. Where VIA may hope to compete is just the price, but that is speculation. Either way, the only CONFIRMED specs of the WM8650 is that it will be clocked at or around 600MHz again, and that it should do 720p, the key features with wm8650 tablet are as followings:

1) 800MHz CPU.

2) Android 2.2 OS with new fresh UI and interface.

3) Affable price, the cost is the lowwest in the tablet pc market.

4) To give out more heat than normal tablets when it is working

5) Supports AVI format up tp 720P video, does not support RMVB. (it is still being debugged)

6) Flash 10.1 playback.

7) Supports HTML5 video online

All in all,the WM8650 technology is the same as WM8505, but the frequency is higher, and the efficiency of Floating-Point calculation is 45% increase and power consumer is 20% lower than VIA VM8505. Most importantly, the manufacturing costs of the new VIA WM8650 android 2.2 tablet PC are very low, so we believe that android 2.2 OS tablet PC with CPU VIA WM8650 will be the most popular portable computing since the year 2011.

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