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Can Cydle Release a $199 Chrome OS Tablet?

Posted on 19. Jan, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey in News

Ah yes, it’s Tuesday. And I have another morning video for you. This one is from Cydle, which is a Korean company that traditionally makes products for the GPS market for vehicles, and it is also part of a growing movement to make devices known as Mobile Internet Devices (MID). I don’t know how this manufacturer slipped through the plethora of coverage during CES, but they were showing off a ARM 7″ tablet that has a price point of $199 as well as a netbook that has potential for Chrome OS. Just don’t tell Google about it. Because I don’t think they know, since the prototype that was being shown off at CES was loaded with Windows XP although the representative did name-check Chrome OS:

This doesn’t look like a ARM netbook to me. Besides, let’s see something game-changing like that tablet running Chrome OS.

Anyone want to speculate exactly what would be the difference between a netbook and a mobile internet device? The lack of a keyboard in the former perhaps?

Tags: ARM, CES, Chrome OS, Cydle, Google, GPS, MID, tablet, Windows XP