Android has now officially become the most popular and most used mobile operating system. It’s spread across a variety of devices in different manufactures and price ranges. One common thing about Android Smartphone is they have relatively bigger screens. Sometimes manufactures build larger screen to deliver unique user experience. Now it has been taken to the next step with even bigger Android Screen Size. The device going beyond the boundary is ViewSonic VCD22.
The main hook in this device is its massive screen. It’s having 22 inch display. You can’t call it a tablet and not even a PC. It’s a different category of devices and ViewSonic call it ‘All-in-one’ PC. Let’s take a closer look in to this device specification.
Device Specification
Processor and Storage
Device powered with 1GHz Dual Core Cortex A9 processor running on TI OMAP 4428 chipset. RAM is 1 GB and there are no official records of internal storage. It’s coming with SD card slot, but it will act more as a card reader than an expandable storage port.
Operating System
This comes with Android 4.0 ICS. However they must have done some serious alteration to OS to work with its massive screen. Other than that other android tablet customization also will be there and you will notice them in the first look, especially in soft buttons.
Display
This is the magic here. ViewSonic VCD 22 comes with 22” LCD display with resolution 1920 X 1080 which will give you 100 ppi pixel density. This is ideal configuration for desktop monitor and will work great with this All-in-One computer as well.
Connectivity and Interfaces
When it comes to connectivity this is having Ethernet, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Using them you can access internet, pair this device with another support device and connect an external multimedia device.
There are 3 USB ports where you can connect any supported device, may be mouse and keyboard. In addition there is a HDMI port, SD card slot and 3.5 mm audio out.
Camera
There is a front facing 1.2 MP camera which will let you do video chatting. There won’t be a rear camera since this is not a portable device.
Wrapping Up
It’s a great idea to power up ‘All-in-One’ PC with Android. And yes, it will be a smart idea since Android can work great with minimum hardware resource than desktop OS and at the same time perform most of the common tasks.
You won’t be able to find a built-in battery in this device and you better have a UPS to power this up. Further, you will have to purchase a keyboard and mouse separately if you need them.
There can be various creative applications of this kind of devices. The main thing that comes to my mind is public information points. You can place these devices wherever necessary and let the public to access them and get any information they need. This will work great in tourist attractions. And you can use this to teach kids in schools as well as in home. Multimedia designers also will like this kind of device where they have touch controllers as well as keyboard and mouse. This also works great as a home multimedia system.
However, there will be very limited market for this ‘All-in-One’ computers including ViewSonic VCD22. Very few people out there will have this kind of specific requirement and most of them could be fulfilled by other tablets in market. So probably this won’t be a top selling device in the market.
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