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ViewPad hits US as  ViewSonic today planned out the US launches
of its two tablets. The ViewPad 10 is both its most direct
competitor to the iPad and also one of the more unique designs.
It boots both Android 1.6 and Windows 7 and has netbook-like
hardware, including a 10-inch screen, a 1.66GHz Atom, 1GB of RAM
and 16GB of flash storage.  The design carriers a 1.3-megapixel
webcam for video chat and a microSDHC card for storage, both of
which can be used in either OS. It ships the latest of the two
tablets on show, arriving in early 2011 for a relatively steep
$629.  Its ViewPad 7 is a more conventional design and scales
back significantly compared to most of its challengers,
including the Samsung Galaxy Tab. The Android 2.2 slate has a
seven-inch screen with the same 800x480 resolution as smaller
smartphones but is counting on having both back (three-
megapixel) and front (0.3-megap