“Intel comes with StoryBook and tablets for emerging markets”

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As a follow-up on its Classmate PC project for netbooks is Intel willing to the use of tablets in emerging markets a push in the back. Intel would be under the name StoryBook, a reference platform for a tablet ready.

Intel would be using the tablet to focus on countries such as China and Brazil, where the need for new electronics, but not everyone relatively expensive products can pay. The StoryBook is reportedly a tablet with 10″screen and Intel’s own Medfield platform for efficient Atom soc’s. For education, the device must be cheap, but the price that Intel has in mind is not known. Would the tablet also in stores, where the price under the 299 dollar should remain. In the second half of 2012, the StoryBook come true. Intel worked on a referentietablet on the basis of Medfield with Android Honeycomb under the name of Red Ridge.

The tablet can come with different operating systems, be equipped, claims Digitimes, and the device would be made by the Chinese Malata and the Taiwanese Elitegroup Computer Systems, that also the Classmate PC. Intel would be the roll-out use of his experience with the Classmate PC project. Argentina might have recently 158.000 Classmate pcs for educational purposes and ordered at Intel and partner Lenovo. That netbooks would on a Atom N2600-soc and Windows 7 and for 300 to 400 dollars.