Also from the 699 price category, only this time, it's $699 USD, a gadget, which has only now started pre-orders in the U.S although it was seen for the first time at CES. A portable device that can be best described as a Tablet PC. Though it might slip between the papers you carry in your bag, as it is only one inch thick, this swiveling screen PC is quite expensive, especially if you take a close look at all the models that are starting to show up.

Viliv's S10 Blade is a newly made available member of that bunch and comes with features that are common to those of most similar products out there. It has its strengths, regarding the ten-hour battery life, for example, but somehow doesn't manage to convince.

Also in the above mentioned list of features, the 10.1-inch screen of the somewhat lighter 1.21 kg (2.67 lbs.) tablet has multitouch abilities. These abilities include three-finger navigating through the screen with easy gesture controls that the Windows 7 OS supports. It comes with its own stylus so that you can use it even if you gain some extra pounds and your fingers start to look like wieners.

Its maximum supported WXVGA screen resolution is 1,366 x 768 and will let you watch movies in the popular 16:9 format for about seven hours straight. I forgot to mention that the ten-hour autonomy is only achievable if you're reading books or browsing the web.

You might wonder how it can manage to hold on for that long, considering that it has the same Intel Atom processor like the rest of the portables out there. The answer is very simple, as Viliv's S10 Blade uses an SSD hard drive for storage with the maximum capacity of 64 GB. It even supports Wi-Fi, but has an integrated 3G modem as well.


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