Rumours that a quad-core HTC tablet PC called the HTC Quattro was in the works surfaced just a few days ago and they’ve gathered steam very fast, with Pocketnow reporting on the tablet, and outing an image of the device. The tablet device will be built on Nvidia’s recently announced Tegra 3 processor, with an impressive spec sheet to boot.
What it is
The HTC Quattro is reportedly a 10.1-inch tablet PC that has a display resolution of 1280 x 768, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of onboard storage and Bluetooth 4.0. Other notable features are a 2-megapixel rear-facing camera that is capable of shooting 720p HD video, as well as a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera.
All about the processor
Other than the rear-facing camera, the hardware specs are standard fare for most top-tier tablet PCs, but it’s in this HTC tablet’s underlying processor where all the interesting bits happen.
The Tegra 3 was officially announced a week ago. Calling it a big deal, we wrote: ‘The quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor will be the first quad-core ARM Cortex A9 CPU to hit the market. It has a 12-core GeForce GPU onboard, boasting 3x the graphical performance of the Tegra 2 – which was no slouch. Moreover, it will support stereoscopic 3D video and gaming, presumably. It also includes a new video engine that can handle high-quality 1080p HD video running at 40 Mbps.’ Pure power, basically.
Beyond specs
What will be interesting to see with the HTC Quattro is how successful it is relative to the performance of the HTC Flyer and also in the overall tablet PC market. So far sales trends in the tablet PC market indicate that ‘specs’ don’t matter as much as they used to in the heyday of the PC, and that the overall experience is what consumers are going for. How the HTC Quattro will differ from the competition when it ships early next year, Pocketnow reports, remains to be seen.
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