The new LG Electronics Mobile G-Slate is a 4G tablet with an 8.9-inch touchscreen that runs on Honeycomb, the 3.0 version of the Android operating system (OS) created and optimized for tablets. Available by T-Mobile in the US, the G-Slate is powered by Atmel’s mXT1386 maXTouch™ solution and NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 1GHz processor. The 8.9-inch WXGA display gives G-Slate users an optimal touch experience including 10 simultaneous touches at one time. The new PC tablet comes with a 6,400 mAh battery, 5M pixel 3D camera and weighs only 620g.
Atmel maXTouch solutions offer industry-best multi-touch with unlimited touch capability; lowest power consumption; fastest response time; and the highest signal-to-noise ratio to detect the most sensitive touches with a finger nail, stylus and a user with gloves on his hands. These chipsets also reject unintended touches including grip and palm rejection to enable an easy-to-use, intuitive and seamless touch experience for the user. Atmel maXTouch chipsets enable enhanced gestures, faster response times and the highest touch performance for the best accuracy, linearity and repeatability.
“Since G-Slate PC tablet is LG Electronics Mobile’s first entry into the tablet market, we wanted to ensure we chose the best touch technology on the market today – Atmel maXTouch solutions,” said Simon Ji, Ph.D., principal research engineer of LG Electronics. “By choosing Atmel maXTouch solutions, our consumers can experience a superior touchscreen experience including better responsiveness, battery life and true multi-touch capability on our 8.9-inch G-Slate tablet.”
“We are excited our maXTouch solution will power the G-Slate tablet from LG Electronics Mobile,” said Jon Kiachian, senior director of touch marketing, Atmel Corporation. “The selection of Atmel maXTouch for LG Electronics Mobiles’ G-Slate is further testament that Atmel is a leading provider in the rapidly growing touch market for smartphones, tablets and other portable devices.”