UK Company X2 Announces iTablet Device

February 5, 2010 By Dena Cassella

X2 has announced its iTablet tablet PC--and best part is, it runs Windows 7. Awkward.

Look out Steve Jobs, here comes trouble with a capital “T”—and a lowercase “i” in front of it. According to Digital Beat, UK manufacturer X2 Computing announced they have a new tablet PC device called the iTablet. X2 has been making tablets for a while and for several different reasons—business, military, personal. We haven’t found too many other US reports of this new tablet device, but with a name like iTablet—don’t go beating yourself up now Steve—it’s bound to be talked about in the States soon.

In fact, the Guardian UK basically reported that the only reason why this tablet device got any press today was because of its Apple-like name. “X2 wouldn’t normally get much in the way of press coverage because it’s one of the companies that has been quietly supplying tablet PCs to the industrial and commercial markets, where they have many uses in retail, healthcare, logistics etc,” says the Guardian UK.

According to reports, the X2 iTablet has a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor, 512MB to 2GB of memory, and a 10.2-inch XGA (1024 x 600 pixel) screen. The dimensions are 252 x 192m and the thickness runs from 28mm to 35mm. It weighs 1.18kg (2.6 pounds). There’s a choice of operating system: Windows 7, Windows XP Tablet Edition or Linux.

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slicerx at 4:43am 8th February 2010 Seriously unimaginative.
It is just a huge TABLET... at over 2 pounds, it is not something you want to walk around with. They just don't get it do they? Would love to see the 10 minutes of battery life. They are not re-thinking anything.
Ian Bell at 12:26pm 7th February 2010 I don't that matters to be honest. There have been a number of suits where the trademark owner lost because their trademark infringed on a similarity to another company's mark. Sad but true.
dang at 6:38pm 6th February 2010 I believe this company owns the trademark for iTablet, so Apple wouldn't be able to do anything.
Sam J. at 8:14pm 5th February 2010 Where do these companies come from, and who the hell funds them! iTablet is clearly a knock off and we all know they will likely not stay in business. And if they do grow, by some weird chance, then Apple will sue them back to the stone-age.