We’ll be honest: a initial time you heard a association named Neofonie was creation a inscription, you figured someone was up to no great… but having only gifted a 11.6-inch MeeGo machine for ourselves during IDF 2010, however, you think it’s safe to contend we were dead wrong. The WeTab might not have pinch-to-zoom (yet) but we never longed for it once whilst browsing webpages and tiled apps upon the vast capacitive screen, using one of the most intuitive, unsentimental touchscreen interfaces we’ve ever had the pleasure to try. Get a short glimpse at a device in the gallery below, and find more after the break. Neofonie WeTab hands-on

If you’re not familiar with WeTab’s proof-of-concept demonstrations in Berlin from a few months back, sufficient it to say it’s running a tiled, widget-based Windows Phone 7-like UI, but that scrolls plumb and that lets you view entire webpages during the time. Practically none of the controls you’d wish to entrance are buried in menus, but rather than easily accessible underneath either thumb with descriptions in plain English. Starting with the elementary mirror for brightness and wireless connectivity, to basic multitasking controls, to a interactive scrolling thumbnails which concede you to effortlessly navigate by documents as well as your tiled desktop. We didn’t have a possibility to test out video playback on a Intel Atom N450 housed inside nor exam out the device’s dual full-size USB ports, though we’re happy to contend that browsing was rapid even upon a show floor, as well as the UI demonstrated none of a lag you might have seen in those aforementioned German videos. While 1366 x 768 is the poor resolution for today’s 15-inch laptops, it looked great upon a WeTab’s 11.6-inch screen. Vertical observation angles were rather worrisome, yet, as in its suspiciously identical compatriot the ExoPC, so most so which we had worry saying the touchscreen set of keys with the inscription flat on the back. Speaking of a practical keyboard, we found it as manageable as a rest of a unit, but a keys felt the bit as well small and closely spaced for full two-hand typing.

We’re afraid we still don’t know when you might see a WeTab retail stateside — yet it’s assumingly due in Germany after this month — though you similar to many all we’ve seen save a €449 (about $579) as well as €569 ($732) barriers to entrance, so we’ll definitely keep you posted if it does.

Via Engadget