BARCELONA — HTC’s take on tablets is a single of a many interesting at this year’s Mobile World Congress. The little seven-inch aluminum unibody package comes with the pressure-sensitive stylus. This competence be enough to set the Flyer detached in the increasingly crowded (and dull) “me too” Android inscription universe.

Inside a fat (415 gram) little box is the 1.5GHz single-core processor, 1GB RAM as well as 32GB storage. There is also an SD-slot to add some-more. Round back there’s the 5MP camera, as well as on the front row there’s a 1.3MP webcam. The screen gives a rather respectable 1024 x 600 resolution, as well as is your common multitouch panel. These have been still handmade prototypes, so the last version is expected to be lighter as well as thinner.

But we came for the coop, right? Because a capacitive panel doesn’t register pressure, a coop does a measuring instead, and passes the information wirelessly back to the inscription. This is clearly meant for handwriting approval (the inscription will ship with Evernote built in), though is additionally perfect for painting and drawing apps. Using a stylus with a capacitive screen is the good approach to draw, but a miss of pressure-controlled line density as well as other parameters means it’ll never opposition the correct graphics desk pad.

The Flyer will launch in the second half of a year, and will ship with Android 2.3 Gingerbread. What, no Honeycomb? That will come later, as an over-the-air ascent. Because HTC uses its own heavily tweaked Sense UI in the Android handsets, a interface is some-more matched to a tablet than which of, contend, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab. In actuality, time indispensable to tweak a mark new Honeycomb is a reason which the Flyer will boat without it.

As for cost, HTC isn’t observant. Keep it poor, yet, and this Kindle-sized, pocket-friendly could have the good artist’s sketchbook.