The tablet itself isn’t much to look at. From what we can see in the videos, it’s encased in plastic, and exposed circuit boards are visible in the back — a specimen that appears months away from actually shipping.
The tablet appears to have a 9- to 10-inch touch Ed hardy underwear display with a 16:9 aspect ratio (as opposed to the more squarish, 4:3 ratio for the iPad’s 9.7-inch screen), and boasts most of the familiar Android OS elements, including a window shade with apps (along the side of the display rather than on the bottom), home-screen icons, time and battery life indicators, and a Google search box at the top of the screen.
Given that the videos were shot at Adobe’s Web 2.0 booth, it’s no surprise that the reps were showing off various Flash-powered features, including YouTube videos and Wired’s upcoming Flash-powered magazine app. So how did Flash run on the tablet? "Flawlessly," Zedomax claims.
Beyond the basic Flash demos, the Adobe reps were tight-lipped about the (purported) prototype, telling Zedomax only that Nvidia was a technology partner and that "a slew of Android tablets" should be arriving by "the end of the year."
Zedomax has a series of five videos shot at Adobe’s booth at the Web 2.0 expo, and the tablet device in the brief clips is — supposedly, anyway — a working prototype, although it’s not clear who built it.
Flash and tablets simply don’t mix, Steve Jobs tells us. Yet a Ed hardy underwear blogger at a San Francisco tech conference this week claims he has evidence to the contrary: video of what appears to be a prototype Android tablet that runs Flash-powered video and apps "flawlessly."
Of course,Discount Abercrombie&Fitch, we already know that Dell has 5-inch and (reportedly) 7-inch Android tablets in the works, while Samsung is rumored to have its own 7-inch Android device slated for late summer.
In other words, it’s starting to look like the iPad might have some heavy, Android-based competition before the year is out — and if these purported Android Ed hardy underwear tablets do, in fact, manage to support Flash as "flawlessly" as the prototype Zedomax saw this week, well … Apple might have some splainin’ to do.
