When an internal Motorola product roadmap was leaked to outsiders some time ago, it showed the (now popular) Motorola Droid as codenamed ‘Sholes’, and beyond that, an ambiguous ’Sholes Tablet’, which all assumed is a Droid tablet. Now, details have leaked on the ‘Sholes Tablet’, and it will come fully loaded with features.
A poster on a Taiwanese mobile phone discussion forum has linked pictures and a hands-on review of the mysterious Sholes Tablet. The poster is reporting that it won’t be a tablet in a tradition sense, but instead, a thinner Droid with no physical keyboard, similar to the iPhone.
The Droid Tablet is set to come equipped with a HDMI port, which according to the Tawianese message board, makes it the first smartphone to be equipped with such a port. The 8-megapixel camera on board the tablet will be able to record in 720p, explaining why you would want to have a HDMI-out port in the first place. For camera nerds, the Droid Tablet will feature a Xenon-powered flash.
The message board reports that the Droid Tablet will carry the same Cortex A8 processor as the regular Droid, however, will have a hefty clock speed of 800 MHz. The report claims that the Droid Tablet will carry the same 3.7? touch screen as the current Droid, and will come a bit smaller. The report also declares that the Tablet will come equipped with Android 2.0 – which seems a bit premature at this point, even if the Tablet is supposed to be released in Q1 2010.