Written on August 25, 2008 – 6:11 am | by Bogdan Alex |

There are many formats in which PCs come nowadays. The need for portability is greater than ever, but the days when you had to choose among a limited offer of bulky laptops are long gone. We now have notebooks, sub-notebooks, tablet PCs, UMPCs, mobile internet devices and even OLPC devices. The Eee PC from Asus is in a class of its own and I guess there are other devices I may have omitted. Anyway, companies can sometimes combine these form actors and come with a new product altogether. This is the case of Albatron and their latest Tee PC (no actual relation to the Eee PC here).

Albatron’s Tee PC is a slate-style Tablet PC netbook. Here you have it, a new denomination for a hybrid device. According to Slashgear, Tee is running Windows CE, has a 7-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen, and it’s powered by a modest 400MHz ARM926 CPU coupled with 128MB RAM and just 128MB of flash storage. No need to panic, storage space can be expanded with SD cards.

Since it’s a netbook, the Tee PC comes with WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, and you can choose a VGA or 1.3-megapixel webcam. Although the processing power is not quite up to par, the slate is capable of playing back VGA quality video at 30fps, or alternatively H.264 and MPEG4 content at 24fps. Albatron didn’t mention anything about battery life, although we know it’s a 10.8Whr battery.

The Tee PC measures only 188 x 113 x 13mm and weighs a mere 343g. It also comes bundled with a docking station that includes USB connectors, built-in speakers and audio ports. No info on availability and price for now.