HTC released an official video tour of their upcoming Flyer Tablet, demonstrating the various applications for the and pen accessory. We’ve already had the hands-on a few times over, but it’s cool to see what HTC spends time highlighting. We see a nice carousel home screen at the beginning, with an off-handed mention that it can do “most of what your PC can do”, a sentiment in the tablet space that is really starting to irk me. The browser supports Flash, which is nice and all, but the pen accessory is what steals the show.
Demos range from signing contracts to highlighting documents, drawing (complete with playback of the process), and note-taking (with additional audio, video, and typing support). The cool thing with the notes is that if your handwriting is completely unintelligble, you can rewind and find an audio recording of what was being said while you were writing. I’m curious if that means it’s always recording audio even when you don’t hit the record button… That could have some privacy/security/storage implications. Oh yeah, there’s also Evernote integration so your notes are always backed up to the cloud. Personally, I see a huge use case for this kind of thing with students and academics, as well as businessfolk who spend a lot of time in meetings.
Finally, there’s going to be a new HTC app called Watch which will offer full-length on-demand movies. That sounds pretty ambitious move, and I’m curious it’ll fare against established contenders like Netflix or Hulu.
Specs-wise, the Flyer isn’t the top-of-the-line, but definitely respectable: it’s got a 1.5 GHz processor, 1 GB of RAM, 7-inch 1024 x 600 display, 5 megapixel camera, 32 GB of internal storage, and Wi-Fi b/g/n with mobile hotspot and DLNA media sharing, GPS, and 3G (plus WiMAX on the Sprint version). It runs Android 2.4 Gingerbread, plus some Sense customizations on top.
Without further ado, here’s the video. Anyone excited to pick up a Flyer?