LG G-Slate bakes 3D and Honeycomb into a tablet

The first screen to shine with Android’s made-for-tablet Honeycomb will be Motorola’s Xoom. It’s been announced and fondled. Heck, we’ve even seen a price and shelf date floating about. But launch excitement may now be tempered by a new tablet – LG’s G-Slate.

The G-Slate also runs Honeycomb. It’s also driven by a 1GHz dual-core engined Tegra 2. It has a 32GB SSD, a gyro and accelermeter, an 8.9in display and front and rear cameras. And it does 3D.

Yep – there are two cameras on the back for shooting 1080p 3D footage, viewable (with glasses) on the screen or on an external 3D display via HDMI. It’s expected to touch down in the States come March, though there’s little word on a UK release yet.

Think punters jabbing their iPads in Starbucks look a bit strange? Imagine them wearing 3D specs while they’re at it. Kudos for progress, but we don’t see a future of bespectacled punters hitting the streets G-Slate in hand. Unless Sanctum 3D is much better than it sounds. Which it isn’t.

Dan Grabham Editor-in-Chief

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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