News · 23 Aug 2010 · MTW Editorial Team
It looks like the HTC Google Chrome OS / Android tablet rumors just won’t die. The latest we heard is that this mysterious slate will launch this november in the US (on Verizon?) and comes news that Israeli touchscreen maker N-trig is supplying the capacitive digitizers to HTC. What is interesting here is that N-trig is close Microsoft partner (Microsoft has also invested in the company last year) and their claim of fame is the fact that they were the first company to have a shipping capacitive screen that worked alongside a pressure sensitive pen/stylus. Pen and inking isn’t really something Google’s products are know to do well (Android or Chrome OS) so one has to wonder why HTC will go for the more expensive N-trig panels instead of “regular” capacitive panels from companies like Cypress, Sharp etc. This is all rumors though and nobody know for sure if this so-called tablet is really based on and Google OS and not Windows.
Source: Haaretz
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