IT trade shows like CeBIT are excellent to discovery young and ambitious companies, ready to put on market interesting products but lack the PR and marketing power to do so and rely on on-site reports to make their work known to the work, hoping to be seen by investors. Hanvon is one such company, who presented during CeBIT 2010 two 10 inch capacitive multi touch slate tablets, the BC10C and BA10E, both powered by Windows 7 Starter, with no further interface enhancements.

    Most see the lack of a dedicated on top of Windows interface a negative thing, but personally I find it the best way to keep performance to a decent level as no additional processes have to run in the background on low power (and performance) CPUs like Intel’s Atom.

    Hanvon BA10E

    Hanvon BA10E

    Hanvon BA10E is powered by an Intel Atom Z530 CPU running at 1.6 GHz, while the BC10C has Celeron (at 1.3 GHz) roots which from the video below seems like a better option when it comes to performance, but this choice will sure impact performance significantly. Both models have similar design, user configurable buttons and typical USB connectors plus HDMI for video output. The BA10E will be offered with a digitizer option that will help handwriting enthusiasts.

    Hanvon BC10C

    Hanvon BC10C

    You’ll have enough storage space on the BC10C (250 GB) while the slimmer and less powerful BA10E will come with an 120 GB disk, enough for a small media collection. Price will be somewhat competitive at €500-600 for BA10E while the BC10C will sell for around €600-700. Personally I would go for the Acer 1820PT at that price range. Availability was not officially announced but as the working samples at Hanvon’s booth seemed close to a final product I bet it will be soon.

    Source: Slashgear, Engadget