Picopros Review of the The NionCom™ Android Mini-Tablet

Picopros Gets an Exclusive Look at The NionCom™ Android Mini-Tablet

http://www.picopros.com/content/picopros-gets-exclusive-look-nioncom%E2%84%A2-android-mini-tablet

This is an extensive review of the NionCom Android Mini-Tablet. I think that pico projectors will become more mainstream, as this technology evolves and is the next "must have" for any techie buff.
It's a must read!

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"The smaller pico mini-tablet has 4GB of flash memory while the HDD-based Vision™ mini-tablet has a 500GB hard disk drive. The Vision™ also has an additional SD memory card slot (expandable up to 64GB). And, because these mini-tablets are Android devices, the full Android Marketplace is available. This means that users can make Skype phone calls, stream movies, surf the internet, play games, and work on office documents - each having the flexibility to display it all in a large-screen format. Near a television? Connect it via HDMI. No TV available? No worries. Simply share your content with the embedded laser projector at up to 100” in size. Because it uses MicroVision’s patented PicoP® technology, the image is always in focus and produces beautiful, vivid colors."

As a side note, Microvision had dismal financial results in their last earnings report. The reason being, there was a delay until this year for the rollout of the NionCom tablet, and the double green laser was costly. On top of that, Corning stopped manufacturing the double green laser which left the company with a large, expensive item on their inventory. With the news today, financials may finally turn around for Microvision.

Article from February, 2011
Cost-cutting MicroVision pins hopes on green diodes
http://optics.org/news/2/2/13

"Not only did its lead customer Nioncom delay plans to launch a new “MemoryKick” product featuring MicroVision’s pico projector by at least nine months (it decided to switch the operating system from Windows to Android), but key supplier Corning decided to stop manufacturing frequency-doubled green lasers.

The net result was that MicroVision was left with both a huge build-up of inventory and fewer suppliers of a key component. The complexity and high cost of that key component is also holding back the widespread deployment of laser-based projectors inside products such as smart phones and tablets."