While launch dates for HP Slate 7 Extreme and other "known" Tegra Note rebrands from PNY, HOLO, Zotac, EVGA, Oysters, etc. are still expected to be set at the end of October, or November, more claimants are popping up around the globe.
1. Huiwei Fly One. I love this Chinglish, but it sounds even worse in Russian: Хуйвей Флай Уан. Transcripts aside, as nobody needs them for internal Chinese product, the tablet apparently has an 8-inch 1920x1080 2GB RAM variant in contrast to the 1280x800, 1GB RAM "base" slate. Basic 7-inch model demoes nothing of DirectStylus or Always-On HDR technologies:
Is this Huiwei an actual OEM for the likes of EVGA, PNY and other manufacturers? Time will tell. Tegra 4 is fast:
If anything, here they show as their Tegra Tab makes more circles around new Nexus 7. 雖然它在中國，所以使用一些谷歌翻譯服務。
Here you can apparently buy the "base" Huiwei for about US $229. By rumors, Panda offers this tablet for $284. Chisel stylus and flip case are supposedly extras.
2. Shenzhen Homecare shows some demo with their tablet equally very similar to the Tegra Note prototype. Indeed, why waste somebody else's good design work. Here we go:
As shown, brush, or "chisel", or just plain squishy broken stylus works reasonably well, even if not without questions. In this land (USA) where people write with their fingers on their tablets, this unusually small-tipped stylus means not so much, but it's quite revolutionary for peoples who used to use calligraphy on daily basis. Sure, there is that Sony Xperia Z Ultra for them, that's true. Only one needs to cough up 5 times more dough for the Z Ultra than this Homecare may cost.
Then again, 99 % of all my audience who seem to be interested in Tegra Note look forward to Tegra 4 gaming for cheap, stylus or no stylus. They also are not interested in Always-On HDR, and other stuff Nvidia tries to push with its Tegra 4. Whatever.
2, Colorful, Oysters, et al. didn't show anything Tegra Note yet.
The bigger gap between the first announcements of Tegra Note and HP Slate 7 Extreme and their launch dates, the more questionable the choice of 1280x800 lowish res display and mere 1 GB of RAM becomes for any OEMs trying their hand at Tegra Note.
A good demo of Direct Stylus functionality (precision, ability to re-calibration, palm rejection, lag) is still missing.
Always-On HDR video/photo was never demoed up to this point. Sure, for below $200 it's still a good slate and that new Google 7 looks like a laggy sucker in comparison, but what's the use of claiming a revolutionary sharp stylus functionality for conventional capacitive sensor when there's none demoed good enough?
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