As much as ViewSonic ViewPad wants to call their 4-inch ViewPad 4 a tablet, there's just no way anyone's going to look at it as being other than a smartphone. With that said, it sounds like a capable handheld device all on its own.
Clad in an angular boxy frame, it comes with "full cell phone functionality," which, you know, makes it a real phone. It runs Android 2.2 Froyo, as well, which puts it right in line with majority of Android smartphones today.
Details of the ViewSonic ViewPad 4 include a 4.1-inch capacitive touchscreen (800 x 400 resolution), a 5.0 megapixel camera module, a VGA webcam in front, aGPS, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1 and microSD card expansion. No word on whether it supports 3G with HSPA -- given the "full cell phone functionality" line, though, it should be a safe assumption. Core hardware consists of a 1GHz Qualcomm CPU, 512MB of RAM and 2GB of ROM.
According to the press release, it can both shoot and playback 720p videos. There's also an HDMI out for watching the output on a bigger screen and the usual suite of Google Mobile Services.
This ViewSonic ViewPad 4 joins the company's previously-announced duo of tablets, the ViewPad 7 and the ViewPad 10. It's slated for availability in the middle of the year, with no announcement on pricing.
[Viewsonic Via UnwiredView]
