WooW Digital Brings Out The One Tablet

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A lot of strange questions swirl around Woow Digital’s The One tablet, at least they do for me…and while I’ve got plenty of answers, the questions themselves continue to stick in my craw like so much unusually chunky creamed corn at the Thanksgiving table (parenthetically, Happy Thanksgiving to our American readership contingent).

First off, here’s what we know.  The One tablet is slated to launch with Gingerbread, Google’s latest Android version. Meanwhile, it’s also packing an Nvidia Tegra 2 processor, a full gig of RAM, 16 gigs of flash storage, a ten inch display with 1024 x 600 resolution, three different forms of connectivity (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and 3G), and a set release date of “before Christmas” with a set release price of 42,000 yen (roughly $504 US).

Now, what we don’t yet know, and this is the thing that’s sticking to me like lunatic glue: first off, has anyone else actually heard of Woow Digital? Second, are they riffing on The Lord of the Rings (one tablet to rule them all, one tablet to find them…) or The Matrix (Neo, you are The One) with that bizarre name? I hope it’s the latter because there’s nothing that annoys me quite so much as having to hurl a perfectly good tablet into Mount Doom.

Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, what is a company doing introducing a new tablet with the vague “before Christmas” date? Shouldn’t they be already set to make their release, so as to get in on the full holiday shopping season? And if you can’t take advantage of the full holiday shopping season, then why not hold out and bow your product at CES? Sure, you’re one among many, many, many at CES, but still, being at CES does often assure of some decent press if your product is reasonably sound.

It leaves me rather unsettled, all these various questions swirling about the One tablet, though the tech specs certainly don’t look too terrible.  I know people who are still happily using desktop computers that don’t have those specs–so surely a portable tablet with them can’t be all bad…can it?