ICD or Innovative Convergence Devices has announced its first product, the Vega tablet which is powered by the Nvidia Tegra SoC. What makes this device even more interesting is the fact that when it becomes available it will run Android 2.0 Eclair.

The Vega tablet is quite different to recent tablet devices we've seen in quite a few ways. For starters it has a large 15.6-inch resistive touch screen display with 1,366x768 resolution. This makes the Vega somewhat less portable than the 10-inch and below tablet devices, but it also gives you a much more usable screen size and resolution to work with.

The Vega tablet measures 373x254x16mm (WxHxD) which means that it's not much thicker than most Smartphones. ICD is targeting a weight of about 1.3kg which puts the Vega tablet on par with many netbooks. We're not sold on the fact that it only has a single cell battery back that is only rated for 4h of untethered usage, although the 2h charge time seems quite acceptable.

The Tegra SoC is paired up with 512MB of RAM and ROM and there's also a micro SD card slot for storage memory expansion. It also has a USB 2.0 port, Bluetooth 2.1, 802.11b/g WiFi, an accelerometer, a 1.3 Megapixel webcam, a pair of digital microphones and a 3.5mm headphone jack. It can also be fitted with either a 2G or a 3G cellular option.

However, one final feature that sets the Vega apart from just about every other tablet out there is the supplied magnetic dock/charger/stand. This puts the Vega at an angle much like a normal display which could possibly make it appeal to those that want a mobile computer that can sometimes be used as a desktop system.

The question is if Nvidia's Tegra SoC and Android will be a good combination for a device such as this. Tegra has a lot of potential, but we're not certain that this is the right type of device for it to be fitted to. We can't see a huge demand for something like the Vega, but if implemented right it might be a useful device around the office or home for those that don't need or want a full-on PC.

ICD is planning to launch 7 and 11-inch devices at a later stage and is planning to distribute the Vega range of tablets in North America, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East through Tier 1 carrier through the first half of next year. The Vega tablets are being marketed as low-cost, large screen in-home devices with complete connectivity, but with no pricing announced, the question is how much is low-cost?

The product page can be found here