Known for its involvement in Virtual Reality (VR), Facebook-owned Oculus could venturing into the hardware business (fully or partially) soon. Couple of days ago, a 6.9-inch screen-sized device, the Oculus Dawn, from the company was put through its paces on GFXBench benchmark.
The Oculus Dawn phablet/tablet device runs stock Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow OS out-of-the-box and is powered by the high-end Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 (2 x Kryo @ 2.1GHz + 2 x Kryo @ 1.6GHz) processor clocked at 1.6GHz with Adreno 505 GPU for graphics and 4 GB of RAM.
It sports a 6.9-inch touchscreen display with 1920 x 1080 pixels (Full HD) screen resolution and packs 64 GB built-in storage space, out of which 53 GB is available to the user. In the camera aspect, front and rear VGA (0.3MP) cameras are listed, with the latter having flash to complement it.
While the cameras are nowhere near impressive to handle VR, the unit of the Oculus Dawn sent for testing might actually be the prototype unit, which is yet to be provided with the final camera setup. At the moment, what the device (the phablet or tablet) looks, the final hardware specs or what it will end up like is still up in the air.
