ViewSonic working on a 22-inch Android tablet monstrosity

It’s more than fifty inches smaller than the Windows 8 slab hanging on Steve Ballmer’s office wall, but the 22-inch “tablet” ViewSonic is dropping hints about is still twice as big as anything offered by their competitors right now.

The company will officially take the wraps off the new device at Computex 2012 in a couple of weeks. At that point, it will almost certainly become clear that this is more of a touchscreen monitor with an Android computer built into its chassis than a gigantic tablet aimed at people the size of the Knights Who Say Ni.

Beyond the device’s screen size, no other specifics have been revealed yet. However, given ViewSonic’s past history of creating dual-boot devices running Android and Windows — and Windows tablets with Android emulation via BlueStacks — it seems likely that this device would resemble the touch-enabled VX2258wm. The 22-inch LED display is part of ViewSonic’s current product range, and it’s easy enough to imagine them cramming in something like the MK802 Android PC-on-a-stick.

Selling the touch experience on desktop systems has been a tricky business so far, and it’s hard to imagine that Android is the secret sauce that will get folks interested — particularly when it’s still designed for tablets and phones. A screen-agnostic Android is no doubt coming, but ICS isn’t quite there yet.

Will a desktop Android PC that can also serve as a touchscreen monitor for your shiny new Windows 8 PC get people excited, or will it just confuse them? We’ll find out at Computex.

And if this all seems oddly reminiscent to you, then you might recall Lenovo’s supposed 23-inch tablet, which never quite turned out to be real.

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