Pope lit a Christmas tree with tablet

On Wednesday, December 7, Pope Benedict XVI lit the Christmas tree in the Italian town of Gubbio, using the tablet Sony Tablet S, reports Associated Press.

Christmas Tree in Gubbio is a giant garland, which resides in the shape of Christmas trees on the hillside Indzhino. The composition consists of about a thousand garlands of lamps. The total area of ​​trees is about 130 thousand square meters. Its top is crowned with lamps consisting of a comet.
In November the media reported that Benedict XVI will include lights on the tree, using the iPad, but December 6th Vatican news site news.va said that for this purpose was chosen as the tablet Sony Tablet S, which is running Android.


84-year-old pontiff is not personally present at the ceremony to light the Christmas tree. Button in a special supplement on the tablet he pressed, while at his residence in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican. Gathered in Gubbio saw him on screen.

Christmas tree is lit in Gubbio each year on December 7. This tradition began in 1981. Tree, called a "symbol of peace and the brotherhood of man" can be seen from a distance of 50 kilometers.

Sony Tablet S is the first Android-tablet Japanese company Sony. It features a 9.4-inch screen with 1280 by 800 pixels and uses a dual-core Nvidia Tegra platform 2. In the sale of the unit arrived in September.

Recall, December 3 at the Vatican set up a Christmas tree, which had been specially brought from the Ukraine.