Tablets

Feb

[Update: It's Official] ZTE Optik: 3G Honeycomb 7" Budget Tablet Coming To Sprint For $99 In February Online, March In Stores

Posted by David Ruddock in Honeycomb 3.0/3.1/3.2, News, Optik, Sprint, Tablets, ZTE

A new tablet is coming to the Sprint network next month, though it's definitely on the budget-minded side of things. The ZTE Optik will be available to Sprint customers starting February 5th through Sprint's online store, with a brick and mortar appearance to follow on March 11th. Here's a quick breakdown on the need-to-know specs for the Optik:

1.2GHz dual-core processor (we'd expect TI OMAP 4430, but that's a guess - yours is as good as ours)
7" display (resolution unknown - we're predicting 1280x800)
1 GB RAM / 16GB internal storage
MicroSD card slot
5MP rear / 2MP front

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Jan

Editorial: $50 Android Tablet Gets 1.4 Million Pre-Orders In India, Proves People Will Buy Anything If You Call It A "Tablet" And Make It Dirt Cheap

Posted by David Ruddock in Editorials, News, Tablets

Whenever I hear about the latest and greatest tablet under $100, I get a little bit sad inside. It's sort of like that feeling you get when you see a 3-legged dog - your heart is mildly warmed by its perseverance, but the rest of you would much rather look away and think about something a little less... depressing.

Datawind's $50 (2499INR) Aakash tablet is a 2-legged dog. It's powered by a 366MHz ARM11 CPU - a processor architecture released a decade ago. It has a 7", 800x480 resistive touchscreen display. 256MB of RAM is under the hood, an amount ...

Jan

15 Best Android 3.0+ Apps For Tablets From The Last 2 Months (12/7/11 - 1/29/12)

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Applications, Best Apps/Games/LWPs Of The Week, Games, News, Tablets

Last Updated: January 31st, 2012

Welcome to the weekly roundup of the best new Android applications, games, and live wallpapers that went live in the Market or were spotted by us in the previous 2 months or so.

This edition focuses only on new tablet apps or ones that added Honeycomb support. Regular apps and games are coming soon.

The amount of tablet-centric apps in the last few weeks has been abysmal, so I decided to skip the tablet roundup a few times.

Please wait for this page to load in full in order to see the AppBrain widgets, which include ratings and pricing info.

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Jan

CyanogenMod Releases CM9 Alpha 0 For The HP Touchpad

Posted by Abhiroop Basu in News, Tablets, TouchPad

The CyanogenMod team recently teased us with a video of CM9 running on the Touchpad and now it looks like their efforts have culminated in the first Alpha ("Alpha 0") release of CM9 for the WebOS tablet.

The earlier CM7 Alpha 1 and Alpha 2 builds were quite buggy and not really ready for primetime use, but the latest CM9 release is a whole "*two* CyanogenMods better", bringing Ice Cream Sandwich goodness to the Touchpad. However, CM9 is still Alpha 0, which means "'zero hardware-accelerated video', 'zero camera', and 'zero support!'". In addition, the audio "is a mess", the microphone ...

Jan

CyanogenMod's HP TouchPad Team Releases A Glimpse At CM9, Hopes To Give Us "Something To Play With" Soon

Posted by Brandon Lancaster in News, Tablets, TouchPad

If you happen to own an HP TouchPad and have been waiting patiently for a proper Android port, you'll be overjoyed to see a sneak peek of what CM9 brings to the table. If you recall our announcements for the CM7 Alpha 1 and Alpha 2 builds, you probably remember an overwhelming indication that neither build was all too stable, and running them was not for the faint of heart. Alpha 3 is a bit better, but still has a laundry list of issues. A lot of things don't work, or only work intermittently, which makes it very difficult to ...

Jan

[CES 2012] Toshiba Unveils 5.1", 7.7", and 13.3" Android Tablets - Tells Us Absolutely Nothing About Them

Posted by David Ruddock in News, Tablets, Toshiba

We're live at CES on the show floor this morning, meandering around countless booths to bring you all the Android-related news you can handle. One of our first stops in the Las Vegas Convention Center was the Toshiba booth, where the company demoed three brand-new Android tablets, which they refused to tell us anything about - aside from their display sizes (and the fact that they are coming at some point this year).

Up for display (running on a photo slide behind glass, unfortunately) were 13.3-inch, 7.7-inch, and 5.1-inch tablets, all of them fairly similar in design to the ...

Jan

[Update][CES 2012] Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 Outed for Verizon LTE, Has A 1280x800 Super AMOLED Plus Display, Updated With Even More Pictures!

Posted by Ron Amadeo in 4G, Galaxy Tab 7.7, Samsung, Tablets, Verizon Wireless

The tablet flood continues, the latest from Sammy is the Galaxy Tab 7.7 for Verizon. This little guy hopes to stand out from the crowd with the largest OLED display Samsung has ever put on a tablet: a 7.7 inch, Super AMOLED Plus Display.

The "Plus" on the end of "Super AMOLED Plus" means "not pentile," so you're even getting the full compliment of subpixels. It looks like this:

Now for the bad news, it's only Android 3.2, and it's got Touchwiz, and lots of crapware. The Samsung Apps recommendation engine, Samsung Media Hub, Samsung Social ...

Jan

[Updated] CES 2012: ASUS Announces Transformer Prime TF700T With 1920x1200 Display, 2MP Camera, And GPS Fix; Also Introduces 7" MeMO ME171

Posted by Abhiroop Basu in ASUS, Eee Pad MeMO ME171, Eee Pad Transformer Prime, News, Tablets

ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime TF700T

Today, ASUS is introducing the Transformer Prime TF700T, its new flagship tablet and upgrade to the Transformer Prime TF201. The TF700T, which according to ASUS does not replace the TF201, remains practically the same as the original Prime, save for a higher resolution (1920x1200) display, a better front facing camera (2MP), and featuring a new back panel design.

When ASUS released the original Prime (TF201), early last month, we described it as one hell of a device, packing more power and newer features in an even smaller package than the original Transformer (TF101). ...

Jan

[CES 2012] Lenovo Throws A Second Tablet Into The Ring: The 10-inch, Tegra 3 IdeaTab K2

Posted by Brandon Lancaster in News, Tablets

Lenovo is already kicking it into high gear - not only did it announce its new 10-inch IdeaTab S2 10, but has another 10-inch tablet in the works. This one, named the Lenovo IdeaTab K2, is the successor to the IdeaPad K1, and looks to be a powerful contender. Take a look at the specifications we know so far:

NVIDIA Tegra 3 Quad-Core Processor
1,920 x 1,200 IPS Display
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
Supposed 8-Megapixel Camera
4-Speaker SRS Sound
Wi-Fi And 3G Connectivity

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It even has a fingerprint scanner on the back that can be used as a ...

Jan

[CES 2012] Acer Unveils Iconia A700 Tablet, Quad-Core Tegra 3 Processor, 1080p Display, Ice Cream Sandwich - Coming Q2 2012

Posted by David Ruddock in Acer, Iconia A700, Tablets

We arrived at CES earlier today, and Acer's pre-CES event was the first item on our agenda (yes, on a Sunday). The company unveiled a number of ultrabooks. a new cloud service, and briefly mentioned that it was bringing a brand-new Android tablet to market later this year - so briefly that we didn't even hear the name of the device mentioned (obviously, we later found out what it was called).

The Iconia A700 will be the company's second attempt at a flagship, 10.1-inch Android tablet. While we didn't grab any hands-on time with the new tab at Acer's press ...