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Shrouded in mystery no longer is the still unnamed Android slate from Dell, which was revealed officially at CES.
Well, there’s still a bit of mystery but through announcements or educated guesses it’s got a 5 inch 800 x 400 capacitive multitouch touchscreen, Android OS (presumably 2.0). built-in SIM card option, a 5mpx back-facing autofocus camera [...]
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More info and pics of the previously reported Freescale Smartbook have been announced in the flurry of CES press releases.
Looking to combine the best bits of smartphones and notebooks is this concept design from Freescale. It operates as a regular 7 inch tablet but also comes with a QWERTY keyboard docking station for ease of [...]
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Chipmaker Freescale have put some meat on it’s chip’s bones and come up with their own 7 inch touchscreen Smartbook Tablet.
It’s powered by a system on a chip (SoC) based 1Ghz ARM Cortex A8 design, which runs alongside six co-processors (FPU, DSP, img processing, 2D graphics, 3D graphics and HD video decoder).
The screen comes in [...]
The mecca of weird and wonderful electronics, Shenzhen, has coughed up the KRT X9 Internet tablet which, unlike most tablets which run XP and CE as standard, runs Windows 7.
The X9’s not small with its 1024 x 600 resolution 10 inch display (total dimensions 226 x 166 x 24mm) and it weighs 2kg.
The guts of [...]
Coming to Japan next year is this multifuction 7 inch Hikari iFrame which doubles as an Internet tablet and a widget-laden digital photoframe which offers weather, calendar, news and recipes.
It has an SD card slot, a speaker, USB port and battery for portability.
The demographic is female Japanese 20-somethings and it’ll cost between $220 and $330.
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Pocketables have kindly snapped the year old Archos 5 Internet Media Tablet with its brand new successor, the Archos 5 Internet Tablet with Android.
The pics speak for themselves in terms of how size and style comparisons as well as featuring an unboxing and a demonstration of the dock.
See the full Pocketables run-down here.
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UK gadget site T3 have got their hands on an Archos 5 tablet to review and awarding it 3 out of 5 stars, their biggest gripe being the lack of 3G and applications.
Their overall conclusion was that the Archos 5 is a good PMP but the Android “concept just doesn’t live up.”
Despite being “well built” [...]
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Another potential gem from China comes in the form of the Tainell T500, their latest high spec Intel Atom-powered effort.
The T500 runs Windows XP on a 1.1GHz Atom Z510 processor and has 1GB of RAM. Within the 6.1” x 3.5” x 1.0” shell lies the 5 inch touchscreen which runs at the impressive resolution of [...]
The much awaited Archos 9 PC Tablet has had its innards revealed and here they are laid bare…
-8.9-inch 1024 x 600 touchscreen.
-Atom Z515 1.2Ghz with 1GB of RAM
-1024MB RAM
-WiFi 802.11 b/g+BT
-Bluetooth
-Ethernet 10/100 Mbps
-2 USBs, line in, VGA out
-1.3MP camera
-Windows 7 Starter OS
-60GB, 80GB, 120GB options
It is released on October 22nd and will cost around $500
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The CrunchPad web tablet’s creator Mike Arrington is set to announce in the coming months the release date for his $300 web wonder.
Strictly for online, the CrunchPad is Atom-powered and boots directly into the WebKit browser (which supports Flash) and has no hard drive. It has a 12” touchscreen and is looking to give netbooks [...]
