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Update: Sylvania 7″ Android tablet IS CRAP

April 25th, 2011 · 46 Comments · hardware reviews

CVS is selling a  7″ Android tablet for $99. I’ve been trying to get one for a while now, and I finally got one when they added it to their website. It’s a pretty decent tablet for $99, and I’m pretty sure that I’ll keep it for my collection. But I’m also seeing a weird [...]

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Olivetti Olipad coming on 7 March – 399€

March 6th, 2011 · 2 Comments · hardware news

While everyone else was in Hanover for CeBIT last week, Olivetti decided to launch Italy’s firs tablet. The Olivetti Olipad will hit the market on 7March, and it will be sold TIM and Telecom Italy stores. I didn’t find specific details, but the press release mentioned that it will be sold with data plans.

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Qumo Fresh 7″ e-reader coming soon

March 3rd, 2011 · 2 Comments · hardware news

The Qumo Fresh is based on a 7″ LCD screen and it’s running on a RockChip RK2729 CPU. It has 2 speakers, 4GB or 8GB Flash storage, a microSD card slot, microphone, and FM radio. It doesn’t appear to have Wifi or a touchscreen, but then again this isn’t a tablet. Like any Rockchip design, [...]

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From Windows 1 to Windows 7 in under a day

March 3rd, 2011 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

Some one thought it would be a good idea to try to install every version of Windows from 1.0 to Win7. It was interesting to see that what settings and programs survived the updates. This was a little nuts, but the result is fascinating. For example, a couple programs installed in Dos 5.0 still worked [...]

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First 7″ Pixel Qi Screen Now Demoing On The ZTE Light 2 Android Tablet

February 15th, 2011 · 4 Comments · hardware news

Pixel Qi and ZTE have just announced that Pixel Qi’s newest low power screen is now used on the Light 2, a 7″ Android tablet. I don’t have any pictures yet but I’ve asked a couple people at MWC to find the tablet. The Light 2 is based on Pixel Qi’s dual mode LCD screen [...]

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Velocity Micro to release 3 new Android tablets – 7″, 8″, 10″

January 5th, 2011 · 3 Comments · hardware news

All I have to go on is the press release, but wow. Look at the specs. These babies are v3.0 compatible (and the screen resolution, wowzers). I’m still waiting on pictures, and Velocity Micro doesn’t appear to be in Vegas for CES (actually, they are here). From the press release: Velocity Micro, the premier builder [...]

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Kindle for Windows 7 Phone now available

January 5th, 2011 · No Comments · software news

Well this happened rather quietly. Amazon just expanded Kindle app support by adding Windows Phone 7. The Kindle app is optimized for the Windows Phone, giving users the ability to read Kindle books on a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. You’ll have access to over 750,000* books in the Kindle Store, including best sellers and new releases. [...]

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eLocity to launch 7 Android tablets at CES

January 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news

Okay now things are nuts. StreamTV have announced that they will soon be shipping no less that 7 10″ Android tablets. They haven’t any details yet on what sets the 7 devices apart but we do know they’ll be running Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) OS on NVIDIA Tegra 2 CPUs. They also have a camera, HDMI [...]

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TM-7101 7″ Android tablet coming to Russia in January

December 15th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news

The Russian tech company Texet have announced that they will soon be selling a 7″ Android tablet. The TM-7101 runs Android v2.1 on a 600MHz Rockchip RK2818 CPU, with an unknown amount of Flash or RAM. But we do know it has Wifi and a microSD card slot. Texet also are promising Access to the [...]

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Dual screen Win 7 tablet pops up in China

December 8th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news

Details are scarce on this pair of tablets that showed up at the Elexecon trade show last week. They are said to be from a Chinese electronics manufacturer by the name of Taiji, but I’m still trying to pin that down. What we do know is that the single screen tablet is currently being called [...]

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