The budget tablet Arnova 8 is now shipping from J&R and on Amazon. I bought one earlier this week and it should arrive tomorrow. It’s based on an 8″ (800×600) resistive touchscreen, and it has Wifi, 4GB Flash, a microSD card slot, speakers, and a microphone. It’s running Android v2.1 on a single core Rockchip [...]
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8 Free blogs for your Kindle
March 11th, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news
A couple days ago Amazon decided to split up their several book, music, and gadget blogs, and offer each one free on the Kindle by itself. Before, you could only get them as a single conglomeration. You can find the complete list here. Don’t forget that they’re all free. I don’t think I’ll follow any [...]
First look at the Archos Arnova 8″ tablet
February 25th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
Charbax scored another exclusive yesterday when he sat down with Archos other new tablet, the Arnova 8″. Like the 10″ model, this baby has is running on a 600MHz RK2818 CPU, with resistive touchscreen, 4GB Flash, microSD card slot, Wifi, speaker, microphone, and an accelerometer. It weighs about 17 ounces, and has 6 hours of [...]
Archos 10″, 8″ Arnova tablets clear the FCC
February 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · fcc, hardware news
Archos tried to sneak a pair of tablets by me yesterday. Unfortunately for us, Archos hid all the interesting details. All we know about the 10″ tablet is that it exists, the model number is A10HT-ARTo2, and it has a speaker and Wifi. The 8″ tablet, otoh, looks to be the same tablet that popped [...]
Freescale can get 8 frames per second with E-ink
January 8th, 2011 · 2 Comments · conferences & trade shows
`Charbax shot this video at the Freescale suite the other day. (It’s off site, so I haven’t had a chance to make iy over there with my camera). This demo unit is using a Pearl screen and is running on an i.MX508 CPU which was designed specifically for ereaders and incorporates a Cortex A8 800MHz [...]
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 [...]
Vizio to launch smartphone, 8″ tablet at CES
January 3rd, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
The TV maker Vizio have just announced an 8″ Android tablet. This tablet is running an unknown version of Android on a 1GHZ VIA CPU with Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS, a microSD card slot, a camera and HDMI out. The details on this tablet are really thin and that makes me wonder what isn’t being shared. [...]
AOC to launch 8″ Android tablet at CES
January 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
The screen maker AOC are the first of many tablet makers to jump the gun and announce their tablet before CES. (It looks like it will be even worse than I thought.) The Breeze is based on an 8″ (600×800) screen with a RockChip CPU, 4GB Flash, a microSD card slot, Wifi, USB Host, and [...]
View Quest now selling 5″ and 8″ Android tablets in the UK
November 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news
The UK based consumer electronics company View Quest have just started selling a pair of Android tablets. The Slate5 (800×480 screen resolution) and Slate8 (800×600 screen resolution) are based on the same 600MHz RockChip CPU, and they have Wifi, a resistive touchscreen, 2GB Flash, a microSD card slot, speakers, and they both run Android v1.5. [...]
Some random 8″ Android tablet clears FCC
November 26th, 2010 · 3 Comments · hardware news
The title isn’t rude; this tablet has no brand name nor any distinguishing features or abilities. It’s based on an 8″ (800×600) resistive touchscreen, and runs Android v1.5 on a 600MHz CPU, 128MB RAM. It has Wifi, microSD card slot, HDMI out, speakers, and a headphone jack, but no camera, accelerometer, GPS, 0r microphone. If [...]
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