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Update: Velocity Micro Cruz Tablet T301 is the first Kindle affiliated tablet?

December 18th, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news

That’s how Velocity Micro are promoting it, and it’s a big deal. I know of a couple Android smartphones that ship with the Kindle app, but this is the first tablet. Kindle support is the one interesting detail for this tablet becuase it appears to be the same device as the Cruz Reader, Pocketbook IQ, [...]

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A brief hands on with the Cruz Reader (video)

September 12th, 2010 · 17 Comments · hardware reviews

My local Borders bookstore got a Velocity Micro Cruz Reader on Friday. I’d stopped by yesterday but unfortunately they had made the natural mistake of assuming it would charge over USB. That doesn’t work with this hard ware.  So I went back today and played with it for about a half hour. I also shot [...]

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Cruz Reader hands on (video)

August 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news

Velocity Micro have just let a gadget blog get a first peak at the Cruz Reader, a 7″ Android tablet. Do you remember when I first posted about this tablet and I said that this looked a lot like the white Novel? I was right. There isn’t that much in the way of new detail, [...]

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Cruz Reader, Tablet now up for preorder at Borders

August 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news

At long last the the next hot Android tablets are up for preorder on the Velocity Micro website and at Borders. VM are promising to ship both devices in late September, but Borders won’t ship the CT until late October. I’m looking at the specs now, and I think I’d rather wait for the Cruz [...]

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