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Blackberry Playbook shows up at the FCC

March 10th, 2011 · No Comments · fcc, hardware news

Blackberry’s new tablet showed up on the FCC website today in 3 flavors: 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB. But it appears to be only the Wifi models, and for some odd reason they decided to show all 3 models (there was no need). via FCC

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Lenovo Skylight hits the FCC

March 10th, 2011 · No Comments · fcc, hardware news

Lenovo first Android tablet showed up on the FCC website yesterday. The Lenovo Skylight (aka LePad)  was one of the many tablet to make an appearance at CES this year, and it looks like this tablet might have the same specs. It has a 10.1″ screen (1280×800), and it’s running Android v2.2 on a Snapdragon [...]

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10 hits the FCC

March 7th, 2011 · 3 Comments · fcc, hardware news

Samsung new 10″ Android tablet cleared the FCC last week. Unfortunately for us, almost everything has been concealed. All I have to show you is this diagram of the back of the Tab 10. BTW, when I first reported this tablet, I (and a bunch of other tech blogs) called it the Galaxy Tab 2. [...]

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Quanta QV3 tablet clears the FCC

March 4th, 2011 · No Comments · fcc, hardware news

Another mystery tablet showed up on the FCC website this week. Unfortunately, Quanta elected to hide all the info. All we know at the moment is that it has Wifi, Bluetooth, and probably a camera. I’m guessing that it has a 10″ screen and a microSD card slot, but we don’t really know for sure. [...]

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Viewsonic Viewpad 10s clears the FCC

March 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · fcc, hardware news

And Viewsonic  left all the photos and paperwork in public view, too. A new version of the Viewpad 10 Android tablet showed up on the FCC website yesterday.  This tablet has a 10″ screen, with Wifi, Bluetooth, optional 3G, speakers, HDMI out, a SD card slot, and just the one camera on the front. I [...]

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Archos 70c e-reader clears the FCC

February 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news

You might recall from a couple weeks ago that the Archos 70c went up for pre-order on J&R. Yesterday this same e-reader showed up on the FCC website. I don’t have anything beyond this photo, unfortunately. The good stuff won’t be posted until mid-April. BTW, on Sunday I posted some pictures and a hands on [...]

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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 [...]

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Next5 Android tablet clears the FCC

January 26th, 2011 · 1 Comment · fcc

E-Fun’s latest tablet, the Nextbook Next5, showed up on the FCC website yesterday. The various photos and the user manual confirmed some of the technical detail we already knew and guessed. The Next5 has a 7″ resistive touchscreen, 2GB Flash, a SD card slot, Wifi, accelerometer, and it’s running Android v2.1 on a Rockchip CPU.

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Nextbook Next6 clears the FCC

January 18th, 2011 · No Comments · fcc

E-Fun’s latest 7″ tablet, the Nextbook Next6, showed up on the FCC website yesterday. This is one of the tablets that E-Fun brought to Vegas for CES. It’s based on a 7″ (800×480) screen. According to the user manual it’s running v2.1 and it has 4GB Flash and Wifi. Like the Next2, the Next 6 [...]

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Sharp Galapagos e-readers clear the FCC

January 3rd, 2011 · 2 Comments · fcc, hardware news

Several months ago Sharp announced a pair of e-readers (5.5″ and 10.8″) that they were going to use to support their own funky enhanced ebook format. (It’s not Epub so yes it’s funky.) Both models showed up on the FCC website today. The paperwork was actually filed back in November, and some of the data [...]

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