Linux computer builder ZaReason is now selling its first tablet. But while all of the company’s laptop and desktop computers are sold with Ubuntu Linux, the ZaTab is an Android tablet. The good news for folks who like to tinker is that ZaReason sells the tablet with the bootloader unlocked which means that the tablet can support custom ROMs. The…
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The Acer Iconia Tab A700 is a 10 inch Android tablet with a high resolution 1920 x 1200 pixel display and an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor. Acer started showing off an early build of the tablet at CES in January, but we haven’t seen much of it since then. Now the Iconia Tab A700 is making its way through…
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The home screen on Android tablets works sort of like a desktop on a computer. You can arrange shortcuts for launching apps or place widgets to show the time, weather, headlines, or other information. But the folks behind Chameleon think there’s another way to use the Android home screen and they’ve developed an app for Android tablets that offers a…
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) went on sale this weekend… and it only took a few days for one of the first proud owners of the new $400 Android tablet to figure out how to root it. Xda-developers forum member weltwon has posted instructions for gaining root access to the Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1), which lets you access protected…
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India isn’t the only country looking for ways to offer students internet-connected Android tablets for educational use. The government of Thailand has just launched a “One Tablet PC Per Child” campaign that could deliver almost a million Android tablets to first grade students. The initial order is for 400,00 tablets at a cost of about $32.8 million. A second order…
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A few years ago Samsung released the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7, making it the first major PC company to launch an Android tablet. Running Android 2.2, it offered a smartphone-like experience in a tablet-sized device. But with prices starting at $350, a smartphone-like experience wasn’t really enough to help the tablet compete with the Apple iPad, and over the last…
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At about $125 or less, the Zenithink C71 is already one of the cheapest tablets available that can run Google Android 4.0. But today Pandawill is selling the tablet for even less. You can pick one up today only for $75.99. Not only can this tablet run Google’s latest operating system though. It’s also the same hardware used for the…
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) is now available in the US for $399.999. The new tablet features a 10.1 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display just like the original 10 inch Galaxy Tab, but it ships with Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and includes an IR blaster and microSD card slot, two features that last year’s model lacked. The…
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The Asus Transformer line of Android tablets gets a lot of attention — and for good reason. These tablets have fast processors, slim designs, and offer the option of connecting a keyboard dock for extended typing sessions — and extended battery life. Every member of the Transformer family can also now run the latest version of Google’s Android operating system….
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AOC is probably best known for making PC monitors. But last year the company also introduced an 8 inch Android 2.1 tablet. Now it looks like a 9 inch Android 4.0 tablet is on the way. The AOC Breeze MW9022 tablet showed up today at the FCC website. While it doesn’t have the most powerful processor, the tablet does have…
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The ZTE V68 is a 10 inch Android tablet with a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm dual core processor, a 1280 x 800 pixel multitouch display, 1GB of RAM, and 16GB of storage. First introduced at Mobile World Congress in February, it looks like the V68 may be on its way to the US. The FCC has published a few documents related…
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It’s only been a few weeks since the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) went on sale in the US, and it’s been even less time than that since hackers figured out how to root the 7 inch tablet. Now one of the first custom ROMs is available for the Galaxy Tab 2. Independent developer xoomdev has ported the popular CyanogenMod…
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