It may seem like 7 inch Android tablets are a dime a dozen these days… but you still might think twice before handing one over to a toddler. The Oregon Scientific MEEP! tablet is different. It’s designed for kids, and has a rugged case designed to take the kind of abuse that only little ones can dish out. Oregon Scientific…

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Verizion is rolling out software updates for the Motorola Droid XYBOARD 8.2 and XYBOARD 10.1 tablets. The update offers a number of improvements — including support for global roaming. That means you can connect to the internet over 4G anywhere in the world where there’s a supported network — although Verizon will likely charge you a pretty hefty roaming fee….

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When the Enspert Identity Tab E201 Android tablet launched in the US last year the Korean tablet had a starting price of $349. Today you can pick one up from Dynamism for just $149. The E201 looks a little dated compared with the latest 7 inch Android tablets thanks to its single-core processor and low resolution 800 x 480 pixel…

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The Toshiba Excite is the latest 10 inch Android tablet from Toshiba. It’s not yet available for purchase in the US, but now you can pick one up in the UK from Carphone Warehouse for £399 and up. The tablet is thinner and lighter than the 10 inch Thrive tablet I reviewed last year — and it doesn’t have the removable…

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Android tablets with 7 inch displays seem to be a dime-a-dozen these days… or at least available for around $199. But there are a few things that Toshiba’s $380 Thrive 7 tablet offers that you won’t find from low-cost tablets from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Lenovo, or Coby. The Toshiba Thrive 7, for instance, has a high resolution 1280 x…

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Chinese tablet maker Zenithink is making Google Android 4.0 available for most of the company’s recent 7 and 10 inch tablets. That includes the Zenithink C71 which gained a bit of attention recently when developer Aaron Seigo announced that it would be the basis of the new Spark tablet with KDE Plasma Active Linux software. While the Spark will come…

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A team of independent developers have ported a beta version of CyanogenMod 7 to run on the NOOK Tablet. CM7 is a custom version of Google Android based on the open source version of Android 2.3 Gingerbread. At the moment there are some serious bugs with CyanogenMod 7 for the NOOK Tablet, so the developers have removed the download links…

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Fujitsu is launching a new 7 inch tablet in Japan. Its called the Stylistic M350/CA2, and as the awkward name would suggest, this tablet is aimed at enterprise customers rather than the general public. The table has a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display and a 6 hour battery and weighs and weighs about 0.9 pounds. It has 802.11b/g/n…

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Months before Amazon and Barnes & Noble made a splash with their inexpensive 7 inch Android tablets, HTC introduced the Flyer — a kind of pricey 7 inch tablet with a digital pen that lets you write or draw on the screen. The Flyer may not have the same kind of name recognition as the Kindle Fire or NOOK Tablet,…

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The Huawei MediaPad is a 7 inch Android tablet with a 1280 x 800 pixel display and a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual core processor. It’s already available in the US from T-Mobile, where the tablet is called the Springboard, but Huawei has announced that AT&T is now offering the tablet as well. The AT&T is aimed at enterprise customers…

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Starting February 5th you’ll be able to pick up an Android 3.2 tablet with a 7 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display from Sprint for $99.99 when you sign up for a 2-year contract. Data plans start at $19.99 per month for 1GB of data. The ZTE Optik tablet has a 1.2 GHz Qulacomm MSM8660 dual core processor, 1GB of RAM, and…

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Samsung has won another round in its ongoing legal battle with Apple over smartphones and tablets. A German court has ruled that Samsung can continued to sell the Galaxy Tab 10.1N tablet and Galaxy Nexus smartphone in that country… at least for now. After Apple successfully managed to get the Galaxy Tab 10.1 banned in Germany, Samsung introduced the Tab…

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