Now that Asus offers a way for users to unlock the bootloader on the Transformer Pad TF300T, developers are starting to create custom ROMs for the 10 inch tablet. The Asus Tranformer Pad TF300T features an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor and an optional keyboard docking station. It’s basically the cheaper version of the Transformer Prime, with a little less…
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Toshiba has announced that the AT300 tablet will be available in the UK by the end of June for £329 and up. That’s about $500 US, but the same tablet is already available in the States for about $50 less. The Toshiba AT300 is basically another name for the Toshiba Excite 10. It’s a tablet with a 10.1 inch, 1280 x…
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Juniper Systems and SDG Systems have introduced a new rugged tablet meant to take a beating. The Rampage 6 features a 5.7 inch display and Android 2.3 operating system — and a big, thick case that will help the tablet survive a dip in the ocean or a fall to a concrete road. The Rampage 6 isn’t exactly the prettiest…
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NVIDIA is working on a project that could mean you’ll be able to buy a $199 tablet this summer with a Tegra 3 quad-core processor. The Tegra 3 chip is one of the fastest processors on the market, and right now it’s only available in a handful of high-end phones and tablets, typically with price tags of $400 or more….
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The ZTE V66 is a 7 inch tablet which is expected to be available from Verizon Wireless soon. But like most wireless devices, it has to be approved by the FCC before it can go on sale in the US… and today the tablet showed up at the FCC website. You won’t find a lot of technical details in the…
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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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