ViewSonic has been producing Android tablets with 10.1 inch and 7 inch displays for the past few years. Now the company is entering iPad territory with a new model sporting a 9.7 inch, 1024 x 768 pixel IPS display. The ViewSonic ViewPad 97a will go on sale in China later this month. The tablet has a 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex-A8…

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Chinese electronics maker Smart Devices has introduced a new tablet with a 1 GHz TI OMAP 4430 dual core processor, a 9.7 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel IPS display and Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. It’s sort of like what you would get if you crossed an Amazon Kindle Fire (CPU), iPad (screen size), Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (screen…

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Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is the first version of Google’s mobile operating system that’s designed to support phones and tablets — and that means that companies making dirt cheap tablets can finally use the latest Android software. Chip designer MIPS has announced that one of the first is a $100 tablet with a 1 GHz Ingenic Xburst processor called…

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You may not be able to buy a tablet with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in North America or Europe yet, but a Chinese company has started showing off Android 4.0 on a 10 inch tablet. The tablet is one of the first to come with Google’s latest operating system. Over the past year we’ve seen a number of cheap…

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Lenovo is rolling out 3 new Android tablets in China. The company has unveiled devices with 5, 7, and 10 inch displays under its LePad brand. If and when the new devices come to the States they’ll probably be sold under the IdeaPad or IdeaTab name instead. Lenovo LePad S2005 The LePad S2005 is a handheld device with a 5…

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A new family of Chinese tablets with displays that are viewable both indoors and outdoors in direct sunlight could be on the way. Chinese device maker Shizhu Technology is partnering with Pixel Qi to develop “a family of tablets.” Pixel Qi’s displays are LCD screens that combine some of the best features of an LCD with some of the benefits of E…

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Dell is rolling out a software update for the Dell Streak 10 Pro tablet. It originally shipped with Android 3.1, but now Android 3.2 is available. Unfortunately the tablet is still only available in China. The Dell Streak 10 Pro has a 10.1 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display and a 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor. It…

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NVIDIA is expected to launch a new low power, high performance processor for smartphones and tablets later this year. The Kal-El chip is the sequel to the popular NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, but while the Tegra 2 is a dual-core chip, Kal-El CPU will feature 4 powerful processor cores along with a fifth, lower power core that kicks in when…

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Google hasn’t released the source code for Android 3.x Honeycomb to the public, which means that if you want to install Honeycomb on a tablet you either need to work closely with Google or hack something together from the disk image made available with the Android emulator from the official software developer kit. Or you could take a different approach…

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Computer company Dell may be based in Texas, but the company has big plans for China. It seems fitting, since one of Dell’s main competitors in the US is Lenovo — a Chinese company. Earlier this year Dell announced that it was launching its first 10 inch Android tablet in China before bringing the device to the US and other…

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Chinese consumer electronics company Hisense has introduced a new tablet called the I’TV. The company calls it a personalized smart TV, and the idea is that you can use the tablet primarily as a mobile television screen, but it can also run apps. The I’TV is designed to work with a Hisense television set so that you can stream programming…

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There’s no shortage of inexpensive Android tablets from China, but the LY-F526 from Shenzhen Lingyunxianfeng actually looks surprisingly good for a tablet that could likely sell for under $200. The tablet has a 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 dual core processor, PowerVR graphics, 1080p HD video playback support, 512MB of RAM, and between 4GB and 16GB of storage. It also has…

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