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ViewSonic launches Viewpad 97a tablet (in China)

Brad Linder — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:08:00 +0000

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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Smart Devices Ten3: Dual core Android 4.0 tablet from China

Brad Linder — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:00:17 +0000

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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MIPS unveils a $100 tablet with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

Brad Linder — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:21:01 +0000

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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Android 4.0 tablet pops up in China

Brad Linder — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:10:06 +0000

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 unveils 5, 7, and 10 inch Android tablets

Brad Linder — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:46:16 +0000

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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Pixel Qi, Shizhu Technology to produce tablets together

Brad Linder — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:38:19 +0000

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 rolls out Android 3.2 for the Streak 10 Pro (in China)

Brad Linder — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:25:28 +0000

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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ZTE shows off one of the first NVIDIA Kal-El tablets

Brad Linder — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:40:16 +0000

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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Fake Honeycomb tablet runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread

Brad Linder — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:00:54 +0000

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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Dell to launch Chinese tablet with Baidu Yi operating system

Brad Linder — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:26:11 +0000

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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Hisense I’TV: Chinese tablet with a TV chip inside

Brad Linder — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:12:05 +0000

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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This cheap LY-F526 Android tablet almost looks good

Brad Linder — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:01:14 +0000

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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7 inch Lenovo LePad tablet goes on sale in China

Brad Linder — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:05:45 +0000

The Lenovo IdeaPad K1 Android tablet with a 10 inch display just went on sale in the US, but the company is already shipping a new Android tablet in China: The LePad A1-07 with a 7 inch display. Evidence that Lenovo was working on a new 7 inch model has been cropping up for the past few months. It's not...

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Dell launches Streak 10 Pro Android tablet in China

Brad Linder — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:50:28 +0000

As promised, Dell has launched its first 10 inch Android tablet in China. And as expected, the Dell Streak 10 Pro looks an awful lot like every other 10 inch tablet running Google Android 3.1 Honeycomb. That's not necessarily a bad thing though: the Dell Streak 7 stood out from the crowd at launch thanks to its low resolution screen...

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Chinese tablet with HDMI, Android 2.3 hits the FCC

Brad Linder — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:25:37 +0000

It seems like every day another tablet running Google Android hits the market in China. Every now and again these Chinese tablets from manufacturers you've never heard from also make it to the US where they typically sell for very low prices. And on even more rare occasions, the tablets actually feature halfway decent specifications. A new tablet labeled as...

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