CVS is selling a 7 inch Android tablet for the lowest price I can ever remember seeing. The Sylvania 7″ Mini Tablet is available online for $99.99, but you can drop the price to $75 by applying the coupon: APRIL25EC. It’s not a particularly good Android tablet, but if you’re just looking for a device for surfing the web, watching some…

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J&R is now taking orders for one of the cheapest 10 inch tablets I’ve seen to date. It’s a Sylvania Magni Tablet for $199.99. Unfortunately, it looks like you get what you pay for. The tablet has a ridiculously low resolution display, an outdated ARM 11 processor, and just 256MB of RAM and 2GB of storage. The tablet has an…

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Thinking of picking up one of those $180 Sylvania Android tablets from KMart, but don’t want to pull the trigger until you know what the motherboard looks like? You’re in luck (and you have some strange purchasing habits), because the FCC has posted some teardown pictures of the device, along with a user manual and a whole slew of test…

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It looks like the Augen GenTouch78 Android tablet was just the first inexpensive Android tablet offered by KMart. Today we learned it’s not the last, because the retailer is now selling the Sylvania 7″ MID Tablet Wireless Mobile Internet Device. Aside from a catchy name, here’s what the tablet has to offer: Google Android 2.1 7 inch, 800 x 480…

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You know how a few years ago a $100 laptop seemed like the stuff dreams were made of? Even the folks at the OLPC foundation never actually managed to bring the price of their revolutionary XO Laptop down to $100. But you know where you’ll be able to pick up a $100 mini-laptop soon? At your neighborhood CVS drug store….

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Remember that Foxconn netbook that hit the FCC a few days ago? It looks like Sylvania is going to rebrand it and sell it under its name in the US. At least that’s my best guess as to what’s going on based on the fact that there’s a new set of documents on the FCC web site showing the Foxconn…

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The Sylvania G Meso netbook might not be available just yet, but you can now pre-order the laptop at J&R or Datavision. Both stores are charging $399 for the black version. While Datavision is charging an extra $50 for the white, pink, or yellow models, J&R only offers white for now. The Sylvania G Meso sports an 8.9 inch, 1024…

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Laptop Magazine’s Joanna Stern got to spend some quality time with the upcoming Sylvania G MESO laptop this afternoon. Her verdict? The keyboard is kind of small, the speakers are loud but tinny, and everything else is more or less decent. There are a few things that make the Sylvania G MESO’s design stand out from the competition. It’s entirely…

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Yesterday we discovered that there would be a new netbook bearing the Sylvania name this fall, the Sylvania G MESO. The MESO is an 8.9 inch sequel to Sylvania’s 7 inch Sylvania G notebook. But it looks like Sylvania ain’t stopping there, because Laptop Magazine reports there’s also a 10 inch model in the works, to be known as the…

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The upcoming Sylvania G MESO won’t be Sylvania’s first foray into the netbook market. But the original Sylvania G is basically just an Everex Cloudbook knockoff (which is to say it’s based on the VIA NanoBook reference design and has a 30GB hard drive, 1.2GHz VIA C7-M CPU, 7 inch display, and a tiny, tiny trackpad). The G MESO, on…

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