Chinese chip maker Rockchip promised to bring more than 30 tablets to the Consumer Electronics Show, and while I didn’t do a complete tablet count, the Rockchip booth was choc full of tablets and handheld devices including phones and media players. The big news is that a number of tablets using the company’s latest 1.2 […]
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Ramos introduces budget tablets with Android 4.0 – video
Chinese tablet maker Ramos is showing off a whole new crop of inexpensive devices running Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. What’s particularly interesting is that even the leas expensive of the bunch look kind of decent. The Ramos W6HD, for instance, is a 7 inch tablet with an Amlogic 8726M3 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 […]
Acer Iconia Tab A510 tablet: Tegra 3 and Android 4.0
The Iconia Tab A700 isn’t the only new tablet Acer is showing off at CES this week. The Acer Iconia Tab A510 is also making an appearance. The A510 features the same 1.3 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor and Android 4.0 operating system as the A700. The only difference is that this model has […]
Intel demos Lenovo tablet with Medfield CPU, Android 4.0 – video
Intel is showing off a tablet prototype with a 1.5 GHz Intel Atom Medfield processor and Android 4.0 operating system.. The tablet is a pre-production unit from Lenovo called the IdeaTab S2110 and to be honest, it looks nearly identical to any of the dozens of 10 inch Android tablets we’ve seen over the past […]
First look at Leader International’s inexpensive Impression tablets
Leader International plans to launch two tablets running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich soon. One will be a 7 inch model with a 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor and a $179 price tag, while the other will be a 9.7 inch tablet with an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor. That version will sell for […]
ViewSonic ViewPad e70: Android 4.0 tablet for just $169
ViewSonic is introducing a new low-cost 7 inch tablet which will be available in the coming months for $169. What sets the ViewSonic ViewPad e70 apart from most other budget tablets though, is that it will ship with Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. You won’t get any more than you pay for with the […]
Asus Eee Pad MeMo to feature Tegra 3 chip, $249 price
Asus is showing off the Eee Pad MeMo 7 inch Android tablet at CES this week. While the company hadn’t announced details about the processor and price when it unveiled the latest version of the tablet this morning, it turns out Asus was just saving the goods for the NVIDIA press conference. It turns out […]
Android 4.0 for the Eee Pad Transformer Prime coming today
NVIDIA has announced that Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich will be available for the Asus Eee Pad Transformer tablet starting today. That’s three days ahead of schedule. We’d previously heard that the software update would be available on January 12th. The Eee Pad Transformer Prime is the first tablet to ship with an NVIDIA […]
Android 4.0 for the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime coming January 12th
The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime is the first tablet to ship with an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor. Soon it will also be one of the first to receive an official Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich software update. While the tablet hit the streets in late 2011 with Android 3.2 Honeycomb, Asus says it […]
Kindle Fire hacking update: Android 4.0 progress, custom TWRP graphics
Hackers have been making progress porting Google Android 4.0 to the Amazon Kindle Fire and making other changes to Amazon’s $199 tablet. Developer JackpotClavin has improved his early build of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. A few days ago he managed to add support for CPU scaling which improved battery life so that the tablet […]