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More newspaper tablets on the way, thanks to TigerDirect and Archos?

We could soon see more newspaper publishers offering Android tablets to digital news subscribers. TigerDirect and Archos rolled out a new program called PubTab this week that will allow publishers to customize the software on an inexpensive 10 inch Android tablet that can be bundled with a subscription package. If that all sounds kind of […]

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Philly Newspapers launch their cheap tablet: The Arnova 10 G2

Philadelphia Media Network is now the first newspaper company in the country to offer an Android tablet bundled with digital newspaper subscription content. Earlier this summer the publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News announced plans to sell an Android tablet, and today it’s available for purchase for $99 and up. That’s the […]

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CyanogenMod 7 brings Android 2.3 to more Archos tablets

  French consumer electronics company Archos makes some of the cheapest Android tablets that you might actually still want to consider purchasing. That’s because devices such as the Archos 7 Home Tablet, Arnova 7, 8, and 10 tablets have relatively fast processors, support for a wide range of audio and video codecs, and decent, if […]

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Archos Arnova 8 Android tablet hacked to include root access, Android Market

The Archos Arnova 8 Android tablet just went on sale in the US this week, but hackers have already built custom firmware for the tablet adding a few features you won’t find in the stock software — including access to the full Google Android Market. Like other Archos tablets, the Arnova 8 ships with the […]