Planet, an Android tablet by Pandigital, is going for around $160. It’s a 7-inch [600 x 800 pixels] Android 2.2 tablet and is powered by a 1GHz Intel Celeron processor as was mentioned on its product page on Amazon.
Disgo will soon be launching two new tablets – tablet 7000 and tablet 8100. Both tablets have the exact same specifications except for two things. The Disgo Tablet 7000 has a 7-inch TFT touchscreen; the 8100 features a 10.1-inch capacitive touchscreen with a screen resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. Battery is the other differentiator. [...]
Sprint is set to launch the Express, an Android 2.3 smartphone, on 18th November via direct shipping only. No word on who the manufacturer is. $19.99 will get you this piece on a two-year contract after a $50 mail-in rebate.
If you’ve got an HTC smartphone that runs Android, then you’ll soon be able to avail free 5GB of storage in the cloud courtesy Dropbox; an Android app will soon be made available for the purpose.
Motorola has introduced the ET1 tablet; it’s a rugged device meant for enterprise use. The 7-inch capacitive touchscreen device has a Corning Gorilla glass cover and a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels.
NEC has shown off a laptop running Android; at 9.9mm and only 350gm it is definitely sleek. It has been dubbed the MGX Netbook and at present it is in prototype. The MG connotes Mobile Gear. Expect the device to be 8.5-inch long and 4.3-inch wide. It was seen what appeared to be an older [...]
Although there have been rumors from time to time of the Blackberry Messenger Service being available on Android, TechRadar has, what can safely be called the first screenshots of the BBM on Android. Informed guesses are on a 2012 debut for BBM on Android.
RIM has chosen the ongoing Droidcon happening in Romania to clear the air on Android apps support on its Playbook. The news regarding the Research in Motion Blackberry Runtime for Android Apps is not very encouraging. There isn’t a lot of compatibility happening here.
The Sony Walkman Z Series of Personal Music Players has been announced by the company and it consists of three models – NW-Z1070(64GB)/NW-Z1060(32GB)/NW-Z1050(16GB). Each features “deep facebook integration” amongst a host of other features. These devices are set for release on December 10th 2011. The prices in increasing order of storage are ¥28,000, ¥33,000, and ¥43,000.
The LG Optimus Hub, which according to the trained eye and informed ears, is not any different from the LG Univa that was recently giving photo-ops, has been sanctioned for Europe. More specifically, it is set for an October release in Azzuri Land, Italy. It will cost you €199.
The Echostar IP Set Top Box HDX-200 seen at the IBC 2011 is an entry-level device but packs in enough and more features for the home user who wants devices integrated and connected with one another and the home properly networked.
Korea Telecom, which has shown the KT Spiderphone at the ongoing IFA 2011, has come up with the KT Spiderpad tablet, KT gaming console, and KT laptop.
Funai of Japan has debuted the 7-inch Alimo tablet at the IFA 2011 and going by the post here on Clubic.com, it is as cheaply made a tablet that you can get. Funai hopes to tap the very budget-conscious market in Europe. Did the weak Euro influence Funai’s decision? But then again, this gadget apparently [...]
Finally! Some details on the Amazon Kindle tablet have surfaced. Over at TechCrunch, the guys have managed to view and touch one Design Verification Testing unit. It’s a 7-inch capacitive touchscreen device that runs a very forked version of Android. Most likely powered by a single-core chip. It is back-lit and all color but with [...]
Sony has brought out a smartphone that incorporates the venerable Sony Walkman in a new avatar. Or you could call it a PMP because this Android 2.3 Gingerbread piece does not have phone functionality. The prototype went on display at the IFA 2011 in Berlin and has been dubbed the Walkman Mobile Entertainment Player.
Fusion Garage unveiled yesterday a tablet, the Grid 10. This one is sure out of the blue. If tablet aficionados remember then this is the company that had come up with the JooJoo. The tablet runs the Android-compatible Grid10 operating system. So, Android-apps lovers don’t need to worry. The WiFi-only 16GB Grid 10 tablet will [...]
Looks like Lenovo is committed to cranking out tablets in 2011. It will bring out a consumer-centric 10-inch Android Honeycomb tablet in July; which might be called Ideapad or Lepad and then release a tablet in August for the business folks; this 10-inch Honeycomb tablet may be a part of the Thinkpad series.
AT&T has announced that the Cisco Cius tablet aimed at business users will be made available via its HSPA+ network this fall. According to Steve Slattery, vice president and general manager, IP Communications business unit, Cisco. “Business professionals today demand mobile devices that combine communication, collaboration, and a powerful computing solution,” “The Cisco Cius united [...]
The Mufin Player 2.0 app for Android devices enables music streaming from the cloud directly to you smartphone or tablet. The mufin player for Android is a complete music player software that has been developed particularly for Android-based devices.
ZTE has announced three 7-inch Android tablets at the CES 2011. All three will have a 3MP camera at the back and a VGA camera in the front. Of these the most interesting one is the ZTE Lite LTE tablet which most probably will run Android 3.0, and will be 4G-capable. It is still in [...]
The 10.1-inch Toshiba tablet that will run Android Honeycomb and is to be powered by an NVIDIA Tegra 2 SoC is set for a release at the CES in a few days from now. But what we have here, courtesy Ubergizmo, is a partial specs sheet and an idea of what the tablet feature set [...]
Vizio has announced its intentions to launch a 4-inch touchscreen smartphone, the Via Phone and an 8-inch touchscreen tablet, the Via Tablet. Both will run Android, have access to the Android Market, are expected to make an appearance at Wal-Mart and CostCo around summer and Vizio is expected to have worked out the carrier deal [...]
Geinimi, a Trojan out of China and with botnet like capabilities, is the latest and most potent threat to Android mobile devices. As of now the Trojan has been detected only in China and a sophisticated piece of code that can compromise device data once active and receive commands from a remote server. In essence, [...]
Onkyo has announced the release of the 10.1-inch TA 117 tablet; the screen is touchscreen LED backlit (1024 x 600) and this Onkyo tablet comes in two versions – 8GB internal storage / 512MB RAM (TA117C1) or 16GB internal storage / 1GB RAM (TA117C3). You can choose as per your budgets and need.
BenQ of Taiwan is set to release an Android tablet next month – the 10.1-inch R100. It will have a 1024 x 600 LCD display and will be powered by an ARM processor clocking 833MHz. No word yet on the version of Android and if the screen is capacitive or resistive.
