Video about an Android based pad/tablet to be released soon with a manufacturing cost of $35. This means the retail price is likely to be under or just at $100. It does flash, music, media, wifi, and more. It is based on the ARM 9 processor. Why are ARM processors good? Because they are most of the computer in one chip. This means auio, video, memory, buss traffic are all optimized in one chip Continue Reading
LG pledged itself to Android in major fashion today by unveiling several Android devices at once. It started by teasing the development of an Android-based tablet. What features it would have weren’t mentioned, but it would ship sometime in the fall. Continue Reading
I’m happy to announce that today we finalized a partnership with Marvell to design a line of education-focused tablet computers. Some of these will be OLPC machines targeted for the developing world, such as the XO-3. The line will be based both on Marvell’s reference design for its Moby tablet and on OLPC’s XO-3 designs (particularly for the low-power end of the line). Continue Reading
German internet provider 1&1 has outed a new Android-based tablet for its home subscribers, a 7-inch touchscreen slate with WiFi b/g/n and the ability to use a USB 3G modem. The 1&1 SmartPad will come preconfigured with various Android apps, including a digital photo frame viewer, ebook reader and weather widgets, and be sold alongside an optional dock with a remote control and subwoofer. Continue Reading
Cisco today unveiled Cisco Cius, a first-of-its-kind mobile collaboration business tablet that delivers virtual desktop integration with anywhere, anytime access to the full range of Cisco collaboration and communication applications, including HD video. Continue Reading
The Archos 7 Home Tablet is an inexpensive Android tablet meant for people who want to access (not create) media like video, audio, images, e-mail and Web content, but don’t have high performance expectations. Aided by the easy-to-use Android 1.5 operating system, I found that the Archos 7 performed these tasks relatively well, but I had trouble navigating to, and controlling, these applications using the device’s touchscreen. Continue Reading
Step 1: Press the “google bar” in order to turn on the keyboard Step 2: Press and hold on the Chinese Characters “中文” until another window show up. Step 3: choose “Input Method” Step 4: choose “Android Keynoard”
The enTourage eDGe has been available since early spring and debuted amongst the eReader rabble at CES last winter, so why is it now gaining attention? It could be because the enTourage eDGe is actually closer to an Android tablet than a single-function eBook reader, which was made clear after we spent some hands-on time with the device at CES Line Shows this week. Continue Reading