Velocity Micro T408

Velocity Micro is extending its tablet offerings with a pair of new budget-priced Gingerbread models. The Cruz T408 and Cruz T410 are 8-inches and 10-inches respectively (natch), with built-in access to the Amazon App Store and WiFi Internet access. The tablets are available now starting at $239.

Both tablets share identical internals: a 1GHz Cortex processor, 512Mb of RAM, a front-facing camera and an extremely welcome capacitive touchscreen. The screens themselves are oddly mismatched: the 8-inch T408 will have a 4:3 screen, whereas the T410 goes for a full widescreen 16:9 experience. Resolutions weren’t announced, but I’d guess 8oo x 600 and 1280 x 720, respectively. There’s a surprising amount of built-in apps, including QuickOffice, Adobe Flash and the ever-popular Angry Birds. These being Gingerbread tablets, there’s no access to the Android Market or Google apps, but the Amazon App Store should have most people covered. [AC]

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Samsung Galaxy Player 5 inch Mini Tablet

Samsung Galaxy Player WiFi 5.0 mini tablet is available at J&R. Retailed with $270 price tag, Samsung Galaxy Player WiFi 5.0 sport a 5-inch 480 x 800 pixels capatitive touchscreen display and running Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread. The mini tablet is powered by a 1 GHz Samsung Hummingbird ARM Cortex-A8 single core processor and 8GB of internal storage. For storage expansion there is a microSD card slot. It’s rear facing camera has 3.2MP resolution while the front camera is a VGA webcam.

For wireless connectivity there are WiFi b/g/n and Bluetooth 3.0.Other features includes GPS, FM radio, 2500mAh batery and 720p video playback capability. Samsung Galaxy Player WiFi 5.0 arrive in a 5.6″ x 3.1″ x 0.5″ dimension and 6.4 ounces weigh which make it looks like a giant smartphone but there’s no telephony features offered. [LA]

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Motorola Solutions, not to be confused with Motorola Mobility, announced the ET1 enterprise tablet computer focused on retail with functionality to enhance the shopping experience. The new tablet runs enterprise-ready hardened version of the Android 2.3.4 OS, and is designed to be used 24 x 7 by multiple staff members.

The ET1 is powered by a 1GHz dual-core processor with 1GB of RAM and 4GB internal storage. It sports a 7-inch 1024×600 touchscreen with Gorilla Glass, a 8 Megapixel main camera for image capture and barcode scanning, and 720p video recording, a front camera optimized for video collaboration, Bluetooth, GPS and WiFi connectivity. It has a microSD/SDHC card slot. The enterprise tablet comes with user replaceable 4620mAh rechargeable battery for extended usage. It even has memory back-up battery to retain RAM data for up to 15 minutes when the main battery is removed.

The Motorola ET1 will be released in Q4.

Motorola ET1 Enterprise Tablet: The Only Tablet that is Flat-Out Enterprise

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With so many different options on the market it may be hard for the open minded consumer to choose the right device. This is especially true when choosing a tablet as both the iPad and high end Android Honeycomb powered tablets. Luckily, things are getting easier for those on a budget as many different hardware manufacturers have resorted to dropping the price tags for their devices.

Lenovo, for example, has recently seen the price tag of their IdeaPad K1 get discounted to just $329.99 from $449.99 over at Best Buy. Before I jump into the specs, make note that this promotion will only run through October 10th so if you’re looking to get down on it you better do so fast – check out the listing here. Now, onto the specs.

The Lenovo IdeaPad K1 features a 10.1-inch display with 1280 x 800 resolution, 1GHz dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 T20 processor, 1GB of RAM, 32GB of internal storage, 5 megapixel rear facing camera, 2 megapixel front facing camera and Google’s Android ‘Honeycomb’ 3.1.
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When we met with Samsung in late May, company representatives didn’t seem entirely sure that the company would meet the rumored June 8th ship date here in the US, but lo and behold, it’s done just that. The tablet’s launching at noon today at the Best Buy in New York City’s Union Square, and if you can’t make it up to the Big Apple, it’ll hit the rest of the nation on June 17th. But here’s the real question: is it worth making an effort to snag it on either date? The Galaxy Tab 10.1, much like its Limited Edition sibling that we reviewed last month, is ever-so-slightly thinner than the iPad 2, a slate that most sane individuals (and competitors, for that matter) would confess is the market leader today.

Naturally, everyone and their sister is gunning for Apple in this space, and Honeycomb’s the first mobile OS we’ve seen that has the potential to put any sort of damper on Cupertino’s ongoing rave. By and large, the consumer version of the Tab 10.1 is the same as the device launched at Google I/O, but there’s two key differences that we’ll focus on here: the tamed design, and the thoroughly different OS version (v3.1 here versus v3.0 before). Head on past the break for an in-depth look into both of those, but be sure to first take a gander at our Limited Edition review to wrap your noodle around the basics.
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E FUN has been churning out Android tablets left and right. Its Nextbook line is on its seventh generation and yet it still has to make a ripple in the market. Perhaps its newest version will prove to be a hit.
The Nextbook Premium 8 tablet runs on a disappointing Android 2.3, but the company promises over-the-air updates. It comes with an 8-inch TFT capacitive screen, Rockchip RK2918 processor, 4GB of storage, a microSD card slot, built-in WiFi, SlideME application manager, OfficeSuite Viewer, ASTRO File Manager, and a 2-megpaixel front facing camera. The device is preloaded with Kobo eBook Store app, though no mention of the Android Market. This latest Nextbook tablet is now available for $299.99. Good luck competing with the $199 tags of Kindle Fire and Lenovo IdeaPad A1.
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For those living in France and were looking forward to getting on board Amazon’s Kindle, the good news is that the company has finally opened a French Kindle Store, adding to the list of stores outside of the US. For those living outside of France, not to worry as the French Kindle Store will also cover those living in Belgium, Monaco, Luxembourg and Switzerland.

On top of that, Amazon will be releasing a French edition of the Kindle e-reader, which is the lowest model among the non-touch screen Kindles (for those living in the US, this will be the $109 ad-free Kindle) and will retail for €99 ($133). The French Kindle Store supposedly will come stocked with more than 35,000 French-language e-books along with 28 L’Express best sellers, and we’re guessing more will be added along the way.
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Lenovos IdeaPad A1 tablet now available at Lenovo.com with $199 price tag. This 7-inch Android tablet comes with Google ANdroid 2.3 Gingerbread OS. It’s 7-inch display boast 1024 x 600 pixels resolution. Ideapad A1 is powered by a 1 GHz TI OMAP 3622 single core processor and 512MB of RAM. Features jammed to Ideapad A1 including WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 and GPS. You can order Ideapad A1 now but it’s the tablet will start on October 27th, a couple of weeka before the $199 priced Amazon Kindle Fire. With $199 you can get Ideapad A1 with 2GB onboard storage but if you’re willing to toss another $50 you can get A1 with 16GB storage.
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Late last month, US Cellular told us that it was getting ready to sell HTC’s first Android-powered tablet, the Flyer. And for those of you who’ve anxiously waited to get one, the wait is now over. The HTC Flyer is now available to order at US Cellular.

The price being asked is $399.99, if you get the tablet with a 5 GB per month data plan. Prices for 5 GB of data start at $54.99 per month. If you want unlimited messaging as well, that will cost you $74.99 per month. So if you like HTC’s first Android tablet, don’t mind that it still runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread (an OS version designed for phones, not tablets), and need to get it with data connectivity built-in, and don’t mind having US Cellular as your carrier… then go there right now and by all means order yourself a brand new Flyer.

On the other hand, if access to mobile data isn’t that important to you and Wi-Fi would suffice for your particular communications needs, Best Buy is still offering the 16 GB Wi-Fi-only HTC Flyer for a very cool $299.99. No contracts to sign, and it’s $100 cheaper than US Cellular’s offering. Granted, although these SKUs are both basically the same tablet, they may serve different needs, so make sure you at least think about it.

The HTC Flyer has a 7-inch 1024×600 touchscreen, a 1.5 GHz single-core processor, 1 GB of RAM, a 5 MP autofocus rear camera with 720p HD video recording, a 1.3 MP secondary front-facing camera, Bluetooth, GPS, and a 4,000 mAh battery.
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It seems that Samsung is in aggressive mode with Apple on legal patent disputes. Recently, Samsung filed preliminary injunction motions to stop iPhone 4S sales in Paris and France. Now in a fresh wave of legal dispute, Samsung has asked an European Union agency to nullify Apple’s exclusive rights to the iPad design in Europe.

“Apple claims that the iPad’s design is exclusively its own, but the design existed long before the iPad,” said Samsung spokesman Kevin Jeong. Samsung has not been able to launch the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the Australian market and is feared to miss the Christmas season which may hamper the sale.

A Spain-based agency, Alicante, oversees rights for trademarks and designs in the EU countries. The registered community design, which gives an entity the exclusive rights to make, market, import or export products, stays valid for five years and can be renewed up to a maximum of 25 years.

iPad’s community design has been filed on May 2004, this means the Cupertino giant still has the exclusive rights to use the design and to prevent others from using it within the European Union.
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