In this video from CES 2013, we go hands on with the ARCHOS GamePad Android 4.1 Jelly Bean tablet. The GamePad basically merges a 7-inch tablet with a full-featured gaming controller with exclusive button mapping capabilities. The gaming tablet is powered by a dual-core 1.6GHz processor, quad-core Mali 400MP GPU and 1GB of RAM....
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The $200 Google Nexus 7 tablet by Asus has been a huge success in the second half of 2012, as evident by its ongoing “sold out” status on the Google Play Store this holiday season. Well, it seems Asus will be following up with a pair of Nexus 7-like tablets of its own, sans...
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Today, Apple announced the iPad Mini at a press conference in San Jose, California. The new tablet is essentially a smaller iPad 2 with improved cameras. It features Apple’s A5 dual-core chip, a 7.9-inch LED-backlit IPS display with 1024×768 resolution (sorry, not Retina), 5 megapixel rear iSight camera with 1080p HD video capture, 1.2MP...
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While in Japan for CEATEC 2012, we dropped by NEC’s booth to check out the MEDIAS TAB UL N-08D Android tablet. It rocks a 7-inch WXGA 1280×800 display, Qualcomm MSM8960 Snapdragon S4 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, an 8 megapixel rear camera, a 2 megapixel front-facing camera, 3100 mAh...
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Along with the Ascend G600 smartphone, Huawei also announced details for the MediaPad 7 Lite Android tablet. The ultra-portable device, which weighs 370g and measures 11mm thin, sports a 7-inch WSVGA IPS display, Cortex A8 1.2GHz processor, 8GB of flash memory, 1GB of RAM, a 3.2 megapixel rear camera, 0.3 megapixel front-facing camera, and...
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Google updated its Gmail application for Android with better support for 7-inch tablets running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich or 4.1 Jelly Bean, like the Nexus 7. The brief changelog lists bug fixes and performance improvements for tablets as well. Google has also implemented a new labels API for third-party app developers and boosted...
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In the image gallery below, the Google Nexus 7, manufactured by Asus, gets its proper teardown treatment, courtesy of the guys at iFixit. The Nexus 7 is highly regarded as the best 7-inch Android tablet and it’s available to purchase now with shipments due to arrive in mid-July. The $200-250 priced tablet is the...
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UPDATE: check out our Nexus 7 unboxing video. Google has finally put all rumors to rest by announcing the Nexus 7 Tablet from Asus. It’s powered by the all new Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system and comes at an affordable price-point at just $200-250, depending on choice of storage. The Nexus 7 Tablet...
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The image posted above has been tipped as Google’s upcoming Asus Nexus 7 Android tablet, which is rumored to be unveiled at Google I/O 2012 on Wednesday, June 27. The image tip allegedly came from a leaked training document that also reveals the following specs and details for the affordable tablet: 7-inch 1280×800 IPS...
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A few months ago, DigiTimes revealed that Google would release a 7-inch Android tablet from Asus in May. Now that the month of May is coming to an end, the Taiwan-based tech news site is now claiming that a decision had been made to delay the tablet release to July, due to design and...
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According to a credible source, Google originally planned to release their first “Nexus” Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich-powered tablet in May, but those efforts have now been sidetracked due to last minute design changes. The decision to push the launch back to July is said to be in direct relation to cost-cutting initiatives. The...
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According to DisplaySearch analyst Richard Shim, Google is planning to launch an Android tablet later this year. The Nexus tablet, as we’re calling it for now, will feature a 7-inch 1280×800 display and is scheduled to go into production this April. Interestingly, Google will apparently have between 1.5 to 2 million units produced for...
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Following the hype and release of the 10-inch Transformer Prime Android tablet, ASUS is apparently planning to unveil the smaller 7-inch tablet pictured above at CES 2012 in Las Vegas next week. It’s called the ASUS Eee Memo Pad and it’s rumored to sport a 1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 1280×800 capacitive display, 16GB...
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The folks at TIMN, soon to be the Verge, have acquired an image showing off a new Motorola tablet. It’s been assumed that this is a 7-inch tablet and if you squint hard enough at the blurry photo, you can see that it’s running the Android Honeycomb camera application. While the smaller tablet looks...
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Along with the Padfone, ASUS also announced the ASUS Eee Pad MeMO 3D, an Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet with 7″ glasses-free 3D IPS display. An identical tablet without the 3D capability was announced at CES earlier this year, which had a a dual-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm 8260 processor, capacitive stylus, 1.2 megapixel front-facing camera and...
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