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Android Tablet 7-inch From Tegra

The Vega tablet more than the device up ICD's, its also a 7-inch touchscreen device that will be powered by the greatest Nvidia's Tegra T20 cgipset. The device is the ICD Ultra, and will sport features such as integrated 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and mini-HDMI port. While the Vega was designed with your home in mind, the Ultra was probably designed with the roadwarrior in mind. The device measures in at 186 x 158 x 18mm, and will offer resistive and capacitive touchscreen options running at 800 x...

Chrome Tablet Made More Powerfull By Google And HTC

Everyone is clamoring about tablets these days ourselves included so it's not too surprising that Google and HTC are set to join the fray. They are reportedly working together on a Chrome OS Google Tablet. Smarthouse, an Australian publication, reports that HTC and Google have been collaborating "for the past 18 months" and have produced "several working models of a touch tablet," including one outfitted with Google's Chrome OS. We wrote why a Google Tablet would be a good idea last month, and...

Apple Tablet Delayed for OLED Upgrade

Interesting new tablet gossip from DigiTimes today. The Taiwanese paper says its manufacturer sources believe there will now be two tablet models: a 9.7-incher with OLED screen made by LG, plus the 10.6-inch version we've already heard about. Nothing is confirmed, of course, but there's been talk for a while now that Apple and LG had signed a five-year US$500 million panel supply agreement. DigiTimes says that 9.7-inch OLED panels are priced at about $500 bucks today, and the screen would...

The CrunchPad Tablet

The jury is still out on the feasibility of computer tablets that are designed to act just as tools for web browsing. Take for instance the CrunchPad which is the brainchild of  Michael Arrington, Louis Monier and the design studio FusionGarage. In their latest videocast, the team talked about their CrunchPad Project which is a low-cost tablet PC primary used for browsing the web. According to the team, the CrunchPad will be priced around three and four hundred dollars and will support...

CrunchPad is ‘Steamrolling Along

It will cost between $300 and $400. We're not super familiar with the term "steamrolling along" as it applies to device launches, but apparently it's good news for Michael Arrington's CrunchPad tablet. Mike dropped the news on a recent episode of Steve Gillmor's "Gillmor Gang" podcast (like "Gilmore Girls," but with less inter-generational drama), saying that he's not sure where the rumor of cost being too high came from, since costs continue to come down. The "$300 to $400" price range he's...