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Archos finally goes capacitive with a slew of new tablets

Archos finally goes capacitive with a slew of new tablets

Archos, Archos, Archos. There are a lot of people out there that want to like you. However, in the last year they’ve been giving cringingly little in return. Hopefully, after the disappointments of the Archos 9 PC Tablet and Archos 7 Home Tablet, your new tablet line-up can reciprocate some of the love.
Ok, so the [...]

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TCL Touchlife MID features Android 1.6, 720p and capacitive touch

TCL Touchlife MID features Android 1.6, 720p and capacitive touch

We’ve been slacking on our PMP and MID reporting as of late. The tablet market has essentially had its damn burst and we’re constantly getting flooded with new tablet releases and tech. Still, there are plenty of worthwhile MID releases that we shouldn’t lose sight of. One of those is the TCL Touchlife Android MID.
The [...]

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Acorp EM501R Android tablet offers the poor man’s solution to the Archos 5

Acorp EM501R Android tablet offers the poor man’s solution to the Archos 5

Ready for some more cheap Android tablet news? The Acorp EM501R is going to start offering 4.8-inches of Android 1.5 MID goodness. Yeah, we know, Android 1.5, but this tablet has a major selling point (in addition to Acorp saying they’ll upgrade to 2.2 and manufacturers never lie, right? RIGHT?!) — a wholesale price of [...]

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Affordable Orphan X10 MID is available for $179

Affordable Orphan X10 MID is available for $179

Enter another contender for the sub-$200 tablet market. The Orphan X10 MID features Windows CE 6.0 and an Telechips ARM11 720MHz processor with a 7-inch 800 x 480 resolution resistive touchscreen for $179. It supports 1080p HD playback and Flash as well.
Other specs for the Orphan X10 MID include 2GB of Flash storage, 256MB DDR2 [...]

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Scandal! Archos 8 has a 7-inch screen according to FCC

Scandal! Archos 8 has a 7-inch screen according to FCC

Oh my! It’s kind of like finding out that Batboy was really the one that knocked up Hillary Clinton instead of those Aliens. Scandal has rocked the tech world and at its epicenter is the Archos 8 Home Tablet. It looks like Archos got wrapped up in a bezeling contest and forgot to give the [...]

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Hongrun MID700 – a 7-inch MID for under $150

Hongrun MID700 – a 7-inch MID for under $150

If you’re a fan of cheap mid-sized MIDs then you might want to take a look at the Hongrun MID700 tablet. This Windows CE 6.0 tablet features a 7-inch 800 x 480 resolution touchscreen and an asking price of under $150.
The Hongrun MID700 is pretty much what you’d expect for a sub-$150 tablet — it [...]

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It’s another Maemo MID – The ZTE V7 tablet

It’s another Maemo MID – The ZTE V7 tablet

It looks like Maemo is beginning to nose its way into the tablet OS market. While it has enjoyed a healthy mobile tablet life since late last year with the Nokia N900, it has begun crossing over to MID and slate tablets in the last few months. There are already two Maemo tablets — the [...]

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The Aigo Walkshow NX7001 MID features Maemo and a high price

The Aigo Walkshow NX7001 MID features Maemo and a high price

Aigo’s new Walkshow NX7001 tablet looks pretty snazzy. Along with featuring 3G it also is an odd breed of MID that runs a Maemo OS… and that’s where the compliment end.
The rest of the specs are rather disappointing — especially the price. For around $500 you can get a 4.3-inch 800 x 480 resolution WVGA [...]

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Review of the Archos 7 Home Tablet by Engadget

Review of the Archos 7 Home Tablet by Engadget

Joanna Stern from Engadget has come out with her long awaited Archos 7 Home Tablet review. You may recall last week that there was some confusion after Crave reported that the Archos 7 was 100% Android. If true, that meant that many of the video formats commonly associated with Archos tablets couldn’t be played. Joanna [...]

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RTA Phantom MID runs Android off a Rockchip processor

RTA Phantom MID runs Android off a Rockchip processor

While Rockchip would make an awful type of Lays potato chip, they seem to be the flavor preferred by most Chinese MID companies. According to Pocketables, this 5-inch touchscreen MID that runs Android and features HD video playback via HDMI output. Along with that comes WiFi (natch), comes the Rockchip RK2808, as previously featured in [...]

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