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Second chances aren’t always easy to come by, and when Fusion Garage disappeared off the map following the unabashed failure of the JooJoo tablet, we certainly didn’t expect those doors would be opening again. But open they did, swinging wide as the company treated itself to a product launch of the sort usually reserved for big-named companies with big-named devices.

This time it’s the Grid10 tablet, a $299, 16GB, 10.1-inch slate that plays nice with Android while simultaneously thumbing its nose at the OS Google built, instead relying on the completely custom-built GridOS. This new challenger can run Android apps despite not actually running Android itself, purporting to give users another, better choice of armament in these tablet wars. Is it truly better, or is it just different? The answer is waiting for you just after the break.

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Grid10 review originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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When Lenovo announced a pair of Android tablets this summer, we didn’t even pretend it was the IdeaPad K1 we were most jazzed about. Sure, it was exciting to see Lenovo enter the Android tablet market on any terms, but it was the ThinkPad Tablet that set our curious minds rolling. There was the design, for one — an obvious homage to those black, red-nubbed laptops with the same name. It has personality, one that’s inextricably tied to Lenovo’s laptop know-how. It offers a full-sized USB port, an SD slot, 1080p output, a 3G SIM and a slew of accessories that includes a dock, pen and keyboard folio case. It’s the kind of tablet we don’t review all that often: one that might actually make for some painless productivity on the road.

As you can imagine, we’ve been waiting months to learn more, and if your tweets, comments and emails are any indication, so have you. Well, wait no more, friends. We’ve been spending almost a week with one and have oh-so much to say. So what are you waiting for? Meet us past the break, won’t you?

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Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet review originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Have a look at what we found lurking deep within IDF’s technical showcase: the Novero Solana. Contrary to what its name might imply, it’s not a fancy European shaver, but actually a thinner, more rectangular Inspiron Duo lookalike. Seeing as it’s imprisoned behind glass — just like that other tablet — the only specs we can confirm are that it’s Cedar Trail-based and Windows 7 powered. Want to get a little more acquainted with it? Check out the gallery below, and peek after the break for our eyes-on video.

Myriam Joire contributed to this report.

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Novero’s Solana is a Cedar-Trail Inspiron Duo from the future (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you’re a loyal citizen of the UK anxiously awaiting a Toshiba Thrive, your sleepless nights are nearly over. The less-than-slender tablet, rebranded as the AT100, will hit the United Kingdom on September 1st. Like its American cousin, it will ship with Android 3.1 and a 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 processor — not to mention all those ports: full-size HDMI and USB, along with an SD slot. Of course, with those rumors of a thinner Toshiba tablet swirling around, you may want to hold off on buying. There’s no official word on pricing yet, though you won’t have to wait long to find out.

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Toshiba Thrive to land in UK September 1st, now known as the AT100 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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HTC’s 10-inch Puccini tab’s been poking its head out from the speculative shadows and now we have a few leaked screens to further whet your LTE appetite. The bevy of shots over on Pocketnow show the AT&T-branded Honeycomb slate packing a serious amount of carrier-installed bloat, with AT&T’s Code, Family, MyText and Navigation apps joining the likes of Amazon’s Kindle app, Cordy, Let’s Golf 2 and NFS Shift. The OEM also appears to have tacked on a number pad to its virtual keyboard solution — a feature Sony’s rumored to include in its own tablets — taking full advantage of the purported 1280 x 800 display. And, lest we forget that last pic of stylus pairing, the slab’s menu dock sports a “pen icon in the tray,” confirming those notions of Scribe-functionality. Be sure to check the source for an extra peek at the orange-colored network’s future must-have device.

HTC Puccini screens leak, AT&T bloatware and number pad make an appearance originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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