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Yearning for a bit of dual-core action on the move? Who isn’t. Hannspree will soon try to quell that 1080p-sized hunger in all of us with its freshly announced €399 ($507) Froyo tablet. There’s no lack of spec sheet ambition here: a 1GHz Tegra 2 SOC is surrounded by 16GB of internal storage (expandable via MicroSD), an accelerometer, WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity, a 1,024 x 600-pixel capacitive touchscreen, and mini versions of HDMI and USB ports. Flash 10.1 is also proudly supported, while the 3,500mAh battery is said to last up to 8 hours when playing 1080p movies. We’d be getting real excited right about now, but we’ve learnt to be cautious with such lofty promises — remember the Gemini?

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Hannspree pairs Android 2.2 with Tegra 2 for a 10.1-inch multitouch tablet originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We can’t say we’d ever heard of StreamTV, but all the company had to say was “Tegra 2 Android Froyo tablet” to get us to meet up with them in NYC earlier today. The Philadelphia start-up is planning to bring its Elocity A7 — essentially a re-badged Compal’s NAZ-10 — to an Amazon order page near you, and from what we saw during the hour-long demo it may just be a contender for your stashed away $399. The 7-inch tablet has an extremely responsive 800 x 480 resolution, capacitive touchscreen — yes, multitouch worked in the browser and photo gallery — with a front-facing 1.3 megapixel cam on the left bezel. We actually got to make a quick Fring video call to one of the other tablets in the room, though it was rather lagging since we were running over it all 3G.

Surrounding the tablet is an SD card slot along with USB and HDMI ports, the latter of which did come very handy for hooking up the tablet to a 22-inch HDTV and watching an extremely smooth 1080p clip. (Thank you 1GHz Tegra II-720 CPU!) Speaking of, we also got to play a racing game, Asphalt 5, on the device, though the accelerometer steering was a bit flaky. Besides that, we’ve got to say the entire tablet experience was pretty smooth — you can see for yourself after the break and in the upcoming episode of the Engadget Show — but the unit we saw was running Android 2.1. The SteamTV’s CEO says they’ll only be shipping 2.2-running units come October and with a supplemental GetJar app store since it cannot preload Google’s Marketplace because of restrictions. He also tells us they’ll be including an HDMI cord and wireless keyboard in the box — all for $399. It all sounds rather promising, but so do all these future Android tablets!

Continue reading StreamTV Elocity A7 tablet packs Tegra 2 and Android 2.2, coming to Amazon for $399 in September

StreamTV Elocity A7 tablet packs Tegra 2 and Android 2.2, coming to Amazon for $399 in September originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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LG’s Ally might be scratching at the boring end of the Android landscape right now, but LG certainly isn’t stopping with one smartphone on the market in 2010. LG stated on Wednesday that it’s pouring some mega cash on R&D and marketing to play catch up, and it plans to release a whopping 10 smartphones by the end of the year, projecting sales of 5 million units in that time. The low-end Optimus One kicks things off in September with a whopping 120 carriers globally, but LG also said it has a dual-core Tegra based handset in the works for the performance minded. It’s unclear if this is a replacement chip for the supposedly Snapdragon LU2300 Optimus Q (pictured) or the innards for another handset entirely, but 10 phones is a big quota to fill (at least for anyone who isn’t LG or Samsung), so hopefully it’s the latter. Finally, LG reiterated that it’s working on a tablet for Q4. “It’s going to be surprisingly productive,” said LG’s Chang Ma, attempting to set it apart from the iPad in that regard. So, LG’s for-serious about Android, but is it too late? According to Mr. Ma, who may or may not have slowly donning a pair of really hip sunglasses at the moment, “The race hasn’t started yet.”

LG talks up Optimus smartphone line: 10 devices by year end, NVIDIA’s Tegra for high-end model, tablet will be ‘productive’ originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Notion Ink, the plucky Indian startup intent on shaking up the tablet industry, was most recently spotted turning over the sofa cushions looking for spare change, but that isn’t stopping the company from announcing pricing for its mythical first product. The Adam, it has now been revealed, will be available for $498 with WiFi, 3G, GPS, and a Tegra 2 system-on-chip powering things, with prices dipping down to $449 if you exclude either the 3G or Pixel Qi display option, and $399 if you drop both and make do with a WiFi-only LCD-based tablet. That certainly adheres to the promise of aggressive pricing, but the Q3 launch — which in itself was a slip from a Q2 pledge — has now also been definitively scratched off the board of possibilities, as the device won’t be submitted to the FCC for certification until November. Notion Ink claims that from there on it’ll be just a matter of waiting on the FCC to clear the Adam for its US launch, which could happen in late 2010 or CES 2011 at the latest. Or, you know, never.

Notion Ink Adam priced at $498, lives up to promise of being below $499 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Leave it to NVIDIA to kick off the week with some good old Intel trash talking. Let’s start with the company’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, who when asked if the Atom Z6 processor could be competitive, quickly responded with a “not possible.” Why? Well, if you ask him, “you could give an elephant a diet but it’s still an elephant.” He called out the Z6’s x86 roots and being behind Tegra in wattage — he claims it will be years before they can reach the power levels of the ARM based chip. That’s certainly an interesting analogy, but NVIDIA product director Bill Henry also has a way with words. When talking about Tegra versus Atom in tablets at the Netbook Summit, he said Intel was trying to put the power of a dump truck into a Tonka toy. Oh, but the strikes weren’t only at Intel — Henry added that the “iPad set the bar too low” and cited the typical lack of Flash and inability to handle 1080p video shortcomings of Apple’s tablet. That all sounds good and well, NVIDIA, but it’s time to stop talking and start showing some real Tegra 2 phones and tablets.

NVIDIA: Intel’s Moorestown is like an elephant on a diet, iPad set bar too low originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 May 2010 17:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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