India’s $35 Android tablet has a twin?

I’m not sure whether we can take this as breaking news, or a rumormill. Some reports have come in, that the India’s $35 tablet is believed to be a Hivision Speedpad, which is a $100 Android tablet made in China.

India made popular their ‘Designed in India’ tablet due to its unbelievably low price of $35 for students, at least. When you announced an Android tablet that cost merely $35, while everyone outside is pretty much paying over $200 to even $500 for nearly the same thing, whose gonna blame you for being sceptical.

Now we won’t directly jump to the conclusion that the government of India had lie blatantly to the whole world, but these images are just hard to ignore. The government had declared that the tablet being the result of hard work done by top Engineering colleges in India, whose reputation will definitely take a huge beating if at all this news turns out to be true.



At-least with what we can see, the $35 tablet looks like a knockoff of the Chinese Speedpad (PWS700HA) which was unveiled at CeBIT 2010 and received wide coverage as the cheapest Android tablet on display. Not just the looks, even the specs are very similar. Well we’ll just wait for an ‘official’ statement from the India’s government regarding this piece of report, if they would be bothered that is.

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Rydeen hopes to cash in on tablet fever with Android-based, Armada-powered PND

The tablet fever has been gaining momentum, and obvious when more and more manufacturers joining in this orgy to cash in on this goldmine. You may never have heard of auto electronics provider Rydeen Mobile, but they do know your desire for a tablet to not being left out of the fun, and has thus created an 7-inch Android tablet that integrates the dedicated map functionality of its GPS machines.

The “gPad” GCOM701 won’t be a terribly high-end device, mind you, with an 800MHz ARMADA 166 SOC, 256MB of RAM, bring-your-own-microSD-storage and what we’re led to believe is a resistive touchscreen, but it sounds like at least Rydeen isn’t being stingy on the software front. You’ll find a full suite of Google Apps, Adobe Flash Lite 4 and AVI support, not to mention 4 million points of interest thanks to the integrated Navteq client. Connectivity include GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, both mini and full-sized USB ports, plus a front-facing camera for video chat, and there’s a 2400mAh battery the company claims will provide six hours of solid use. Find it this November at an unspecified price, no doubt alongside the pictured (but not mentioned) car dock.

Specifications:

CPU / Operating System

- Marvell ARMADA 166 – 800MHz; Android OS

Screen

- 7-inch TFT resistive-type touch panel; 800×480-pixel resolution

Memory

- Internal 2Gbit DDR2 SDRAM

- External: MicroSD (removable) up to 32GB

Connectivity

- GPS: High-Sensitivity GPS Receiver (NXP GNS7560)

- Bluetooth: Marvell 8688

- Wi-Fi: 802.11b/g (Marvell 8688)

Ports

- Audio: 3.5mm Stereo Headphone Jack

- Data: USB and Mini USB (2.0)

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AigoPad powered by Android

Aigo has a unveiled a series of AigoPad at the product launch event in the Beijing. The series include the 4-inch, 5-inch or 7-inch model and all of them were powered by Android OS. There’s no info on the speification yet. However, Aigo is going to release them in July. We’ll see by then.

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Dell’s Streak aka Mini 5 going to the UK

Dell is going to released their latest Android tablet Streak aka Mini 5 in the UK. It was unveiled back in January. The device is powered by 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and comes with a 5-inch touchscreen display, a 5-megapixel camera with dual LED flash, a front facing camera, a 2GB of internal memory, a microSD card slot (up to 32GB), GPS, 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth, a 3.5mm headset jack and runs on Android OS. It will be available in June through O2 and Carphone Warephone while the pricing is not known at the moment.

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