 By prasad, on  October 8th, 2010 That Motorola is going to launch an Android Gingerbread based Tablet PC on the Verizon network has been known to us for a while now, but it was earlier expected to launch end of 2010.
What we now know is that this Tablet, to be called the Motorola Stingray will launch in Q1 of 2011 instead. The Stingray, if your memory needs some jogging, will be powered by an Nvidia Tegra 2, with the ARM Cortex A9 based dual core processor, and include a 10.1″ multi touch capacitive screen with a likely resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, a 16 GB built-in flash storage, and run Android 3.0 Gingerbread.
The Motorola Tablet device should launch with a CDMA flavor radio, but should be hardware upgradeable to LTE. How this upgrade would be achieved is not clear as of now.
By prasad, on October 8th, 2010 Augen seem to have managed to leave their past controversies around the Gentouch 78 behind them, as they prepare to unleash not one or two, but a full range of six Android Tablet PCs, priced between $199 and $599.99.
However, the folks at Augen seem to have been drinking too much coffee in this effort, and the influence is pretty obvious in the nomenclature of their Android Tablet PC range.
The Latte series will consist of the Gentouch Latte and the Gentouch Latte Grande. The Gentouch Latte will be a 7″ Android tablet with a 800 x 480 pixel resolution resistive touch screen, also featuring a HDMI output, G-sensor, Wifi a/b/g/n, SD card expansion slot, and 2 GB of built-in storage. The latte is going to be priced at $199.99.
 The Gentouch latte Grande will feature a 7″ 800 x 600 pixel multi-touch capacitive touch screen, and run Android 2.2 FroYo. This flagship model in the Latte series will be powered by an 800 MHz processor and include a 3 axis accelerometer, 3 axis compass, ambient light sensor, HDMI output, SD card slot for memory expansion, and a 2 GB built-in storage. The Gentouch Latte Grande will be priced at $249.99.
There is also the Espresso series, which will be the premier line of Augen’s Android Tablets offering Android 2.2 FroYo with social networking, emailing, business applications and gaming with the 3 axis accelerometer. All the four models in the Espresso line up will be powered by an ARM Cortex A8 or A9 processors, and run Android 2.2 FroYo, but all of them will also be upgradeable to Android 3.0 Gingerbread.
The Gentouch Espresso will feature a 7″ capacitive multi touch screen with a 800 x 600 resolution. It will be powered by an ARM Cortex A9 1 GHz dual core processor, and include a 3 MP front facing camera for video conferencing, bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, Wifi a/b/g/n, 8 GB built in flash memory, Micro SD card slot, 3 axis accelerometer, compass, ambient light sensor, and onscreen vibration keyboard. The Gentouch Espresso will be priced at $349.99.
 The Gentouch Espresso Dolce ups the screen to a 10.2″ 1024 x 768 resolution, down grades the processor to a 1GHz ARM Cortex A8, and will add a fingerprint resistant oleophobic coating to reduce fingerprints on the screen for $429.99.
The Gentouch Espresso Doppio will be a 10.2″ tablet that can attach with an included keyboard dock with its own 6000 mAH battery that adds to the device’s 10 hour battery life taking it to an industry first of 15 hours. It is going to be something like the Lenovo LePad hybrid model and be available at $599.99. The Espresso Doppio also dual boots into Android and Ubuntu OS.
Finally, the Gentouch Espresso Firma Tablet will include a pen and creates a digital note taking experience transmitting the hand written notes to the 7″ tablet. It will be powered by 600 MHz dual core processor and be available at $349.99.
By prasad, on October 8th, 2010 The low cost PC and Netbook maker, Cherrypal, has now announced a low cost Android tablet called the CherryPad America. This will be a 7″ Android tablet powered by an 800 MHz ARM 11 processor, 256 MB RAM, a resistive touch screen with an 800 x 480 pixel resolution, 2 GB flash storage, micro SD card slot for expansion, built in Wifi, and a 3200 mAH battery for around 6 to 8 hours battery life.
Launching at a price point of $188, this low cost tablet claims to provide full access to the Android Market for applications. If these are enough to impress you, you will be happy to know that it is already on sale at online retailer Zecozi. It comes with Android 2.1, but promises an upgrade to Android 2.2 FroYo later this year.
 If all this looks kinda familiar to you, then yes, we think it is just a rebadging of the same model that you earlier knew as the GPad G10. If it is, then it would mean that the processor is actually the Telechip 8902, the same unit that powers Augen’s Gentouch 78 as well. It should also mean support for 1080P video playback, and Adobe Flash.
Update: Actually the CherryPad America seems to be a rebadged GPad G11, which is identical to the GPad G10, except for missing the built-in webcam and G-sensor.
By prasad, on October 7th, 2010  TechCrunch has claimed, citing certain sources of theirs that are apparently in the know, that Amazon is going to launch an Android App Store. They also report the following additional details about the App Store:
- For each sale of an App, Amazon will pay you a royalty equal to the greater of 70% of the purchase price or 20% of the List Price as of the purchase date (70/30 is standard, this 20/80 split is somewhat odd and confusing)
- The List Price is apparently in place so that you can’t sell your app cheaper on other “similar services” — meaning other app stores, presumably
- The “similar services” should also include the forthcoming Chrome Web Store, as per Techcrunch’s guess.
- There is a $99 fee to be a developer in this program (the same as Apple’s iOS developer program)
- It seems like if your app is available on other platforms, you have to make sure to update it at the same time on Amazon’s store that you do in any other store
- Apps will have to be under Amazon DRM — meaning they will only work on devices Amazon approves
- Amazon has the right to pull any app for any reason
- Apps can also be shown on amazon.com (this is up to Amazon)
- You can offer free apps
- The app store is U.S.-only (at least for now)
- This part is interesting too: “We have sole discretion to determine all features and operations of this program and to set the retail price and other terms on which we sell Apps.”
The terms seem to be even more stringent than is the case with Google’s own Android Market or the other similar App Stores. Its just a choice between the devil and the deep sea, as far as the App developers are concerned. We would say its a good idea to launch an App Store for Android, especially since Google isn’t allowing access to the Android Market for all Android based devices, especially Tablet PCs. However, adding too many restrictions and curtailing the freedom of developers is not going to help their case much.
Also, its not just the App Store that will be new from Amazon, If what we hear is true, Amazon apparently is also planning an Android Tablet PC of their own. We think Amazon could be rebranding an ODM model with their store brand. We have seen several carriers like Verizon, and Sprint doing it, and Best Buy wanted to retail a Tablet for their own. What do you think about a tablet PC from Amazon.
By prasad, on October 7th, 2010 Asus seems to be back at it again – after a prolific launch of several models under their EeePC Netbook lineup, so much so people couldn’t keep track of them anymore, Asus have now decided to play the same game with their EeePad Tablet PC lineup.
 The latest Asus tablet information to leak is the EP90, apparently a Tablet PC with an 8.9″ screen with a 1024 x 600 pixel screen resolution, apparently running a dual core 1 GHz processor, paired with Nvidia Tegra graphics, a 16 GB or 32 GB storage, and running some flavor of Microsoft Windows OS. All that seems to be known is that it is running Office applications.
To us it looks like it will be powered by the Nvidia Tegra 2 250 chipset, and the ARM Cortex A9 based dual core processor. The flavor of Windows it will run should be the yet to be launched Windows Embedded Compact 7. We know that Asus had already been experimenting with Windows Embedded Compact 7 even during the Computex 2010 days, but had to defer the release plans for their WEC7 tablets since the OS had been delayed by Microsoft.
 There should also be the usual array of ports and interfaces – USB, headphone jack, HDMI, MMC/SD/SD HC cared reader, 3G cellular connectivity, bluetooth 2.1 EDR, GPS, a paltry 4.5 hours of battery life. Ynet also claims that other models are in the pipeline with 10″ and 12″ screens, most likely the EP 101 TC and EP 121 models that we reported about during the Computex 2010.
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