The Lava E-Tab Z7H

 KEY FEATURES

•     Android v4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) OS
•     7-inch Multitouch Capacitive Touchscreen
•     1.2 GHz Processor
•     4 GB Internal Memory Expandable Upto 32 GB
•     2800 mAh Battery Capacity
•     0.3 MP Primary Camera
•     Wi-Fi Enabled
•     Unique Flick Technology - for Enhanced Entertainment

The Lava E-Tab Z7H is a tablet that caters to customers who want to enjoy the benefits of an ICS running tablet, without having to dish out a fortune and when you have a tablet that runs on the Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) operating system you can always expect a host of fun features. Powered by the 1.2 GHz Cortex-A8 processor and with 512 MB DDR3 RAM, the E-Tab from Lava is all about a fast and efficient user experience.

What you have to love about the Lava E-Tab is its 7 inch TFT LCD capacitive touchscreen which makes interacting with the table absolutely effortless. This sensitive Multitouch Screen allows for advanced functions such as pinch to zoom and makes navigation smooth and easy. The screen supports 800 x 480 pixel resolution and graphics are supported by Mali-400 3D as well as OpenGL VE 2.0, giving you exceptional clarity and fluidity of motion. The Lava E-Tab also has the unique Flick Technology that makes playing games, browsing through pages and entertainment a whole lot more fun on the tablet.

The 0.3 megapixel camera on the Lava E-Tab allows you to capture those memorable moments in vivid colours and with the video recording feature you can capture clear and crisp videos and watch them in full HD playback. You can carry your memories with you wherever you go and keep adding new ones to your collection.

Design

The E-Tab has a bold bar design that is smart and compact and resonates convenience. The E-Tab Z7H measures 122 x 204 x 11.9 mm in dimension and weighs 350 g, making the tablet very easy to carry with you. The tablet is equipped with the G-Sensor that allows for easy toggling between applications and also gives you the best view on the screen.

Storage and Battery

The Android Lava E-Tab Z7H runs on a powerful 2800 mAh Lithium - Ion battery that offers reliable battery support, letting the Tablet give you company for the long hours that you want it to. The Tablet has an inbuilt memory of 4 GB and the memory can be expanded up to 32 GB using micro SD or micro SDHC cards.

Connectivity and Features

You can stay connected to friends and family and send and receive email with ease on the Android Lava E-Tab. The E-Tab is enabled with Wi-Fi allowing the Tablet to hook up to the internet in a Wi-Fi zone. The tablet also allows you to use the internet using the 3G USB Dongle Support. The Dongles supported by the E-Tab Z7H include Airtel 3G E1731, Idea 3G E1732, Reliance 3G MF190, Reliance Netconnect+ EC150, MTS Mblaze AC2746, TATA Photon+EC156, TATA Photon+EC1261 and LAVA 730G.

You can easily connect the E-Tab to your laptop or PC via micro USB port and you can connect your headphones to the tablet using the 3.5 mm audio jack. Navigation in your city or even an unknown one is a piece of cake because the E-Tab is enabled with Google Maps, making it a great travel companion.

The E-Tab Z7H also comes preloaded with apps that we love to use like Orkut, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, TOI, Nimbuzz, Google Search, Flyte Flipkart Music App, Gmail, Google Latitude and Google Voice Search. The Tablet has games and movies and for those of you who love to read on the go, the Tablet comes preloaded with 14 books.

Overall, the Lava E-Tab Z7H that delivers powerful performance and offers connectivity and entertainment in a single touch. Above all, the Lava E-Tab is a quaint device that you can own for a fraction of the price of ICS running tablets.  

 

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Micromax Funbook Pro

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ME Tablet X1

 Running the Android v2.3 (Gingerbread), this latest multi-functional gadget from HCL Technologies is a user-friendly Tablet designed for productivity and entertainment. The HCL ME X1 is accelerated by a High-performance Cortex A8 1 GHz Processor, and comes with 512 MB DDR2 RAM. This is an added advantage, as DDR2 gives you faster memory letting you multi-task with ease.

This HCL Tablet has a 7-inch Capacitive Multi-Touch display with a resolution of 800 x 400 pixels. With the Capacitive Multi-Touch technology the Tablet responds instantly and naturally to your touch. This enables various functions like pinching pictures to zoom in, tapping, dragging or swiping across the screen. This, in turn, gives you the freedom to spend more time reading, gaming and visiting your favourite sites without a hassle. The screen has a 16 x 9 widescreen aspect ratio.

The Tablet is loaded with a 2 megapixel front-facing camera that is ideal for jitter-free video chatting through applications like Google Talk and many others. The camera also supports video recording. The X1 comes with a trendy, highly intuitive MELauncher User Interface that enables you to explore the Android Tablet smoothly.

Design

The HCL ME X1 has a dazzling, wide yet compact look and a smooth aluminium body. The sleek form factor of this Tablet measures 192.5 x 121.35 x 12.2 mm, weighing about 391.5 g only. Furthermore, the lightweight Tablet also has a G-Sensor that supports rotation of the screen based on your perspective when you hold the Tablet. 

Storage and Battery

This variant of the HCL ME uses a 3500 mAh Lithium-Polymer rechargeable battery that will last you a good 8 hours of battery life per charge. This can be charged through an AC Adapter that comes with the Tablet.

The Tablet comes with an in-built 4 GB Flash memory expandable up to 32 GB via a microSD or microSDHC card as the device has a microSD slot engrafted in it. This gives you the liberty to store a large amount of data on your Tablet. 

Connectivity and Features

For a speedy Internet connectivity, this Tablet supports Wireless 802.11 b/g Protocol for Wi-Fi access. You can connect this device to your PC, sync and backup the Tablet with your PC for seamless data synchronization. The HCL ME X1 is the first Tablet in the market that allows data connectivity through 3G USB dongles.

The HCL gadget has a Mini-B USB 2.0 port as well as an mini HDMI port to connect audio and video sources. The Tablet also supports HD gaming. This Tablet is integrated with an internal microphone, saving you the trouble of attaching an external mic for audio or video conferencing. The device also has a 3.5 mm stereo headphone jack.

This variant of the HCL ME series supports full HD 1080p video output, up to 30 frames per second. The Tablet comes integrated with Adobe Flash Player 10.3. This enables smooth viewing of expressive applications, content and videos across browsers and operating systems. Hence, you can keep yourself entertained by streaming Flash videos from websites such as YouTube, Megavideo, DailyMotion and so on.

Additional Features

The ME X1 is ideal for productivity on the go as the device is preloaded with a Document Viewer and Editor, e-mail features, and also supports cloud computing. HCL has been smart in tapping the Indian market by including various applications from Indian firms such as Jeevansathi, Clear Trip, Hungama and some others. The Tablet also lets you stay connected with friends through built-in social networking apps such as Facebook and Twitter. Besides these, the HCL device also comes with the Fring Instant Messenger, through which you can chat with your friends on Yahoo, MSN and much more.

With over 10,000 ME applications awaiting download, the Tablet covers all the significant features required for your leisure and professional needs. The HCL ME Tablet X1 gives you the liberty to carry your work as well as entertainment wherever you go, giving you the feel of a small computer in your hands.

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Blackberry Playbook

For

•     1080p HD video playback
•     Fast dual-core processor
•     HDMI mirroring
•     Secure email
•     Bright, responsive screen

Against

•     Hardly any worthwhile apps
•     Confusing bridge to phone
•     No email client
•     Smaller screen

This tablet brings a 3MP front-facing camera, a 5MP rear-facing one, a bright and crisp 1200x600 resolution screen, a light 425g body and all the typical gyro, accelerometer and GPS sensors and you have the makings for a powerful 7-inch tablet with a powerful multi-tasking, where you can run a video in one window and play a game in another with both apps running concurrently, is a first of its kind for a mainstream tab.

File storage capabilities, support for an HDMI connection for playing 1080p video and a slick interface make the PlayBook an interesting anomaly.


The BlackBerry PlayBook is designed to be mobile and business-friendly. That means, at 130x194mm, the device is small enough to hold with one hand, slip in a laptop bag side pouch, and even carry around all day to meetings. The smaller screen does make movies look less than thrilling, and there's not much space for more complex tablet apps.

The tablet is easy to grip and looks bright and crisp. The dual-core 1GHz processor, made by Texas Instruments, and 1GB of RAM add some muscle to the PlayBook, running most of the apps we tested smoothly and quickly.


The BlackBerry PlayBook doesn't support external storage, but does have a micro USB port you can use to connect the tablet to your computer. Once you do, you can configure the PlayBook so that it shares files over Wi-Fi. This means copying files to and from the tablet without having to connect is possible.

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Google's new Nexus 7

The much awaited Google's nexus tablet is out at a price of $199 only. The new tablet, which weighs in at just 340g, packs a 7 inch screen with 1280x800 screen and comes complete with a quad core Nvidia Tegra 3 CPU, plus a 12 core GPU too.


There's integrated Wi-Fi but no 3G or 4G, a front-facing camera.
There's also no microSD card slot, so you're limited massively if you're one of those that loves HD movies.

The Nexus 7 tablet includes a microphone, Bluetooth, NFC for Android Beam, an accelerometer, magnetometer, GPS and gyroscope, and the built-in Wi-Fi supports 802.11b

As you'd expect, Google's tablet runs Google's latest operating system: Android 4.1, aka Jelly Bean. It also benefits from the very polished "Project Butter" user interface technology, which is much smoother than previous Androids or Amazon's forked version of the OS, and it's the first Android tablet to ship with Chrome as its default browser.

The battery life(4,325mAh) is a big talking point too, with a very decent nine hours of video playback or up to 300 hours of standby if you promise to be really lean with your tablet.

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Foldable Tablet PC

A foldable Tablet PC concept was a big technology expectation for the future, one company from Fold & Go Mobile Tablet which envisaged by AN Design Lab has designed a flexible tablet device that can literally be folded and used. It seems that the flexible display screen will became the next trends in technology.

The display element of the tablet can utilize the component of plastic substrates that would give it the e-paper vibe.

According to the designers, they have also alluded to the utilization of emerging flexible display technologies. In relation to this, there are already many electronic giants going behind this Holy Grail of next generation display .

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HCL ME U1

HCL is also bundling free multimedia and lifestyle goodies worth Rs. 3,000 from Hungama.com, cleartrip.com and some others
HCL has launched HCL ME U1 tablet that runs on Android 4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich). It  has 7-inch (800 x 480 pixels) capacitive touch screen display and has a 1GHz processor. It has 0.3MP front facing camera, 512MB RAM, 4GB internal memory that is expandable up to 32GB.

Key Features

•     Operating System: Android 4.0 ICS
•     1GHz Processor
•     7″ Inches (800 X 480) Pixels Capacitive Display
•     3G Dongle Support
•     512MB RAM
•     4GB Internal Memory
•     Preloaded ME Apps Store which has 10,000 Applications
•     0.3 Megapixel Camera Front Facing Camera
•     Internal MIC Built in high quality speaker
•     Ports: USB
•     Wireless 802.11 b/g/n
•     3.5mm Stereo Jack
•     Bluetooth v2.0
•     Battery: 3600 mAh

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Micromax tablet

 Micromax tablet is launched keeping an eye on the large student base of India as is loaded with lots of utilities and content for students. Funbook has tried to cover all the things that lags in other tablets such as Aakash tablet and BSNL tablet. The processor is faster than both and also the internal memory is increased. The main feature of Micromax funbook is Operating System.It runs on the latest Android version 4.0 also known as ICE CREAM SANDWICH. Android 4.0 ICS is the latest in Android arsenal and provides you faster performance, more flexibility, less bugs and Intuitive Interface which ensures you never have to look back at your PC again for malfunctioning of Apps. 

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Toshiba AT100

Toshiba AT100 - Thrive

The original Toshiba tablet from the beginning of the year has itself just made an appearance on shop shelves. The Toshiba Thrive or AT100 packs a 10.1-inch screen that's sporting the Resolution+ bright light reflecting contrast feature, along with a 1280x800 resolution, and boasts 1GB of RAM with 16GB of internal memory.


Processing is via the 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 chip and the cameras are 5-megapixel at the rear and 2-megapixel up front. It's got HDMI, SD, Mini-USB, USB, IEEE 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, and battery life is a decent 7 hours. You can pick one up for around £300 but you might want to wait for the thinner AT200 to turn up instead.

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Toshiba AT200 - Excite

Toshiba AT200 - Excite

After a bit of to and fro since Toshiba first mooted a Honeycomb tablet at CES 2011, the company has finally come out with something solid 8 months later at IFA. This is the Toshiba AT200 or Excite to its friends. It's a 10.1-inch Honeycomb (3.2) tablet that will come with a 1280x800 resolution screen, 1.2GHz TI OMAP 4430 processor, with 1GB of RAM and storage up to 64GB.

You get a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera, as well as a forward-facing one for video calling and, at just 7.7mm thick, it's one of the thinnest tablets on the block to date - over 1mm thinner than the iPad 2, as it goes. It also weighs just 558 grams with dimensions of 256 x 176 x 7.7mm. Toshiba is promising 8 hours of battery life from a single charge.

 

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Sony Tablet S

 Sony Tablet S

Best Android tablet for: PlayStation gaming

As a veritable mega-giant in the consumer tech universe, Sony's landing on Planet Tablet was always going to be interesting. Blasting off alongside the fold-in-half Tablet P, the Tablet S has a unique wedge-shaped design and top-end specs.


It's a very decent and refined tablet, and has the unique feature of having access to original PlayStation games. The only issue is that it's not as tidy as the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and not as versatile as the Transformer. Apart from that, it's one of the best Android tablets out there.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

 Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

Best Android tablet for: the out-and-out tablet experience


While the Transformer and Slider offer something a little different at an unbeatable price, our number 5 -the Galaxy Tab 10.1 - offers a direct alternative to Apple's iPad 2. Sporting the Tegra 2 dual-core CPU, it's both marginally thinner and lighter than the iPad 2. This was some achievement, especially when you consider the fuss Apple made about how thin and light the iPad 2 was on launch.


But it has since been beaten on this front by its little 8.9-inch sibling and of course the Transformer Prime.


If you want an iPad-like tablet that's not an iPad, this is the one. The prices are the same as the iPad 2, so it's a straight shoot-out on features..

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9

Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9

Best Android tablet for: portability and power


In at number three is the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 - and it's a funny little thing. It's essentially the same as its older brother, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, but with an 8.9-inch screen. It's slightly thinner and lighter, and consequently more convenient for anyone wanting to stuff it in a bag.


Apart from these physical attributes, the internal components are basically the same. So you get the same slick performance and overall tablet experience. We've put this above the 10.1 because of the increased convenience owed to its slightly smaller size, but that shouldn't put you off going for the 10.1
 if you're after a bigger screen.

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Asus Eee Pad Transformer

Asus Eee Pad Transformer                                                                                                 

 The first quad-core Tegra 3 tablet smashes its way to the top of our list.The original Asus Eee Pad Transformer is still one of the best Android tablets around, but the Prime is the best of them all.It's one step better than its predecessor in every respect, and is the first tablet to launch with Nvidia's quad-core Tegra 3 CPU which adds super-powers and increased power efficiency.

Playing 1080p videos is no longer a problem, with high-res clips playing on the Prime's albeit sub-1080p display smoothly and without issue. It's also the thinnest tablet we've yet seen, and comes with a gorgeous keyboard dock which adds an additional 8-hours of battery life to tablet unit's 9-hours.

It's the best Android tablet yet launched, and it'll be unleashed on the UK in January in one single 32GB flavour with keyboard dock and a £499 price tag

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Windows N12

Window N12 is the latest tabelt of Window, it also configured a 7 inch capacitive multi-point touch screen with RK2918 chip, Android 4.0 operating system and ARM 512MB. Its main data is same with the Window N10 besides the sreen resolution ratio which is 16:9 on Window N12.

 

 

 

 

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Rumor: A $149 Google Nexus Tablet

Bad news for Android partners

The latest report from Digitimes has Google partnering with ASUS to create a low-cost tablet to compete with the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet.

It'd also run the latest version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich.

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Nook Tablet VS Kindle Fire

Battle of the cheap tablets 

 When it comes to the affordable tablets, there are really only two that matter: Amazon's Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet.

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Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime

 The first quad-core Tegra 3 tablet smashes its way to the top of our list.The original Asus Eee Pad Transformer is still one of the best Android tablets around, but the Prime is the best of them all.It's one step better than its predecessor in every respect, and is the first tablet to launch with Nvidia's quad-core Tegra 3 CPU which adds super-powers and increased power efficiency.

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Sony Tablet P

While the Tablet S sports a "folded magazine" design, the clamshell design of the Tablet P is likely to be more controversial. 3G comes as standard on this 380g, 5.5-inch screen device which offers up a still very sharp 1024x480 resolution on each side. As a clamshell design, you have two screens and, depending on what app you choose to use, they’ll either work together or separately.

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