Web host and Broadband provider 1&1 releasing a Android tablet
Posted on 30. Jun, 2010 by TabletMan in Tablets
The new 1&1 SmartPad is the name for this upcoming tablet device from the German based 1&1. The SmartPad is at it’s core a 7″ tablet powered by a 500MHz ARM 11 CPU that will run Android 1.6(Android 2.2 will be available in September for the SmartPad). The tablets final specifications for the SmartPad are like this the tablet will use a 7″ LCD WVGA touchscreen, be powered by a ARM 11 CPU, come with 256 MB DDR RAM and 1 GB flash ROM and feature Wi-Fi b/g/n but no inbuilt 2G or 3G connectivity. You will be able to use a USB WWAN dongle to connect wireless via 2G/3G on the SmartPad.
The SmartPad will be available to new 1&1 DSL Doppel-Flat 16.000 customers for FREE starting this July. Current customers you’ll have to pay a fee for the SmartPad but 1&1 hasn’t given any indication of just how they want to price this tablet.
Something that you should know about this tablet is that it doesn’t come with the main Android App Market pre-installed you instead get access to the considerably smaller German AndroidPit(it has only around 100 applications). You will have to download the Android Market yourself if you want to easily access it’s vast assortment of applications. [Press Release] [Source]
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