Verizon is expected to be carrying tablets in the near future, and its close relationship with Motorola leads to speculation that Motorola’s 10-inch tablet could be headed to the CDMA carrier as an opponent for AT&T’s iPad. One fresh report suggests that Motorola’s slate will be launched with Android 3.0 Gingerbread in November. More »

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From Ziggytek: Smartbooks will try to intellectualize the dumb and slow netbook. Toshiba’s Android 2.1 powered AC100 is a 10.1-inch (1024×600) smartbook with a muscular NVIDIA Tegra 250, which is based off the duo 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor. More »

Blog Android and Me is the first to be graced with a preview of Motorola’s Droid 2, which looks like its predecessor (except for the re-worked keypad) but internally is housing a beastly 1GHz TI OMAP3630 processor (Droid has 550MHz TI OMAP343) with integrated PowerVR SGX530 graphics and 512Mb RAM (over 256Mb in the Droid). Benchmarks conducted show that the Droid 2 is substantially faster than the original, which is still one of the more powerful smartphones out there. More »

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From Ziggytek: Malata’s SMB-A1011 10.1-Inch Android slate could be a winner because it possesses many magnificent traits: Android 2.1 Eclair, powerful NVIDIA Tegra 2 (Duo-Core 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9) that destroys the iPad, HDMI output with 1080p support, and a capacitive touchscreen. More »

Before the end of the year, Motorola will have an Android 2.2 FroYo smartphone that is powered by a 2GHz processor (battery life grimaces) with NVIDIA’s Tegra chip. Stateside, Motorola has kept fairly quiet in the midst of paramount launches from closest Android rival HTC, but with the Droid Xtreme, Droid 2, and the 2GHz model set for Q3-Q4 releases, the American phone corporation should strike back intensely. More »

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Weeks prior to Apple’s iPad unveiling, Android tablets had been shown prominently at CES in early January. The tablet makers were MSI, Notion Ink, ICD, and Compal. Dell, Quanta, and Archos also have their own machines on the way. More »

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