The Verizon exclusive Asus ZenPad Z10 now runs Android 7.0, and if you haven’t received your OTA update yet, bug the folks at Verizon or check for alerts on updates on the tablet, becuse the roll out should cover all users by now. Asus ZenPad Z10 is a generally good tablet at 9.7 inches with 2048 x 1536 resolution, powered by the hexa-core Qualcomm Snapdraon 650 processor, with 3GB RAM, … more…
A brand new 8-inch Android 7.0 tablet with 4G LTE is coming onto the market next month, when the unlocked Cube Free Young X5 T8 Pro 4G LTE will be released for $269 after August 10: http://www.gearbest.com/tablet-pcs/pp_663823.html? And it has more than just Android 7.0 and 4G to make it attractive. It’s powered by an octa-core 1.5 GHz MediaTek MTK8783 processor and Mali-T720 GPU, with 3GB of RAM, and 32GB … more…
A lot of people wouldn’t mind buying a cheap Amazon Fire 7 tablet despite the pretty low specs that it has, but are put off in the last minute by the Android based Fire OS of the tablet instead of a Google Play ready ordinary Android OS. Problem is, these days the major brands don’t launch many new 7-inch tablets Android tablets, so the market for 7-inch tablets with the … more…
Kodak and Archos jointly annouced this week that the first 7-inch and 10.1-inch Kodak tablets are launching now at the end of June in Europe, with a price of £75 and £110 respectively. Kodak is just the brand name here, while Archos is the actual manufacturer and distributor that use the Kodak name under license from Kodak. As such, there are no particular photography features on this tablet that you … more…
Considering the humongous success of the 7-inch Android tablet Nexus 7 years ago, a tablet that finally stopped receiving updates on both the security and OS side last year, you would think that there would be plenty of 7-inch Android 7.0 tablets out these days. But no, the major tablet brands are all sitting on the fence. So to the rescue comes a very unfamiliar tablet brand called Dynasty, with … more…
The 8-inch Android 7.0 tablet Alcatel A30 LTE was launched with T-mobile today in the US, with the tablet itself costing anything from $5 to $125, depending on whether someone wants a data plan with that or not. https://www.t-mobile.com/internet-device/ The full name for it is Alcatel A30 TABLET 8, because one of Alcatel’s phones has a very similar name, which can confuse things. But this tablet, is an 8-inch Android … more…
Nvidia said on January 17 that it would update the Nvidia Shield Tablet and Nvidia Shield Tablet K1 to Android 7.0, and now Nvidia has delivered already, with what looks like a by and large successful update having rolled out to the Wi-Fi editions of both of these two 8-inch tablets since yesterday. And this update has been rolling out worldwide too, and Nvidia has said in their statement that … more…
Here is a list of Android 7.0 tablets as of Q1 2017. A few people talked to me about this over the weekend, so I thougt it might be a good idea to round them up. Even though the Android 7.0 Nougat OS was released by Google on August 22, 2016, the stats from January 9 earlier this month revealed that Android 7.0 only had a 0.5% share of Android … more…
Just like Huawei did with the Huawei MediaPad M2 8.0, Huawei is now letting 400 Huawei MediaPad M3 owners trial the Huawei MediaPad M3 Android 7.0 update and new UI between January and March, with 200 on the Wi-Fi only model and 200 on the LTE model, before the rollout starts in late March to early April, with all markets generally believed by Huawei to have received the update within … more…
A customer care representative from Nvidia confirmed yesterday that the Nvidia Shield Tablet and Nvidia Shield Tablet K1 will both get Android 7.0 Nougat updates. This update was expected, but it’s great to have the Nvidia Shield Tablet Android 7.0 update officially confirmed. As of yet, it is only the update itself that is confirmed, so what week the update will roll out, will be announced later. So that brings … more…
Samsung fansite and firmware tracker Sammobile have it on good authority that the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 Android 7.0 Nougat update is in development. Samsung haven’t officially announced the Android 7.0 Nougat update for the Tab S2 themselves, but I don’t see any reason why Sammobile would have this wrong, since firmware updates are their speciality, and I don’t think they been wrong about this before. Samsung already have a … more…
The HTC Nexus 9 LTE tablet manufactured for Google finally got the Android 7.0 update today too, with both the factory images and OTA images being available for download from Google’s servers. The Android 7.0.0 NRD90R update for the 4G LTE model is the same update that has been available to the HTC Nexus Wi-Fi model of this tablet for some weeks, but the Wi-Fi model has moved on since … more…
Hopefully nobody was disappointed by the absence of new Google tablets today after Google’s Madebygoogle event just a few minutes ago where Google unveiled their new Pixel phones, VR gear, Wi-Fi routers, and services. Related: Android 7.0 Nougat Update Announced For Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 with S Pen Nvidia Shield Tablet Android 7.0 Nougat Update Confirmed Nobody serious in the computer industry believed that a new tablet with Android … more…
The Google-HTC Nexus 9 tablet is now being unveiled and will be taking pre-orders from October 17 while the release date is November 3, in 30 countries around the world. http://www.amazon.com/HTC-Nexus-Tablet-8-9-Inch (UPDATED: Now updated, first to Android 6.0 Marshmallow, then to Android 7.0 Nougat). The Nexus 9 tablet was unveiled along the latest OS version Android 5.0 Lollipop. The Nexus 9 specs begins with the 2.3 GHz NVIDIA Tegra K1 … more…