Revealed last month, the promising 10-Inch Zenithink tablet that apes the iPad in form is on sale and looks like it could be a good deal, sporting many features that the iPad lacks and at 40% of the price. More »

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Once codenamed the “S-Pad,” Samsung’s 7-inch Super-AMOLED tablet now has a picture to go along with the speculation, thanks to Samsung’s South African Twitter feed, which has since pulled the photograph. More »

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From Htcyou: Well, it did not make the “before May” $179 goal, but the ARCHOS 7 Home Tablet is scheduled to ship by June at $199 for an 8Gb model. More »

Samsung, one of the world’s biggest electronics manufacturers, is not idling while the computer industry rushes to produce tablets and slates for consumers. The codenamed “S-Pad” (how original) is a 7″ Super-AMOLED tablet that is going head-to-head against Apple’s iPad. More »

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One of my pet-peeves is the misuse of terms like “knock-off” and “fake” to describe something that is merely a lookalike. Zenithink’s iPad “clone” is the latter, although it has widely been misrepresented as the former. Backed by premium features such as Android Eclair 2.1 (no outmoded Donut or Cupcake!) and 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor, the Zenithink tablet might be good and could go for under $300. More »

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From Htcyou: The equivalent of $189 nets you an iPad wannabe that has a 7″ (800×480) LED LCD, a Rockchips 600MHz processor, and Android 1.5 OS. More »

Pertaining to tablets, we have been bamboozled before. We have been fed vaporware and delayed products that were awful when finally released. Who knew that creating a good tablet was so challenging! Here is another hopeful from China. aigo Patriot’s N700 is a 7″ Android 2.1 slate with the brawny duo-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 chip, Flash 10.1, and multi-touch. More »

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From Htcyou: Spanish carrier Telefonica Movistar is releasing HP’s Compaq AirLife 100 Android touchscreen netbook in May for €229 on a €48 per month “Internet Maxi” plan or €299 on a €39/month “Internet Plus” plan. Other nations, outside of North America, should have the AirLife 100 shortly after the Spanish introduction. More »

neofonie’s WePad had an inauspicious start when it was discovered that its press conference showcased a prototype that was merely running a video, not the custom Linux operating system, which was hailed. The German group tried to calm suspicions about the tablet and invited the press to a demonstration of the WePad in full working form. More »

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…and is named after the iPad. German companies neofonie and 4tiitoo team up to introduce the €449 Linux WePad that has the ability to run Android apps. Europeans, Asians, and Americans…the only entrant missing is a South African tablet (District 9 Tablet?). More »

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From Htcyou: Has the iPad met its match? Stuff.TV takes us on an exclusive hands-on fondling of ICD’s Gemini Android tablet, a sibling to the Vega that was demoed at CES. The Gemini is not just a large tablet, but it is also a smartphone too, with a SIM card slot. More »

Haleron’s iLet Mini HAL tablet could be a great bargain. It has a tempting price and decent specs, but with little information about the company that makes it and currently no reviews of the product, it is a $199 risk. More »

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From Htcyou: At one time, Dell’s Mini 5 was thought to be just another tablet netbook, but last week, it was confirmed to be the world’s largest smartphone. With a 5 inch LCD, the Mini 5 is rumored to be a T-Mobile and an AT&T;Android 2.0 (or 2.1 or above) phone that - all options included - could sell for upwards of $1,000. More »

HTC had reportedly been working with Google on a tablet for a little while until it was canned. Now, Chromium is showing conceptual renderings, including a video, of what a Google Chrome Tablet might look like. More »

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From Htcyou: Archos has been making tablets as media players/web browsing devices for sometime, well before Apple’s iPad. Last year’s Archos 5 shipped with Android 1.5 and was not well reviewed. Critics were not fond with its plasticky screen, which did not have multi-touch, and the 5’s instability and UI jerkiness. Now, Archos is soon to release its bigger Android tablet, the Archos 7. More »