T-Mobile will be launching a new low cost tablet in time for the holiday season called Springboard. The hardware is being provided by Chinese computer company Huawei, who has a longstanding track record in tablet devices.
The entire tablet market is literary corner-stoned by Apple, but as the HP TouchPad and the Amazon Fire continue to prove, customers are attracted to low cost devices.
T-Mobile is trying to take advantage of the low-cost entry level tablet market with their latest device “The Springboard” and will hopefully see greater sales then their woeful G-Slate offering which debuted at $800 and never saw the sales they were hoping for.
The Springboard features a 7 inch IPS display and runs Google Android 3.2 Honeycomb. Underneath the hood it is running a 1.2 GHZ dual core Qualcomm processor and has 1 GB of RAM. Internal storage is relegated to 16 GB which should be enough to hold all of your media. I really dig the fact it has 2 cameras! It has 5 MP one on the back that shoots video in 720 P and 1.3 MP on the front for video conferencing. There is a built in mic on the side of the device in order to chat in real time.
This device has a number of ports which is quite exciting given the price. It has a full HDMI out and USB port for transferring data or plugging it into your television. You can also plug a USB flash drive right into the unit and run data off of that.
T-Mobile will be offering the device for $199 on a 2 year contract and will be able to access 4G internet browsing. We also have a few videos that show off the new tablets that are courtesy of Android Central and Phonedog.
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Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
