According to the New York Times, Google CEO Eric Schmidt revealed to friends at a recent dinner party that the big G plan on releasing an Android tablet computer.  According to some anonymous “people with direct knowledge of the project”, the company has been working with a number of publishers to see how magazine and newspaper content might work on the tablet.
This news coincides with Schmidt’s recent rallying call to the newspaper industry at the annual conference of the American Society of News Editors yesterday, where he stressed that, contrary …

The folks over at ArchosLounge (French language) have gotten their hands on a slide showing some  images of the 8th generation of Archos’ Internet Tablet range.  The tablets will range in size from 3 inches up to 10 inches, with 6 different sizes being available in total at prices ranging from $100 to $350.  The tablets will apparently all be running an Archos skinned version of Android, will be powered by an ARM Cortex CPU at speeds between 800MHz and 1GHz and will support 3G OpenGL 3D graphics acceleration.  ArchosLounge …

Ubergizmo ran an article today about a new ebook reader which is being released by a company called Kami.  It’s being sold as the Kami Ezy Ebook, but any eagle-eyed regular readers may spot something familiar about the obviously PhotoShopped images of the Ezy Ebook (see above and below)….this is exactly the same unit that Haleron may or may not have been selling to punters as the Haleron iLet Mini HAL.  So,we’re guessing that Kami are resellers who are flogging rebranded units  as they’re own.  We’re not suggesting Kami are …

We reported a few weeks back that a company called Enso were selling Smit 560 units rebranded as the “Enso ZenPad“.  The units were going to be being sold for a pretty tempting $155.  Going by the feedback we’ve had, demand was pretty high, but actual shipped orders were proving ellusive.  We’ve had a few emails and comments from people who had ordered a ZenPad but received nothing and we’d been in touch with Enso ourselves to find out if there was any logistical hold up, only to be told …

Stuff.TV were given a bit of time to play around with the ICD Gemini, which was announced yesterday.  Given the use of phrases such as “pant-wettingly thrilling” and “blisteringly fast” in their hands on article,  we’re guessing they quite liked it.  The unit they had was a prototype and was nowhere near finished, so they did find some flaws, such as the touchscreen being resistive rather than capacitive (although apparently the final versions will have capacitive screens) and a number of the features, such as VOIP, were not fully implemented …

Ok.  I know the iPad thing has gotten a lot of people pretty excited, but I’m in serious danger of to losing track of all the Android tablets that are supposed to be coming out over the coming months (and let’s not even mention those that have been promised yet don’t even seem to actually exist like this one).  Most of them seem to be of around the same sort of spec too – a 5″ 800×480 screen, MicroSD expansion, built-in speakers and support for 720p playback.  So, you’ll forgive …

The folks at Android France have managed to get their digits on the soon to be released new Android phone from LG; the LU2300.  The LU2300 will apparently see a release in Korea at some point over the next month.
The specs are still a little sparse on this one, but what we do know is the phone will be running Android 2.1, powered by a 1GHz SnapDragon CPU.  It uses a 3.5inch, 800 x 480 WVGA AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display, has a 5MP camera and a slideout QWERTY keyboard which …

ICD, the company behind the Android 2.0 Vega tablet which was announced a while back, and should hopefully break cover soon, have revealed their next device: the ICD Gemini.  The Gemini is an Android tablet with an 11.2 inch touchscreen, 1GHz Tegra-2 CPU, 4GB on-board storage with SD expansion slot and 3G and WiFi compatibility built-in.  It’s also packing an HDMI port,  USB support, Bluetooth connectivity, a headphone jack and two cameras – a 2MP fixed-focus one at the front for video calls and a 5MP auto-focus snapper at the …

Following on from the news that People of Lava are going to be releasing a TV with Android 1.5 built-in, we thought we’d put a few questions to them. People of Lava’s Marketing Director, Martin Ljunggren kindly took a few moments out from his day to answer our questions. Read all that he had to say by following the link.

I have no idea how genuine this is [edit- it's genuine, see update below], but, we received a tip off about a Swedish based company called People of Lava, who claim to be releasing a series of televisions with Android 1.5 built-in.  The Scandinavia television sets are full 1080p HD compatible and will be available in three different sizes; 42″, 47″ and 55″.  The photos on the site, whether they are simply concept art or not, hint at some really great looking TV sets running what seems to be a …