// August 17th, 2010 // No Comments » // Hardware & gadgets
In the past months the tablet has been in the media very often. Since Apple released the iPad, more and more companies struggled to release similar products that have a lot of function and a reasonable price. So far very few have succeeded. Most of the tablets that are released are from Chinese vendors and run an outdated OS on outdated hardware. But they discovered that if they want to sell there products they have to offer good quality products, upgrade there OS and support the community. So more and more Android 2.1 tablets emerged. But, only one company managed to release the first ever Android 2.2 tablet, a real iPad alternative. The tablet I am talking about is the WITS A81E, a tablet that is running Android 2.2 on a Cortex A8 processor at 600MHz. It has a 7″ touchscreen, 256MB RAM, 3D acceleration, supports 480p video and some 720p as well and best of all it runs Adobe Flash 10.1 out of the box. This way you can enjoy YouTube videos and play online games without any problems.
Optional, the Wits A81E can be equipped with a GPS module and used as a car GPS. There still are some minor problems (a few applications force close) but Wits promised an update very soon, and so far it did not disappointed. The tablet initially runned Android 2.1, but, as promised Wits released 2 Firmware updates to Android 2.2 and will do so further on. Now, the tablet can be bought with 2.2 out of the box and you can view the internet as you do on a computer. The price is 199$ and an extra 15$ will get you the GPS packed tablet. Get it while there are still in stock from here.
