We continue to mop up the IFA news with this interesting development from Vodafone Germany, which revealed two Vodafone-branded Android tablets at the IFA tech event this week – the Vodafone Smart Tab 7 and Smart Tab 10.
Both run Android 3.2 on a 1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm processor, with 1280×800 displays, and from what we can work out using our fading GCSE German, there will be versions with 16 and 32GB of internal storage space. To help fulfill our “euro” remit for the month of September, here’s a snippet from the German announcement:
Auf beiden Tablets läuft das Betriebssystem Google Android 3.2 (Honeycomb). Der 1,2 Gigahertz schnelle Dual-Core Prozessor und der ein Gigabyte große Arbeitsspeicher sorgen für eine schnelle Leistung – auch bei anspruchsvollen Anwendungen. Der interne Speicher mit 16 Gigabyte bietet Platz für Fotos, Videos und Dokumente. Bei Bedarf kann die Speicherkapazität mit einer MicroSD-Karte auf 32 GB erweitert werden. Über die UMTS-Übertragungstechnik HSDPA werden Webseiten und Dateien über das leistungsstarke Vodafone-Netz mit bis zu 14,4 Mbit/s geladen. Die maximale Upload-Geschwindigkeit liegt bei 5,76 Mbit/s. Eine WLAN-Schnittstelle ist ebenfalls integriert
And if the German word for “November” is “November”, the two tablets will launch in Germany in… November. Here’s the Vodafone Smart Tab 10:
And the question we always ask at this point is… Huawei or ZTE? Or who else makes 1.2GHZ Qualcomm Honeycomb tablets? We’ll ask the poor Vodafone UK man for a comment on the likelihood of the Smart Tabs launching in the UK.
UPDATE:
We’ve found an English press release. But it still only references a German launch for both tablets at the moment.
Vodafone’s first tablets premiere at the IFA show Berlin
Two tablets with 7 and 10 inch displays to be launched in autumn
Düsseldorf/Berlin, 1 September 2011. Vodafone Germany is launching two Vodafone-branded tablets at the 2011 IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin. The Vodafone Smart Tab will be available in a 7 and 10 inch version. The device will be rolled out in the autumn.
Both tablets come with Google Android 3.2 (Honeycomb) installed. A Qualcomm 1.2 GHz dual-core processor offering 1 GB of RAM guarantees all-round fast performance. 16 GB internal memory provides plenty of space to store photos, videos and documents, and it can be expanded to 32 GB with a MicroSD card.
Vodafone Germany’s HSDPA turbo mobile broadband service can download websites and data via the efficient Vodafone network at rates of up to 14.4 mbps, with a maximum upload speed of 5.76 mbps. The tablets also have an integrated WLAN interface.
The Vodafone Smart Tab 7 weighs 391 grams, is 11.4 millimetres slim and fits in almost any jacket pocket. The Vodafone Smart Tab 10’s 10 inch display provides even more space for multimedia applications. Both tablets are additionally equipped with 5 megapixel cameras on the back and 2 megapixel cameras on the front. Their displays both have 1280 x 800 pixel resolutions. The Vodafone Smart Tabs are scheduled to go on sale at retail outlets in Germany at the end of November. Pricing will be announced closer to the time.
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Vlad
/ January 26, 2012This tablet has already launched in the U.K, france, germany, romania, hungary and is even launching in the U.S.
It’s a great product that doesn’t receive even a fragment of the attention it deserves.
charles
/ February 18, 2013Biggest rubbish I ever got never again I will buy Vodafone in my life
I am a new supporter of Samsung from now on you just lost a costumer for life
Adrian68
/ February 18, 2013Hmmmm, well I’ve just read a couple of reviews of the UK spec tab and it says that the screen is 600 x 1024 and is a single core 1Gb processor 4.0.4 ICS. It’s made by Lenovo,
The only things it has over say the Nexus 7 is that it has a micro sd slot and being under £200 for a 3G version, but it has 4Gb.
Unless VF UK are bringing these over replacing the somewhat under powered one they’re currently peddling, also I hope that they’re going to release it with a version of JellyBean too