This is the PlayBase. It’s a new 7″ Android tablet from Singaporean manufacturer Karuma, which plans to start selling it direct, to you, though its web site, with the first units arriving in “early December” for a price of £169.
It’ll arrive with a 1.2GHz processor alongside 1GB of RAM, lading the maker to claim it’ll be “upgradeable” to both Android 3.0 and 4.0. Which tells us this actually arrives with Android 2.3 and you’d better hope they can be bothered creating any future updates.
PlayBase is following the Andy Pad model, with a web site currently up and teasing a 14-day countdown until pre-orders launch. In fact, it’s all very similar to the Andy Pad launch. Would it be crazy to suggest this is being organised by the same people/person?
You can register your interest over at http://www.play-base.com should you have any interest. Here’s the simple list of tech highlights from the maker:
Key features and specifications of the PlayBase® include:
7″ LCD, 800 x 600 resolution display, capacitive touch screen with full multi-touch display
1.2 GHz single-core processor
Built-in Wi-Fi
8GB of NAND flash
Up to 32GB Micro SD card
Multimedia options, including music, photos, video recording and playback
RAM : 1G DDR3
Output: Micro USB, Earphones
Dimensions: 204mm ×122m × 9.7mm
Weight: 325g
Stereo speakers
Front-facing camera
Accelerometer
Up to 5 hours of battery life, 60 hours on standby
It’s smooth to use, the 1080p display is sharp, clear and bright, the device is extremely light and thin and therefore very pocketable and portable — much more so than other 5-inch phones we’ve used. And yet… we’re a bit unimpressed by the overall package…
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