Processorontwerper MIPS has an Android tablet announced, powered by a MIPS-architecture-based soc. The tablet has a screen diagonal of 7″, running on Android 4.0 and is only 100 dollars.
The Ainovo Novo7 was developed in cooperation with processorfabrikant Ingenic that the JZ4770-soc for the device provides. This singlecorechip running at 1GHz and is based on the XBurst-chipontwerp of MIPS Technologies. Up until now it runs roughly all of the Android hardware on chips that have the ARM architecture to use. The JZ4770 is linked to a GC860 gpu of the company, Vivante and can easily handle 1080p video decoding.
The tablet features a 7″touchscreen that supports multitouch. The resolution of the screen is not known. Furthermore, support for wi-fi, bluetooth, hdmi, usb 2.0 and micro-sd cards. Both the front and rear is a 2 megapixel camera. If your operating system has MIPS Android 4.0 is chosen, and the manufacturer claims to be the first tablet to release with the latest edition of Android. The Ainovo Novo7 is approved by Google and therefore has access to the Android Market and Google applications, including Gmail, Talk, Maps, and Music.
The tablet is currently only available in China and will cost converted to about $ 100. MIPS is planning on the tablet to other countries where it is under the name of various manufacturers will be sold. Or the tablet also comes to the Netherlands, is not yet known. The company wants in the future in addition to the 7″model 8″ and 9″variants release.
