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T-Mobile's 7-inch SpringBoard Android Tablet.(Credit:T-Mobile)
The U.S. carrier T-Mobile announced plans today to sell to twoAndroidtablets with 4G networking abilities in coming weeks, its own 7-inch SpringBoard and Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1.
Each will come with the newest version of Google's tablet-oriented "Honeycomb" incarnation of the Android operating system, version 3.2, and will go on sale "in time for the holidays," the company said.
Samsung's 10.1-inch tablet first debuted months ago, but without 4G networking abilities. It's at the heart of a swirling collection of patent infringement lawsuits with Apple, whose iOS-powerediPad models dominate today's tablet market.
The SpringBoard, with a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, is built by Huawei, T-Mobile said. It's got a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera that can record 720p video and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. Its smaller size lets it fit into a jacket pocket.
Installed media applications Blockbuster on Demand, Netflix, and T-Mobile TV. Also built in is TeleNav GPS Navigator app for turn-by-turn navigation.
T-Mobile--the first carrier in the world to offer an Android device--didn't announce pricing information.
T-Mobile plans to sell a 4G version of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android tablet.(Credit:T-Mobile)
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