HP Offering Slate7 Shimajiro model in Japanese Schools

Hewlett Packard Japan Ltd has started accepting orders for the Slate7 Shimajiro model meant for young children. Shipping will commence February 20 and it will carry  a price tag of 19,800 Yen (USD 193), plus shipping charges (2,100 Yen). Early buyers will get a liquid crystal cleaner as purchase bonus. This offer is valid till March 31 only.

HP Offering Slate7 Shimajiro model in Japanese Schools

This special Shimajiro model adds a variety of apps via Shimajiro club. On the hardware side, the tablet is same as the vanilla Slate7. It does however comes with a silicon case as shown in the pictures.

HP Slate7 Shimajiro

Specs wise, it can rival any Android tablet out there, thanks to its powerful Nvidia Tegra 4 processor, stylus, 1GB RAM, 16GB flash storage, and 7 inch IPS display packing 1280×800 pixel resolution. It runs Android 4.2 jelly bean operating system.

Find more information about this offer on benesse.ne.jp (Japanese). Here is the HP’s press release (Japanese)

Blaupunkt Endeavour 800 QC, 1000 QC Specs Price

A little over a year and a half ago, a German company Blaupunkt decided to try their hand in the tablet market. The same company has churned out two new Android tablets – Endeavour Endeavour 800 QC and 1000 QC.

Blaupunkt Endeavour 800 QC, 1000 QC Specs

Quad Core tablets

Both Blaupunkt Endeavour 800 QC and 1000 QC run Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean operating system, which works seamlessly and smoothly on its quad core Amlogic AML8726-MX processor with a clock frequency of 1.2 GHz and 1-gigabyte of RAM.

Blaupunkt Endeavour 800 QC, 1000 QC Specs Price

Excellent range of communication radios

Communication and network radios include standard N Wi-Fi, USB port, mini HDMI output, and Bluetooth 4.0. Both tablets also have a slot for a micro SD card, 2 megapixel main camera, and display resolution at 1024 x 768 pixels.

Wonderful battery life

Smaller Blaupunkt 800 Endeavour QC will offer potential buyers with a diagonal display of eight inches, front video camera, and a battery with a capacity of 5000 mAh. Tablet is priced at 149 euros and  weighs of 428 grams and dimensions of 198.6 x 150 x 9.1 mm.

Endeavour 1000 QC features a 9.7-inch display, 2 megapixel camera and a rechargeable battery that provides up to eight hours on a single battery charge (8200 mAh). For this model, suggested retail price is set at 179 euros.

Asus GameBox Review Specs

The Taiwanese company, Asus is preparing to launch a device called ASUS GameBox which will be a competitor to the portable gaming console with Android from NVIDIA.

asus gamebox review

Full specs of Asus Gamebox

NVIDIA Shield is not available in many European countries which is a good sign for the Taiwanese as it will be able to do good business with it.

Asus Gamebox was spotted in AnTuTu benchmark app from we learnt about most of its specs. It features quad core Nvidia Tegra 4 processor clocked at 1.6 – 1.912 GHz, Android 4.3 jelly bean operating system, Nvidia GeForce GPU, 2 gigabytes of RAM, 8 GB flash storage and resolution of 1280×720 pixels.

Asus Gamebox Review

Since Asus Gamebox is same as Nvidia Shield, the aforementioned review will give all information you would ever need. Benchmark results are already in. Asus Gamebox got 36024 in AnTuTu which is more than enough to play any Android game out there.