I am very excited to see that the Android team at Huawei towers have been busy getting ready to ship the first official Android 7inch Tablet. Official is good, because it means that in addition to its Android 2.1 OS, it will be rocking the official Android market and officially licensed google apps. This is the first android device to market that sports a near Ipad size 7inch screen and brings the Android OS to its largest screen to date. With a default resolution of 800 × 480 pixels there is lots more room to run your favourite Android Apps, in their full high res glory.

Online Store Expansys have been selected to be the official exclusive UK launch partner for the device when it launches towards the end of the month. 

Key point Affordability!

The Ipad may have been the first to market, however the Huawei s7 looks set to be the first truly mass market tablet by being priced at a pocket friendly price point.   Priced at only £299.99, it comes in at more than £130.00 cheaper than the basic Ipad Wifi only model but includes a lot of hardware that even the top of the range Ipad doesn’t have.

Ipad beating features

The Huawei S7 tablet comes equipped with all the now standard Android fare such as gravity, light sensor and 3G which are part of the premium Ipad package. On top of this it also includes a front facing camera, compass, removable battery and expandable Micros SD Card support all of which are surprisingly missing from Apple’s Ipad 3G  To have all these built into this handset, really gives a fortune of opportunities to take tablet computing to the next level that users have come to expect from Android.

Currently the specs from Expansys don’t list it, but I have independently confirmed that GPS is included in the package.

Big Screen Android

Bearing in mind that none of these apps are optimized for the larger screen size at the moment , I am very excited to see if the apps improve productivity by taking advantage of the larger screen real estate.

The Tablet is due to hit Expansys in the next few weeks, you can pre-order the table by visiting the link below

Huawei S7 Android Tablet (WiFi, 3G, 7-inch Screen) – eXpansys UK.

Edit: The Expansys blog have posted their first hand’s on review with the device- check it out here:

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