Chinese tablet maker Ainol is stepping up from its ICS-running Novo 7 to the Novo 7 Crystal, a new dual-core 1.5GHz model running Jelly Bean for $139. Below the hood is an Amlogic 8726-M6 Cortex A9 processor, a Mali 400 GPU, 1GB of RAM and 8GB of int…
It’s a world’s first coming from a company you’ve never heard of — if you live outside of China, anyway. Taking Google’s newly minted OS and slipping it into an affordable chassis, Ainovo’s Novo 7 Basic could very well be a sleeper hit among the tech…
Nope, that’s not a typo — we just got our hands on a $79 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet. The folks from MIPS popped by the Engadget stage to talk about the budget device. The Ainovo Nova7 Paladin is available now in China, so if you actually want to get…
Remember that curious $100, ICS-touting, Novo 7 tablet we saw back at the beginning of the month? Until now, the Ainovo (aka Ainol) branded device was a bit of a gambler’s punt, with some Chinese sites charging a suspicion-arousing $60 shipping fee….
Just as we were geeking out to the Jaguar 7′s Ice Cream Sandwich demo and anxiously awaiting the Transformer Prime, Ingenic and MIPS completely took us by surprise by announcing the Ainol-branded NOVO7, the very first commercially available tablet…
