Pandigital hasn’t made much of an effort to swathe its Supernova tab in mystery. When the 8-inch LCD slate swept during the FCC earlier this summer, we were privy not just to pictures of the device and its internals, but additionally to the apps that’d be pre-loaded on purchase — GetJar and Barnes & Noble’s Nook app amongst others. So, what are you able to expect for $230 when it lands this month? Well, the company’s forsaken Honeycomb for the soon-to-be outclassed Gingerbread OS, tossed in one-core 1GHz A8 processor, 4GB of storage (expandable to 32GB via microSD slot), WiFi and Bluetooth. It is a cheap, me too Android tablet entry, unquestionably. And with the new outing of a definite budget-priced, ecosystem-friendly tab , we’d suggest you hold off for the better-specced goods. Official PR after the break.
New tablet offers high performance Cortex A8 processor, 8-inch capacitive touchscreen, Adobe® Flash®, built-in Bluetooth and more at a cheap price
DUBLIN, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pandigital today expanded its new line of Android™ media tablets with the Pandigital SuperNova (www.pandigital.com/SuperNova). The SuperNova delivers powerful performance with advanced features and functionality for seamless interactivity with the most recent digital applications and content. The recent tablet would be available to consumers this month for a reasonable $229 MSRP.
The SuperNova is the flagship product in a brand new line of Android tablets from Pandigital. It features an 8-inch capacitive touchscreen, advanced processor, Adobe® Flash®, HDMI-out, built-in Bluetooth, front- and rear-facing cameras, and lots of more features and capabilities for the patron. With the SuperNova whether at work or at play users can surf the online, check email, read the most recent best seller, take a look at popular social media sites, make amends for the inside track or entertainment, study family vacation photos, and more.
The powerful 1GHz Cortex A8 processor with a dedicated graphics engine provides fast response times and enhanced performance for taking part in games, or watching movies and videos. Adobe Flash makes viewing web content more fun by enhancing animation, video, and interactivity to the online pages. The 8-inch capacitive touchscreen with multi-touch technology is incredibly responsive and makes navigating the SuperNova quick and simple whether playing games or posting an update on Facebook. Capturing or video and video conferencing is easy with front and rear facing cameras and integrated microphone. Sharing the thrill of your tablet is straightforward by experiencing it in your TV with the built-in HDMI connectivity. Integrated Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity further expands the peripheral hardware options for users.
Concentrating on ease-of-use and simplicity-of-access for the patron, the SuperNova comes with one-touch access to the Barnes & Noble e-book store, GetJar app store, Facebook, YouTube, personal email, photos, movies, music, videos and more. Users can quickly and simply download and browse the newest books, magazines or newspapers from Barnes & Noble, or choose between GetJar’s thousands of free apps to customise their SuperNova to best fit their digital lifestyle.
“We’re excited to deliver our most comprehensive tablet yet – one which offers some of the advanced features and functionality of better priced tablets – at a value that’s affordable to consumers,” said John Clough, president, Pandigital. “We added some features to the SuperNova that we didn’t offer in previous versions of our tablets, but felt were important to the buyer for this flagship product, including an 8-inch capacitive touchscreen display and integrated Bluetooth.”
Customize the SuperNova with Direct Access to Digital Content
With digital content becoming more prevalent and constantly changing, consumers need to customize and update their devices to best fit their digital lifestyle, making it critical to have instant access to the most recent applications. The Pandigital SuperNova offers seamless connectivity to more of the applications consumers want, including:
Barnes & Noble’s eStore – Quick and convenient access to greater than two million eBooks, newspapers and magazines, a wide selection of free eBooks, and greater than half one million free classics. It is simple to browse, sample, buy, and download published content in seconds. Also, customers can lend many eBooks with family and friends for 14 days.
GetJar – Access thousands of applications from the world’s largest free app store from categories including Education, Social & Messaging, Entertainment, Finance, Food, Games, Health, Search, Lifestyle, Maps, Music, News & Weather, Photos, Productivity, Religion, Shopping, Sports and Travel.
Built-in Wi-Fi and Browser – Access the web and surf the net anywhere a Wi-Fi connection is accessible.
Adobe™ Flash 10.3 – Benefit from the full multimedia web with on-board support
Bluetooth 2.1 – Expands peripheral hardware connectivity options.
Email – Stay involved with friends, family and co-workers using existing email addresses –including support for MS Exchange.
InTouch – Quick one-app view of your Facebook, Twitter, and email accounts in addition topical RSS news feed data.
U-Player – Direct access to popular YouTube videos.
Gallery and Video Player – View and manage photo files, and play and manage MPEG4 video files.
Music – Play and manage music audio files (MP3, WAV and AAC).
Camera – Use front and rear facing cameras to take pictures and video.
ES File Explorer – View and manage files and apps, and back up files to a microSD card.
OfficeSuite Viewer – Open and look at many file formats (DOC, DOCX, TXT, XLS, XLSX, CSV, PPT, PPTX, PPS, PPSX and PDF).
Further enhancing the flexibleness of the SuperNova, Pandigital included several custom-developed applications that offer users with a more intuitive experience. Connecting with and monitoring available Wi-Fi networks is straightforward with the Wi-Fi Connection Wizard. Automated notices of firmware updates and the flexibility to download them on to the tablet via the Wi-Fi connection helps ensure that customers have the most recent technology available. Other useful apps from Pandigital include InTouch for fast access to social networking sites, a personalized calendar, a notes app, a weather app, and an alarm clock with one-touch bedside slideshow, music, and dimming.
Ease-of-Use and contours Enhance Customer Experience
The SuperNova delivers advanced features and functionality, combined with a user-friendly interface to supply a great customer experience that’s affordable at $229. The SuperNova is powered by the Android™ 2.3 operating system and is upgradeable to new Android™ operating system versions. The tablet can be scheduled for future firmware releases as they become available from Pandigital.
Storing your favorite apps, books, movies, music, videos and more is virtually unlimited with the 4GB internal memory and the built-in MicroSD card reader that accepts as much as 32GB memory cards. The built-in mini-USB At the Go (OTG) port provides how to connect on to a pc for straightforward file transfers (Mac and PC compatible), supports plenty of peripherals, similar to both wired and wireless-via-dongle mice and keyboards, hubs, and thumb drives, and may even be used to re-charge the inner battery.
The SuperNova offers a good viewing experience with an 8-inch full-color LCD display with a 600×800 resolution. Besides the back-lit Android™ buttons, the brand new tablet incorporates a capacitive touchscreen with multi-touch support. The orientation sensor automatically adjusts between portrait and landscape mode in most applications when the device is tilted, and the two-Axis Accelerometer is superb for controlling games that need simultaneous steering and acceleration.
Encased in a black housing with a brushed metal look front bezel, the SuperNova has a compact and sleek design measuring 6.13-inches wide, 8.38-inches high and zero.44-inch deep, and weighs 16.6 ounces. It comes with a chargeable Li-ion battery and gets as much as 6 hours of use (performance varies according to use –averaging longer for reading without a Wi-Fi and shorter for continuous streaming video).
Product Availability and Pricing
The Pandigital SuperNova (R80B400/R80B452) Android™ media tablet would be available in mid-October at leading retailers around the U.S. for $229 MSRP.
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