Did you all know Verizon was making their own branded tablet? I must have missed the memo on that one somewhere. Apparently Verizon thought they should jump on the device making bandwagon and created the Ellipsis 7 tablet. It is a 7 inch tablet that Verizon will carry and start selling on November 7th for $249.99.
So, what is in the Ellipsis 7? Â It will be full of Verizon software and sport 4G LTE radios, which means contract. Â It will have Amazon Kindle, Redbox Instant, Plants vs. Zombies and Verizon Messages ready to go out of the box. It houses an unspecified quad-core processor clocked at 1.2GHz, 1GB of RAM, 8GB onboard storage (with a micro SD card expansion slot) and the resolution is 1280 x 800 (216 ppi). It is launching with Android 4.2.2 and has a 4,000 mAh built-in battery. (The Verge).
The remainder of their announcement does lead to more interesting thoughts though.
The Ellipsis 7 is the first product from Verizon Wireless in the Ellipsis family.
Sounds like Verizon might be getting into the hardware game pretty heavily. No doubt there will be more tablets and potentially phones to come out of big red. Fairly interesting approach for a carrier. Â If I was a betting man, I’d say it will be pretty locked down and OTAs will be bleak.
Anyone out there going to check it on the 7th?
Via Verizon
