Advent Android tablets set to hit the Dixons Group stores shortly

[Guest BooToo]

Look what you get today when trying to access Curry's website...

Site currently down for essential maintenance

To improve your shopping experience with Currys, we are further upgrading our website. Unfortunately this means that the website is currently unavailable. Please try again later.

Are they doing a new release the Apple style or they just have a poor IT Department incapable to avoid maintenance downtime ;-)

Edited October 26, 2010 by BooToo

[Guest Matrix Mike]

Look what you get today when trying to access Curry's website...

Site currently down for essential maintenance

To improve your shopping experience with Currys, we are further upgrading our website. Unfortunately this means that the website is currently unavailable. Please try again later.

Are they doing a new release the Apple style or they just have a poor IT Department incapable to avoid maintenance downtime ;-)

Same on the PC World and Dixons websites :P

[Guest Chevvy]

Same on the PC World and Dixons websites :P

Anybody tried ringing any stores to see if they have stock?

[Guest Matrix Mike]

Anybody tried ringing any stores to see if they have stock?

After my encounter in person I think I will give a the phone a miss :P

[Guest SilentMobius]

PC World site is back up... nothing new though.

I'll bet we'll hear from out PC World spies when they have them in the warehouse but they're not going to get them in stores before then.

[Guest retrend]

Cant wait for this, flaws and all.

lol@ people expecting minimum wage shop staff to have a clue about anything.

[Guest Bobbler]

Cant wait for this, flaws and all.

lol@ people expecting minimum wage shop staff to have a clue about anything.

The amount you earn has NOTHING to do with a persons knowledge level does it?

Kevrae - one of the "minimum wage shop staff" from PC World has taken time out of his day to give many here a bit of inside information on stock etc and didn't have to,

[Guest ScaredyCat]

Early spec suggested that OTG was enabled on the full-size USB port (for keyboards and the like) so that may allow usb tethering with a Nexus One running CM6. Which would be much more battery efficient than wi-fi sharing.

You don't need CM6 at all to do USB tethering - Froyo supports it directly.

SC

[Guest SilentMobius]

You don't need CM6 at all to do USB tethering - Froyo supports it directly.

SC

Yeah, but plenty of networks have neutered it in subsidised phones.

Getting quite ansy now, no news isn't always good news. _Really_ looking forward to this

[Guest P.K]

Do we have any new information at all regarding the Vega tablet? I have been scouring the web for the last few days and have found absolutely nothing. Even in PC World and Dixons no one seems to know anything about these tablets. Its hard to believe that one of the hottest gadgets of the year will be released in just 5 days.

Do we have any news on stock, marketing or availability?

Edit: Also, what is the story with its 3G modem? Some sites say its included, some say not. It clearly has the housing for a sim card but I think its just a dummy slot until they add the 3G chip next year. Does anyone have any firm details on this?

Edited October 27, 2010 by P.K

[Guest john newhouse]

i am desperate for these tablets to start shipping. i really want to replace my laptop for web browsing and media watching asap.

i think the hardest thing is going to be waiting until some reviews of release hardware is available before i decide between the archos 101 and the vega

Edited October 27, 2010 by john newhouse

[Guest BooToo]

Do we have any new information at all regarding the Vega tablet? I have been scouring the web for the last few days and have found absolutely nothing. Even in PC World and Dixons no one seems to know anything about these tablets. Its hard to believe that one of the hottest gadgets of the year will be released in just 5 days.

Do we have any news on stock, marketing or availability?

Edit: Also, what is the story with its 3G modem? Some sites say its included, some say not. It clearly has the housing for a sim card but I think its just a dummy slot until they add the 3G chip next year. Does anyone have any firm details on this?

You are joking right???

What do you think we have been doing here?

My advice to you: read the posts from the beginning and you will find pictures, video, detailed spec and inside info from a Dixon folk...

Edited October 28, 2010 by BooToo

[Guest BooToo]

5 days to go until the 1st of Nov

Still no Tab on Dixon and Curry's website... :P

[Guest MarkoUK]

5 days to go until the 1st of Nov

Still no Tab on Dixon and Curry's website... :P

Yeah, it's a bit suspicious and very frustrating. My pockets are completely holed now with the length of time my £250 has been in them.

Maybe we won't see it online until after the Vega is released in store? I'm not sure how hot the Dixons group are with products like this, I don't know if the iPad appeared online first or instore first. That would be a good benchmark.

I had a look at the wayback machine but nothing in there for PC World etc after 2005.

This waiting is destroying my brain.

[Guest P.K]

Robert Dyas are now doing tablets. Here is the 7"Intempo. Its got a lower spec, older OS and higher price than the Advent Amico and its £199. Its in the shops right now. Its probably worth less than half what they are charging. Within a month everyone from Dixons to Greggs will be flogging their own rebadged Android tablet

http://www.robertdyas.co.uk/product.php?product_id=151247

Edited October 28, 2010 by P.K

[Guest Matrix Mike]

Robert Dyas are now doing tablets. Here is the 7"Intempo. Its got a lower spec, older OS and higher price than the Advent Amico and its £199. Its in the shops right now. Its probably worth less than half what they are charging. Within a month everyone from Dixons to Greggs will be flogging their own rebadged Android tablet

http://www.robertdyas.co.uk/product.php?product_id=151247

Play have a Froyo 7" one as well http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/16596932/And...mp;utm_content=

Plus this

http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/16255707/Dis...mp;utm_content=

[Guest shutdown]

seems odd that there's no hype from dixons to promote the tablet. meanwhile the galaxy tab is eating up all the headlines.

come on dixons/pcworld...give us more news please...or at least a real release date? or maybe the date has slipped

[Guest shutdown]

i stand corrected:

http://www.dixons.co.uk/gbuk/Advent_Vega-1...commercial.html

[Guest shutdown]

and even worse news:

http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2010/10/28/ad...a-release-date/

[Guest MarkoUK]

i stand corrected:

http://www.dixons.co.uk/gbuk/Advent_Vega-1...commercial.html

How did you find that?

[Guest charlie_82]

and even worse news:

http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2010/10/28/ad...a-release-date/

14 November sucks! But still better than December or January :P

The ad is definitely promising

[Guest Bobbler]

14 November sucks! But still better than December or January :P

The ad is definitely promising

It does, though it's my birthday that day, but it now means I wont be getting this for it as the wife will not let me have nothing to open on the day :D .

Also I wouldn't be surprised that's not going to be the shelf date either. Do people release products on Sundays? Seems a bit of an odd day to do such a thing.

[Guest MarkoUK]

How did you find that?

Duh, I've been looking at the 3 sites for a while but missed that banner today!

Currys: http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/Advent_Vega-1...commercial.html

PC World: http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/Advent_Vega-...commercial.html

[Guest john newhouse]

Damn, well if the Archos 101 gets some decent reviews from users who have the hardware in their hands prior to mid November, then i will probably just end up getting that.

to be honest, i was leaning that way anyway, as i like to have the extra storage options that the archos gives me.

[Guest P.K]

14 November sucks! But still better than December or January :P

The ad is definitely promising

Gutted! I want to be put into a coma for the next two and a half weeks.