G-Slate tablet lands on T-Mobile

By on Apr 20, 2011 at 10:01 AM
3D April 20, 2011

T-Mobile’s G-Slate, the first tablet to pack a 4G radio out-of-the-box, is now available from T-Mobile. The G-Slate has an 8.9-inch 3D display, runs Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), can record 3D video, and sports a NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor clocked at 1GHz. We found the Android user interface to be a bit sluggish during our review, but we hope that T-Mobile fixes that snafu with future software updates. Android enthusiasts should still find a lot to love in the G-Slate, which is available online and in T-Mobile stores for $529.99 with a new two-year contract.

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  • Anonymous

    This time I honestly think i’ll be waiting for Samsung with their 8.9 incher.

  • Anonymous

    lol 529 with a 2 year contract.

    pathetic

  • Anonymous

    Correction: that’s not the “Android” ‘user interface’; that’s LG’s “User Interface”.

  • Senor Chang

    Why did BGR fail to specify that the ’3D’ here is analyphic (sp?) 3D as in… red and blue tint glasses?

    go back to the review and it states,
    “The G-Slate features 3D video recording capability and it ships with a pair 3D glasses and a 3D video player. This is not a glasses-free 3D experience like the upcoming HTC EVO 3D, the LG Optimus 3D or the Nintendo 3DS, but it works reasonably well. In the end it’s just a novelty though, and I enjoyed the standard 1080p HD videos I recorded with the G-Slate much more than the 3D videos.”

    In this modern age of 3D television w/ active shutters and various technologies, doesn’t anyone else think this misleads people into thinking we’re talking about the same kind of 3D you would get from a television? how many people who do like this novelty are going to open that box up and see a pair of red/blue glasses and think, “WTF is this 1950s shit??”.

    Yeah, I know its just a gimmick, but its a SELLING point and i want to know if this slate is capable of other 3D modes (assuming one purchases the correct glasses?). No review seems to delve into that.

  • Anonymous

    The G-Slate is NOT the first 4G tablet. The Dell Streak 7 holds that distinction.

  • Bored2nite

    Although this isn’t the perfect device, its still gorgeous… and in reality a tablet is for convenience around the house instead of this bulky @ss laptop in my lap…. I am for one that understands that only my phone will be going places with me, but i love knowing I can pick up this thing sit on the couch and enjoy an app or two, web browse, and watch a video without needing my laptop burning my lap.

    the price i agree…. to high up there, but so was the galaxy tab when it launched and then it will go down I’m sure. I got mine for an awesome deal, and now its just waiting for it to arrive in the mail.

    On the OS, yes its new, has nothing that amazing right now. I for one am tired that people expect something to be perfect just because iOS is at that point (yes i said it they r doing the right thing i just hate that company) but if we rememeber the iPad was NOT at that point when it launched.

    I love seeing things grow… just like my HD7… the WP7 OS missed things from the beginning, but now apps r growing over night from its original 2000 to 13000 in 6 months, to PROMISING updates (i have received my NoDo update and have enjoy the improvements) to the future Mango update. What this has to do with the G-Slate is Google knows what it has to do, and luckily this UI-Free tablet whether thru the hands of developers on XDA, or google themselves will get amazing updates and be one of the best tablets with due time.

    I have been playing with the G-Slate, and only the home screen was a bit laggish… apps and web broswering it self was fast as hell…. and it looks amazing even tho its not rocking a super amoled screen.

  • Anonymous

    Yet another device with its own data plan. So profligate! Why hasn’t someone (like LG) designed a 10-inch diagonal tablet with a phone-sized pocket-dock on the back of it for a really slim phone (like the size of an LG Black) that actually provides a wired data connection when docked, and provides a wi-fi hotspot when undocked that the tablet (among other devices) can use (or not, depending on whether there are better, cheaper wi-fi connections available at the moment)?

    If you want to travel with just the phone, just take the phone, and leave the tablet at home. But if you want to travel with the tablet, the phone fits snugly in the back of the tablet, so until you pull it out of its dock, you are traveling with just one device, and more importantly, just one voice/data plan!

    I want this, and I want this now!

    • Tony

      you mean like some osrt of “bridge” between the two?

      • Anonymous

        Yeah, a dock in the back of the tablet that the phone could fit into, so when docked, the phone fits into a phone-sized pocket and the back of it is flush with the back of the tablet. The dock could provide a hard-wired pass-through connection to the phone’s network and telephony features when docked, and use the tablet’s bluetooth to connect to a phone headset; and it could have its own bluetooth and provide wi-fi service to the tablet (and/or other devices) when it’s undocked. This means you have redundant wi-fi and bluetooth radios in both devices, but only the cell phone unit has to have a 3g/4g radio.

        I think that the only thing that has been stopping this from happening so far has been inadeqaute miniaturization (and maybe a lack of imagination), but seeing how much empty air space there is in the current iPad and Xoom, it seems to me we’ve passed that point.

  • Neoprimal

    Liked it until I saw the price. Yoiks. The reviews aren’t stellar to start with, then to price it at $529 WITH a 2 year contract is just asking for failure for an Android tablet. I mean, sure the Xoom hasn’t failerd per se and 100000 units is a nice number for sales, but I’m fairly certain these tablet folks are trying to competitively price ‘higher’ with Apple and that’s not possible for non-Apple folks. You could gold coat poop and slap an Apple logo on it and get a million Apple fans and people wanting that “I’m cool!” factor to buy it, this is the power of Apple. Sure a handful of folks will buy the LG but savvy users are more than likely going to sit it out for either Samsung’s 2nd gen Galaxy Tab(s), the Acer Iconia Tab or the Asus Transformer Pad, all running similar guts, all rumored to be here in late April to June and all rumored at between a $400-500 price point for similar hardware. By then I’m sure the price would have fallen pretty drastically to match the market, but by then it’ll be too late because people will have the illusion that the other tablets are “new”, even though they contain the same guts and similar hardware.

    Tsk, tsk, tsk, LG.

  • zps

    $529 with 2 year contract!? f’n crazy.

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