You might not have heard of the Orange Tabbee before, but if you peeped our coverage of the O2 Joggler photo frame cum calendar earlier in the year, you’ll know just what to expect. It’s a rival tabletop tablet with web browsing and multimedia skills, and we’ve just gone hands-on with it! See all the photos right here in our gallery.
Network giant Orange quietly slipped out the Orange Tabbee tablet in France a little while back, but we just stumbled into a working model at the Symbian tradeshow right here in London, so we grabbed a few shots for your delectation and took it for a prod.
At 7-inches, the Wi-Fi enabled Orange Tabbee is much wider than the O2 Joggler, and although it’s not as thick, the height nod the hefty base station give it a much bigger profile. It’s stuffed with Opera-based widgets though as well as web browsing so it’s much more powerful.
From our brief play with the Orange Tabbee, we were impressed by the zippy web browser, as well as the TV and radio streaming apps (they were French only alas), although it was surprisingly slow when it came to loading up pictures for slideshow mode. The screen was also nowhere near as vivid as the Joggler, but if we’re honest, its skills pitch it against the Toshiba JournE slate too. It’s just a shame it won’t juggle every single AV device in your pad like Tosh’s tablet will.
Unlike the JournE though, there’s no word on whether the Orange Tabbee is headed to the UK, but we’ll let you know if that changes, and in the meantime, you can wait it out with these hands-on photos!
Out TBC | £TBC | Orange
