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Hands on: T-Mobile Vega Android tablet review

(TECH RADAR) - Away from the CES 2010 show floor, T-Mobile gave us a sneak peek at a product that will be coming later in the year: an ultra-thin 15″ Android touch screen tablet codenamed Vega.

This isn’t just another Android device for the sake of doing something that isn’t a PC or a tablet to take advantage of the hype about whatever Apple might or might not launch; while it’s got a web browser and it will play YouTube videos and work with BBC iPlayer, the main application is a shared family calendar for getting everyone organised. And who would buy that?

Busy mums who usually have to keep track of school events, holidays, dentists appointments and the rest and remind the rest of the family about them and who wouldn’t run upstairs to check an online calendar on their notebook but would use a touch screen device in the kitchen, says T-Mobile’s John King. (And yes, he freely admits it’s a gender stereotype, but it’s what customers say).

Vega helps you track the family with a shared calendar app using Google Calendars but with an interface optimised for touch and adding some helpful features for family calendars. You have a colour-coded calendar for each family member – and calendars for recurring events like clubs and activities – with photos of everyone, and the default view shows all the calendars in columns side by side.

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