It has pretty basic specs, as you'd expect for something at this price point: a 1.2-GHz single-core, Cortex-A8 processor, an 800-by-480 LCD screen, 512MB of RAM, and 8GB of storage plus a MicroSD card slot. It lacks the Android Market or Google's apps, offering the Amazon AppStore instead. The tablet has a single VGA front-facing camera, and an HDMI output port. Velocity Micro is pretty hacker-friendly, too, so expect this tablet to be relatively easily modded. The slightly larger Cruz T510 is a slim tablet, only 0.35 inches thick, with a 9.7-mm screen. Velocity Micro said the tablet will cost under $249. Best known as a maker of high-quality, value-priced PCs, Velocity Micro has also made e-readers and Android tablets for a few years now.We reviewed the company's Cruz T408 and criticized it for having a low-quality screen, old OS, and lack of Google apps. They’ve got a pair of budget tablets that won’t really blow anyone away, but their new Shine pico projector looks really nice. Both run Android 4.0, mercifully. Any tablets at CES that don’t are plain crazy. Then there’s the Shine, a small projector that’s certainly bigger than the early, ~20-lumen pico-projectors, but definitely smaller than the loud, hot, 1000-lumen “real” projectors. Price? “Under $400,” which like $399. But we’ll see Then there’s the little VMUltra drive – optical drive, 500GB of storage, and a few USB hubs to boot.
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