Hikari iFrame Comes Back from the Dead for NTT Japan
Around this time last year, we learned about a Japanese Android tablet that – at the time – looked AWESOME. Since then, many other offerings passed us by and a look into the future is much more promising, but the Hikari iFrame is finally on sale in Japan for NTT customers. Specs? But of course: it rocks a 7-inch touch screen with a WVGA resolution, Android 2.1, WiFi G, a USB port and SD card slot, functions as a digital picture frame and alarm clock (as can any Android device, really) and will have its own app store with 50 apps available initially.
If you want access to the apps, users will have to pay $2.50 every month. (Quite the odd way to go, but I’m not familiar with Japanese structure.) It can be had from NTT for $290 or rented on a month-to-month basis at $3.80 per month. (All currency translated from Japanese yen to the United States dollar.)
[Keitai Watch via CrunchGear]