Just announced: AdelaVoice’s Lighthouse SQ7, “the first portable social media device.” In reality, it’s a tablet for surfing the net that handicaps Facebook and Twitter with voice-recognition input.

The device uses a 7″ touchscreen, boasts 800×480 resolution, built-in WiFi, 1GB of flash storage, and a rechargeable battery that provides 5 hours of constant use. It weighs about a pound, and is 7.8″ x 4.7″ x .94″. It runs on Linux Ubuntu with a proprietary web browser using WebKit. It doesn’t currently run Flash animations.
The twist is the device’s built-in voice recognition, which is an original piece of software constructed by AdelaVoice. …read more

While the world continues to wait for Apple to announce its inevitable tablet device, its competitors keep jumping into the marketplace with Internet/media touchscreen tablets of their own. Archos is the latest to up the ante, with its new Archos 5 Internet Tablet, which runs on Google’s mobile operating system, Android.

The Archos 5 comes with a full list of features — WiFi, 3G bluetooth, built-in GPS, a multitude of media formats codecs — but the real story is Android. Because the device’s use of Google’s OS means that the Archos 5 will eventually have access to Android apps. The device …read more