T-Mobile Springboard now available for $430

By Tyler Lee on 11/22/2011 08:18 PDT

If T-Mobile’s offering of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus wasn’t the tablet you were looking for, the good news is that according to T-Mobile’s Facebook page, the T-Mobile Springboard tablet is officially on sale from T-Mobile for $430.

The Springboard for those who may have forgotten, is a tablet that has been manufactured by Huawei. Under the hood we can expect to find a 1.2GHz processor, 16GB of internal storage, a 5MP/1.3MP rear/front-facing camera, HSPA+ connectivity with a 7” 1280×800 display. It will also be running on Android’s Honeycomb 3.x but no word if there are plans to bring Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 onto it.

Alternatively if you do not wish to blow $430 all at once, T-Mobile is offering a payment plan on a two year contract where you pay $170 after a $50 mail-in rebate, with the remaining cost of the tablet to be paid off during the period of the contract. If you’re interested in picking up the tablet for yourself, you can head on down to T-Mobile’s website.

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Android Android is mobile operating system from Google. The software was originally built by a company called Android Inc, that was purchased by Google in 2005. From its modest debuts, Android has become a powerhouse that powers not only smartphones and tablet, but a host of other less high-profile devices and gadgets. Although Android is not a community-driven project, Google does release the source code as open-source under the Apache license.

HSPA+ is also known as Evolved High-Speed Packet Access. It is a mobile broadband protocol that was defined by the 3GPP standard, release 7. In Theory, the HSPA+ data rate can go up to 84 Mbps (Megabits per second) downstream (to the mobile), and 22Mbps upstream (back to the tower). These numbers are achieved by using multiple streams, so they should be considered theoretical and peak performance numbers. The HSPA+ specifications support up to 168Mbps of theoretical peak rate. Although many HSPA+ carriers call it 4G, it is very different from 4G LTE.

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