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Toys R Us Black Friday Sale Includes $140 Android Tablet

For those of you who don't want to shell out hundreds of dollars for anor , Sylvania has unveiled a budget tablet, which Toys R Us will offer for $140 as part of its Black Friday sale.

The device is a no-frills, 7-inch tablet running Android 2.1 that apparently made its debut this week. It doesn't even have an official name beyond "Sylvania 7" MID Tablet Wireless Mobile Internet Device." But according to specs posted online, it includes a touch screen with 800-by-480 pixels, 512MB of RAM and 2GB of Flash memory, expandable up to 16GB via a micro SD card.

It also includes two mini USB slots, HDMI output, Wi-Fi Rieee 802.11 b/g, and promises six hours of battery life.

It's currently available on the Web sites forand Sears for $149.99, down from $179.99. According to the Toys R Us , however, the Sylvania device will sell for $139.99. The deal, according to the store, will be available from 10pm on Thanksgiving Day until 1pm on Black Friday.

The Toys R Us Black Friday sale will also include a Coby 7-inch portable DVD player for $49.99, an 8GBMP3 player with video for $49.99, acamera for $99.99, a Vivitar 10.1 megapixel digital camera for $39.99, and a Coby 7-inch digital picture frame for $24.99.

The Sylvania device is not the only cheap tablet on the market. Last month, Cherrypalits $180 Android tablet, the CherryPad. It's a 7-inch, Android 2.1–running tablet that weighs a little over a pound, has built-in Wi-Fi, an 800-MHz processor, resistive touch screen, and 2GB internal memory with expandable slot. For more details, seeand the slideshow below.