7-inch Eden Tab launches in Japan this weekend, could become the Xiaomi Tablet

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For those who've been keeping an eye on Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun, you should already know that after the [Xiaomi Phone's][3] successful launches (most recently in collaboration with [China Telecom][4]), the man's been pondering over whether the Chinese tablet market is worth tapping into. Funnily enough, it turned out that during CES, Kingsoft's Japanese subsidiary Mobile In Style announced the 7-inch Eden Tab, which just so happened to be co-developed by Xiaomi and shares the same ODM, Inventec, as the Xiaomi Phone. This is no surprise considering Lei Jun also chairs both Xiaomi and Kingsoft, and the two companies have announced partnerships before; though it doesn't seem like this tablet uses the former's MIUI software. Read on to find out more.

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