Verizon Wireless is now selling its very own tablet branded under its name. Following a series of leaks, the carrier announced the Ellipsis 7 tablet Tuesday morning. It’s an Android tablet that looks like it was designed to compete with affordable 7-inch tablets like the Nexus 7 and the Kindle Fire HDX. The Ellipsis 7 has a 1280 x 800, 7-inch IPS display, 8GB of storage, 1GB of RAM, and an unspecified 1.2GHz quad-core processor. The carrier says it will go on sale on November 7th for $249.99 off-contract, which makes it a bit more than the Nexus 7, which starts at $229 directly from Google. But the specifications of this inexpensive Android tablet are hardly the most interesting thing about the Ellipsis 7. The tablet represents a very unusual move. With its own tablet, Verizon is competing with the devices from other manufacturers — like Apple and Samsung — that it sells in its stores.
