It seems that Google and NVIDIA together faced their second setback as a leak on Saturday revealed that Staples was pulling the ViewSonic gTablet from shelves. The Android 2.2 tablet is being shipped away due to a "manufacturing defect" and its display area removed entirely. No indication has been given to the CrunchGear tipster that the gTablet will ever return, and customers seeing this week's flyer will be told that there's no equivalent replacement because of how soon it was brought to market. Neither Staples nor Viewsonic has explained what the flaw was or whether the gTablet would return fixed.

The news of the failure comes just over a month after another prominent withdrawal of another NVIDIA Tegra 2-based tablet. UK retailers pulled the Toshiba Folio 100 after stores received a large number of complaints about both defects and overall poor build quality. Other tablets with the dual-core chip are still on shelves, including the Advent Vega, though it has seen Flash support withdrawn owing to the lack of optimization for the Tegra 2.