Nvidia has a plan to make cheap Android tablets a lot more powerful. The company will launch a platform this year called "Kai" that will let device makers bring quad-core tablets to market for $199.
This fall, the tech market will witness a perfect storm as three major technologies and industry forces converge to deliver a whole host of new products for consumers.
Google CEO Larry Page has lent some credence to rumors of a cheap, Google-branded Android tablet, saying in an earnings call that the company is focused on the low end of the market.
The biggest selling point for both versions of the new Galaxy Tab 2 is the price: $250 for the 7-inch tablet available April 22 and $400 for the 10.1-inch version available May 13.
Although there’s no shortage of Android tablets on the market, Lenovo’s upcoming IdeaTab S2109 is rare in its use of iPad-like proportions.
The Google tablet formerly known as Asus MeMo 370T may be pushed back to a July release date; Apple is rumored to be testing a 7.85-inch iPad.
In one of the more bizarre cases of Olympic Games sponsorship I’ve seen, Acer is stamping the Olympic rings logo on the back of its next tablet, the Iconia Tab A510.
With every million iPads that Apple sells, Google’s Android tablet problem becomes more of a crisis. To date, not a single proper Android tablet has seen mainstream success, and even in aggregate they’re not nearly as popular as the iPad.
According to Cnet’s Roger Cheng, who attended a media event at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung executive Hankil Yoon says that the company is “not doing very well in the tablet market.”
Until now, the general sentiment has been that Barnes & Noble’s 7-inch Nook Tablet is a great option for a low-price Android tablet… if only it didn’t cost $50 more than Amazon’s 7-inch Kindle Fire tablet. Starting today, there’s a new version of the Nook Tablet available for $199, putting it directly in line with the Kindle Fire’s $199 price tag.
Asus is promising what seems like the impossible with the MeMo 370T, a 7-inch Android Ice Cream Sandwich tablet with a quad-core processor for $250. I got my hands on a prototype during CES 2012, and I’m happy to say it’s real, and it could be spectacular.
