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| Acer Iconia B1 Tablet |
From WSJ (Wall Street journal), the news has come that Acer is planning to make low budget tablet for around $99. The tablet name is Acer Iconia B1. Their major targeters for this tablet are emerging markets including China.
As you all know Acer is multinational hardware and Electronics Corporation situated in New Taipei City, Taiwan. They are premier marketers of laptop, PCs, tablet computers, Smartphones, gadgets etc. They are promoting this tablet for developing markets where user cannot afford high end devices.
Let see what Acer Iconia B1 tablet offers -
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Display | 7-inch |
Resolution | 1,024 x 600 |
Processor | 1.2 GHZ, Dual Core |
Operating System, Storage | Android Jelly Bean, 8 GB |
RAM | 512 MB |
GPU | PowerVR SGX 531 |
More detailed has not been leaked but this looks cheap and fair powerful specially for developing countries.
With the introduction of this super-cheap tablet, Apple iPad mini and Google Nexus 7 will face good competition from Acer Iconia B1.
Although the mini and nexus 7 are high-end device but they are very costly. Thats why to attract user in developing countries they have planned to build this device and get lot of attractions from them due to its cheapness.
What we see from the sources that it apparel has blue trim/backplate. Also it is not confirmed that this cheap device will come to the UK or US. As I said their major target is emerging countries only.
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| Offers Android jelly bean |
We have to wait for more info on this one at CES 2013 and MWC 2013.
Sources also revealed that Acer is planning to make cheap price (around $499) Windows 8 tablets next year. Lot of users from developing nations will be amazed after getting such type of affordable value news on tablets and gadgets. They are thanking Acer for manufacturing such type of tablets.
Price: Only $99, super cheap.
Overall:
On seeing it I can say it will get good response from low-tier users. Also the tablet looks smart and having enough specs for such low cost.
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