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ZTE’s been on a budget smartphone mission as of late in the UK. Now it’s pushing a cheapish 7-inch Android tablet, but the problem is that it’s not running Ice Cream Sandwich. In fact it’s not even running Honeycomb; it’s still running Gingerbread. What are they thinking?
The ZTE V9A – Light Tab 2’s 7-inch 1024×600 screen is at least capacitive, and comes in at a relatively thin 12.6mm thick. It’s powered by a single-core 1.4GHz processor, so perhaps Gingerbread is the best it can do, with 512MB of RAM; 4GB of ROM, and a microSD card slot for storage. Wi-Fi, 3G and two cameras – a VGA front-facing video cam and a rear 3.2-megapixel shooter on the back – round out the specs.
It could be a bargain tablet for those looking for a 7-incher on the cheap — maybe for a modding project or something — but it’s just not that cheap. Clove has it arriving in the UK at the end of February for £235. At that price there’s quite a few tablets around that are a lot better equipped – the Archos G9 springs to mind.
It’s a bit crap, it’s not that cheap and it’s running Gingerbread – does ZTE really think Briton’s will buy any old crappy excuse for Android tablet? [Clove]
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Have you tried putting that question to ZTE’s PR department?
With the ASUS Tegra 3 tablet for $250 coming soon no clued up Android fan will want this.
ASUS said that they aren’t releasing that here, said no market for a cheap 7″-er in the UK – considering we haven’t had a quality 7″ tablet in the UK and we are smart technology shopper I’d love to know what this is based on? Looks like an import only job, but considering it would probably be more like £220 in rip-off UK, it was always going to be an import job in my grey market world.