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A few weeks ago, reports trickled down from the mount that Acer was prepping a $100 (UK price wasn’t mentioned, but $100 is around £60 – £70) 7-inch tablet with specs that were juuuussssssst decent enough to be usable. The Iconia B1-A71 seems to fit the bill. Except, well, for the bill.
The Iconia B1-A71 has a 1.2GHz processor, a 1024×600 display, 8GB of storage, 512MB of RAM, Android Jelly Bean (nice!), and a 0.3MP camera (less nice!). All of which makes its closest comparison the original Kindle Fire, Amazon’s price-structure-shattering tablet of last year. So far so good.
But then you remember that Amazon still sells the Kindle Fire for £159, and that it now has 1GB of RAM, and suddenly the case for the $150 Acer (still cheap, at under £100) becomes slightly less compelling. At the originally rumored $100 this thing would have been a no-brainer; at $150 your brain is probably nudges you gently towards Amazon.
Still, it’s nice to see cheap(er) tablets that aren’t as feeble as the junk you’ll find in PC World. And we’ll have a much better idea what to expect from budget entry when we go hands on with it this week at CES.
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Wrong direction Acer. I want a 7 inch tablet with high end specs.
higher than a nexus 7? and youll get better quality from asus or do you want even more power still (if so why?)
The Archos cobalt tablet I got from Tesco for £50 has this beat. 1,6ghz dual core, 1gb Ram, 8gb storage + micro so slot. I think the same res screen. It’s natively 1024×768 but the onscreen buttons eat into that. Cameras are crop, 2 and 0.3mp and it’s only on ICS but it’s great for the money.
I’m not interested in buying a cheap tablet whose spec’s are ‘juuuussssssst decent enough to be usable”
all that says is “I only bought it because I’m cheap”
I got a nabi 2 tablet for my daughter for £100 and the thing’s a monster the only real downside is that it runs on ICS. and the screen resolution is slightly lower than the nexus 7. still worht every penny, i wasn’t really sold on 7 inch tablets until i played with it