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Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/05/android_tablet_wrap/

Cut-price Android tablets ahoy!

Fashion retailers, surplus stockists get in on the act as kit floods in from China

By Register Hardware

Posted in Tablets, 5th October 2010 15:43 GMT

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The Cheap...

John Lewis pitches 80-quid colour e-book reader [1]
No mention of the T-word

Asda prices up Elonex 7in Android tablet [2]
Yours for £97

Dixons touts tablets [3]
Android-tastic 7in and 10in slates incoming

Reseller touts cheap-as-chips 7in Android tablet [4]
Yours for 85 quid

Next Tablet

£180 7in Android tablet launched [5]
Disgo fever

Next fashions budget 10in Android tablet [6]
Cheap for a reason

...the not-so-cheap...

Harrods blings up Android tablet, quintuples price [7]
If you need to ask...

Samsung names Galaxy Tab launch date [8]
D-Day for pricey 7in Android tablet

RIM opens its PlayBook – tablets clearly set for dominance [9]
But Apple could catch up

LG holds back Android tablet for Gingerbread [10]
Awaiting a less smartphone-centric OS

...and the iPad

Oz docs prescribed iPads by Premier [11]
Keep taking the tablets

iPad spends 20% of time in bed [12]
'Not tonight, honey, I'm stroking my tablet'

Tablets in, netbooks out, forecasts analyst [13]
Most of them iPads