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Retailer intros cut-price 10in Android tablet

Yours for £151 - for now...

Cheap 10in tablet, anyone? Aussie retailer Kogan - which also operates here in the UK - will have one out next month for 151 quid.

Not an inherently bad spec, either. 10in, 1024 x 768 capacitive touchscreen; 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 derived processor; 512MB of DDR 3 memory; HDMI and USB portage; and a 2Mp webcam.

Kogan 10in Android tablet

Corners have been cut, of course. There's only 4GB of storage, but a big Micro SD card will fix that. Wi-Fi is limited to 802.11g. And it comes with Android 2.3 Gingerbread rather than Honeycomb, let alone Ice Cream Sandwich.

Still, it's hard to argue with the price, even when delivery is £4 extra. Though the price is going up to £179 if you don't buy early, Kogan warned, without saying when it'll hit that point.

Kogan 8in Android tablet

If the price is still too much at £151, Kogan has an 8in, 800 x 480 version for £121 - slowly rising to £139 - in the works. Both ship on 18 November, the company said. ®

"Corners have been cut...."

...is that to try to stop them being sued by Apple for being too rectangular?

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Anonymous Coward

At that price it's hard to say no

Despite still not having any need for a tablet whatsoever...

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No, you've misunderstood. It was cutting the corners off and making them rounded that is key to Apple's patent. Rectangular corners would be OK.

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Rectangular corners would be OK

If used with safety glasses, gloves and high vis overall

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Better than Hannspree?

Who's tablet was £150 for eBuyer a few weeks ago an sported a Tegra2 chip.

Clearly both will need a custom Honeycomb ROM installed to get the best functionality, but it's good to see some competition at the budget end of the tablet market.

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