Tablet for $ 99: the first features

Extra-Google tablet costs only $ 99 to appear on the market later this year, just before the Christmas sales, the publication DigiTimes. In addition, it was learned some of the characteristics of new items. So, what was sacrificed for the sake of an attractive price tag?

First, we had to give up the quad-core Tegra 3 in favor of a cheaper chip WM8950 from Taiwanese manufacturer WonderMedia Technologies, which includes a single-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor with a clock frequency of 800 MHz and a pretty decent graphics accelerator Mali-400 MP. Recall, the same schedule is set to Galaxy S2 and Galaxy Note. Power of this processor will be enough to play the video format Full HD, well, in conjunction with improvements in the Android 4.1 (maybe even new released running Android 4.2) specific gaps in the performance of common tasks you should not be overlooked.

Entrusted the production of displays another Taiwanese company HannStar Display. Rather, in order to save the resolution will be reduced from 1280 x 800 to 1024 x 600 pixels. According to DigiTimes, the assembly cost tablet Google will take over the company Quanta Computer.

Superbyudzhetny gugloplanshet can compete not only iPad Mini, the price of which can not be called very affordable, but also become a rival Chinese no name-producers at the expense of its quality.

I wonder if you would have purchased a tablet or is it believed that the best podnakopit and buy a more powerful device?