Wal-Mart lackeys ASDA are all set to begin stocking one of the cheapest and most cheerful Android tablets currently on the open market, all it seems, for the benefit of those too cool for an iPad.
The £99 Arnova 8 is a sleek silver Android tablet which carries an 8-inch screen, 4GB of built-in memory, Wi-Fi and an SDHC slot for additional files via memory card, along with the Android 2.1 operating system. Sure, it’s not the latest Android Honeycomb or even Gingerbread, but with apps available from the AppsLib store and at this price, who could complain?
Arnova boasts that their tablet can provide around 25 hours of music playback and 5.5 hours video playback from it’s lithium polymer battery. There’s 720p HD video playback, an 800 x 600 resolution TFT screen. The tab itself is pretty small, weighing just 500g and measuring 20.5 x 1.2 x 15.3 cm.
There are a lot of these tablets-on-a-budget coming out at the moment, usually running older, non-Honeycomb versions of Android. These tablets offer easy access to Google systems including Apps and Maps for an affordable price.
The Arnova 8 joins the ETouch 7-inch tablet and Binatone Homesurf 7″ in Asda’s sub-£100 Android tablet category. Which one will you choose?
Although it won’t be the best looking Android version and build quality may be questionable, the Arnova 8 is certainly hard to overlook at that price.