Argos has broadcast that it will be entering the budget Android tablet market with a 7-inch apparatus that will go on sale for £99 on 16 October.
The imaginatively entitled MyTablet packed a 1.6GHz dual-core processor and has a paltry 1,024x600-pixel tenacity brandish. Inside is only 8GB of storage, which will harshly limit the number of apps you can download onto the device, as well as the allowance of pictures, video and melodies you can shop. This can be amplified by up to 32GB with a microSD card, but counting in the additional cost of the business card, you might just be better off expending your money on a slightly more expensive tablet.
Argos isn't the first well-known British retailer to make its own Android tablet -- Tesco too has lately issued a 7-inch slate called the Hudl, which is somewhat more expensive than the MyTablet at £120. For that additional £20 though, the Hudl has considerably more to offer. interior is a more powerful 1.5GHz quad-core processor and 16GB of in-built storage -- two times that of the MyTablet. The computer display too is sharper, proposing 1,440x900 pixels.
Just like the Hudl, the MyTablet will run Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2, a somewhat recent type of the functioning scheme. It will arrive pre-loaded with BBC iPlayer, furious Birds, Facebook and Twitter. Argos claims a forward-facing camera is flawless for Skyping, although at 0.3 megapixels value is expected to be equitably abysmal. It is escorted by a 2-megapixel camera on the back of the tablet.
Connectivity options include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and micro-HDMI and Micro-USB.
With the tablet available in both silver and pink, it's rather clear Argos is throwing the MyTablet at a junior audience, but The device is being commenced in time to make people's Christmas lists, but Argos also proposes that with the Argos app pre-installed it might well be used as a Christmas buying tool too -- most likely in location of its well known catalogues, which have very pleased numerous young kids over the years with their endless supply of desirable pieces.
"Customers have not ever had such a good value tablet at such an inexpensive cost. At just £99.99 the Argos MyTablet is highly comparable with a great specification, and aligns precisely in the variety of tablets we have on offer," says John Walden, organising controller of Argos about the tablet.
Realistically though, the budget Android tablet is exceedingly bloated and while the MyTablet may appeal persons with its very low cost, it boasts some of the inferior specs we've glimpsed on any apparatus this year and is expected to be very annoying to use. Parents looking for a budget tablet would be better off expending an additional £20 to break up the Tesco Hudl or the Asus Memo Pad HD, or if they can stretch to it the superb Nexus 7 2, which is accessible for under £200.
