Android and the Race to the Bottom

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story imageOne thing is certain about Android phones and tablets: it keeps getting cheaper to have one. HP has thrown itself into the fray with a $99 tablet boasting some mediocre specs and a great price tag:
The tablet rocks specs not that much better than HP's ill-fated Palm TouchPad. The 7-inch screen has a resolution of 1024 x 600 and the package is powered by an Allwinner Technology A31 SoC that features four Cortex A7 cores clocked at 1 GHz along with a Power VR SGX544MP2 GPU and 1GB of RAM. But it's only $99.
Get one now for cheap, so when they release Android 5 ("Lollipop") you can cash in on all the rumored new features , like fitness links, upgrades to security, audio, and video, and Project Hera , "Google's effort to unify the Chrome browser with Android and Search."

Way Overpriced (Score: 1, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-05-22 17:56 (#1VT)

The same hardware is available for under $50 without the HP name.

What exactly is the point of this, other than to tarnish what's left of HP's brand?

I hope I'm wrong and that this thing is great.
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