7-inch, $150 Android tablet set to go on sale - Yahoo! News: "Rather not spend $500 on an iPad or $550 on Dell’s 5-inch Android tablet? Is Archos’s $200 Android slate still a tad too rich for your blood? Then try this on for size: a 7-inch, $150 Android tablet, coming soon to a K-Mart near you.
Set to go on sale this week, according to Kmart circulars spotted by Engadget, Augen’s GenTouch78 makes for one of the cheapest full-on tablet devices I’ve seen yet (well, except maybe for this one), and according to the manufacturer’s spec sheet, it’s got some pretty solid features to go along with the bargain price tag.
Running on version 2.1 of the Android OS (slightly behind Android 2.2, which is starting to roll out on the latest Android smartphones), the GenTouch sports a 7-inch, 800-by-480 TFT touch display, plus an 800MHz processoor under the hood, 256MB of RAM, 2GB of internal storage, an SD/MMC memory card slot (good for expanding the tablet’s storage capacity by another 16GB), and — naturally — Wi-Fi support.
The GenTouch’s media player can handle video files up to 720p (which would have to be downscaled for the WVGA display) and supports e-books in text, PDF, ePub, and HTML formats. Even better, the GenTouch product page claims that you’ll be able to download apps from the Android Marketplace onto the tablet — although I’d like to see this in person, given that Google has supposedly restricted Android Marketplace access on “non-smartphones' like Archos’s Android tablet.
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