News - Acer to launch a $99 Android tablet in early 2013

[HEXUS]

Also the company wants to make a "low priced" Intel based Windows 8 tablet.

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[carlborrett]

This looks great, might finally buy a tablet!

[Zetioun]

sounds too good to be true. I wish them luck nonetheless.

[agello24]

its about time. we need someone to knock down these dam over priced ipads.

[SUMMONER]

Wicked. Once one major brand sells a cheap as chips tablet the others will likely follow suit, fearing to otherwise loose market share.

Let the all out price war commence!

[3dcandy]

No chance that Apple will care about cheap Android tablets, they'll just push even more how superior their platform is...though I have noticed many more people not after iPads this year but going for Nexus 7's

[Zanny]

There are already a lot of tablets like this though. I like the price wars, but there are plenty of cheap sub $100 crap devices. If the processor is a dual core A9 it won't be spiffy enough, and the display is way too low PPI to have reasonable viewing.

I'm more hoping for the Tegra 4 Nexus 7 with a 1600x1000 screen and hdmi out. Maybe even an SD card slot. At $200 that thing should crush everything else next year.

[somiksharma]

Great thread. So cheap that anyone can buy.

[jiw2003]

Sounds like a great idea. And considering Capacitive Screens have dropped in price this should be a very responsive system. Lets hope they don't cripple it by adding an old version of Android