The tablet in question is the ViewSonic ViewPad E70. In order to get the price of a tablet down to something affordable for general consumers you can expect to sacrifice some of the high-end features. The E70 is should fill the niche pretty well with a name that many know and can respect. The tablet is slated for launch in May of this year with a retail price tag of $169. Inside you find some lower end specs that should still help quench your thirst. The E70 will be a 7-inch tab with a lower resolution 800 X 480 display. It will feature a 1GHz processor, 4GB internal memory with microSD card slot. External connections you will find a microHDMI port for connecting to a TV or external display. You will also find a standard front facing camera for self portraits and video calls. Of course there won’t be any cellular connections, but it will have a Wi-Fi connection integrated. Not to mention it will be running the latest and greats Android OS, Ice Cream Sandwich.
If you are looking to spend a little more money, ViewSonic has a second tablet that is scheduled to ship out the end of January, the Viewpad 10e. This one has slightly increased specs. Bringing you a 9.7 inch screen with a resolution of 1024 X 768. Still packing a 1 GHz processor and the same 4GB of memory. It will run a little short on only 512 MB of RAM and still has a front facing camera and a mini-HDMI port. The ViewPad 10e is set to land with Honeycomb as the stock OS, but will see an Ice Cream Sandwich update in the near future. This tablet is set to launch with a price tag of $270.
Neither of these tablets are going to be the mega power house devices that you see plastered across ads and websites. For the price tags and the specs though, they sound like they should be great entry level devices. Even if they can let me read some books and watch some movies, I think I would be happy to spend $170. We did get a chance to take a look at these guys, if even only for a brief moment. The viewing angles on the screen are drastically improved as compared to their current tablet offerings. Hopefully we will be getting some hands on time with these as they become available and we will be sure to elt you know if they are worth your time and money.
Source: ZDNet
About the Author
I’m sure there will be a few people who have no experience with the company that will buy them.
I cannot justify more money to a company for a lower spec tablet, when they abandoned they users on the last batch of products. Didn’t they go back on their promise to update the gTablet when HC/ICS source dropped?
Nah, that’s okay… I think I’ll opt for paying the extra $100-200 for a brand that supports it’s products
Never buy their product again after they abandoned Viewsonic Gtablet
Sadly that seems to happen with a good chunk of all tablets and devices. I can only think of a few manufacturer who ever actually have done updates as promised. I personally feel that when I buy an android product anymore that I should look to what it can do now, not what it should do in the future. When I look at new phones I don’t look at who makes it, I look at the reports of devices sold and I keep tabs on the development community. Until there is a way for companies to profit from an update, they will always put more efforts into the next device before they spend time and money to update one that has already been produced.