The Chinese create the most affordable tablet with Windows

Mar 13, 2015 14:34 GMT  ·  By

Want something a bit more affordable than the $1,950 (€1,500) Surface Pro 3 but still powered by Windows 8.1? Is the $200 (€150 ) Dell Venue 8 Pro still too expensive for you and you look for something cheaper? Can't afford the $100 (€73) Toshiba Encore and hope to find something at an even lower price than that?

Enter MOMO7W.

Coming from China, the MOMO7W is pretty much the most affordable Windows 8.1 tablet ever, being available for only $50 (€42). And no, it's not running Windows RT 8.1, but the full version of the operating system. As in the one that's also powering your laptop. So yes, you can also work on the desktop with legacy Windows software if you want.

But you know the old saying that what you pay is what you get? It perfectly makes sense in this case.

Modest specs

The MOMO7W comes with a 7-inch screen boasting a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels, 1 GB of RAM, 16 GB of storage space, and an SD card slot for additional storage. An Intel Atom Bay Trail processor is hiding under the hood for what the Chinese promise to be excellent performance.

Obviously, you won't get anything past “decent performance,” but the display is what makes this device pretty awful. And yet, there's a way to easily ignore this. The tablet comes with an HDMI port, so you can easily connect it to your full HDMI TV and watch movies or browse the web from your sofa.

And that's not all. The MOMO7W also comes with a 1-year Office 365 subscription, which is actually more expensive than the tablet itself. The cheapest subscription for Office 365 is the “Personal” package available for $69.99 (€55) per year, so with a few extra bucks, you can buy two tablets for the price of an Office subscription.

And by the way, this tablet has something that Microsoft's extremely expensive and utterly high-end Surface Pro 3 does not have: 3G support for on-the-go Internet connectivity. If you're wondering, with the price you'd have to pay for the top Surface Pro 3 model, you could buy no more, no less than 39 Chinese tablets.

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