14 DAY TRIAL // UK supermarket chain Tesco has announced it has sold 500,000 Hudl tablets since the company released the slate half a year ago.
Back in September 2013, UK supermarket giant made a pretty astonishing unveiling. The company introduced its own Hudl tablet, which sold for a very budget-friendly price.
While the tablet was greeted with skepticism, raised eyebrows and ironic smiles, initial reviews proved the tablet wasn't all that bad, especially for the price at which it sold.
Hudl retails for just £119 / $200 / €145 and comes equipped with a 7-inch screen, a quad-core 1.5GHz Rockchip CPU with 1GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage. It also boasted a decent resolution (1440 x 900 pixels) which is better than similar options have to offer.
In a short time, the Hudl become extremely popular and was declared an absolute success with British customers.
And recently, Tesco announced it sold the impressive number of 500,000 units since September, reports ZDNet. Based on recent estimates coming from Gartner, Tesco has managed to become a bigger tablet maker than the decrepit BlackBerry.
Earlier today, we told you BlackBerry is still mulling on the idea of rolling a successor for the original PlayBook tablet. This time, however, the company will probably target enterprises and professionals activating in niche fields like medicine.
But going back to Tesco, considering how successful they turned out to be with their first tablet in just a few months, it makes sense that a second-generation Hudl will be coming at some point.
Tesco has already confirmed the company is planning to launch a second model that will arrive on the market later this year. No comments related to details or specifications of the new tablet have been made, but word on the street has it Hudl might be partnering up with Archos for the next one.
To encourage more customers jumping onboard of the Hudl bandwagon, Tesco has launched a subsidized program similar to the one available for the Kindle Fire.
Hudl users can take advantage of the full Google Play goodness, but also have the opportunity to tap into Tesco’s own BlinkBox service which sells ebooks, music and video.
Users located in the UK can also use the tablet to directly order groceries from Tesco itself. Products such as Hudl are pushing tablets’ popularity levels in the country, with recent research indicating that more than half of UK consumers have access to or own a tablet. Last year alone, UK customers purchased up to 12 million units.