14 DAY TRIAL // People thought Amazon's Kindle Fire and the Barnes and Noble Nook Tablet were cheap, but they may change their tune once they spot the Amiga Xpedio 7MTB.
Sure, the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet has a price of $200 (145 Euro) and the new Barnes and Noble Nook tablet sells for $249 (180 Euro), but those prices don't really compete with that of the Amiga Xpedio 7MTB.
Granted, this isn't a new ARM Cortex-based tablet, Tegra or not, nor a 10.1-inch model with big ambitions, but any tablet with a tag of $98 (71 Euro) is bound to cause a stir.
The new Amiga product, measuring 7 inches in diagonal, is powered by a VIA technologies WM8650 ARM chip.
With a clock speed of 720 MHz, the processor is backed up by 256 MB of LPDDR2 RAM (random access memory).
4 GB of NAND Flash storage space lie on the inside of the item, while a card reader allows for MicroSD / MemoryStick / MMC cards of up to 32 GB to be added on top of that.
In other words, the 4 GB are there mostly to hold the operating system (Android 2.2) and, perhaps, some music files.
The display of the Amiga Xpedio 7MTB features touchscreen, of course, although perhaps not of the same level as other, big names like the ASUS Transformer.
Instead of capacitive multitouch, Amiga made do with a resistive technology that still keeps track of two points at once.
All in all, this critter might actually turn out to be very disruptive, especially with its other, stronger versions (pre-orders for all will begin on November 11, 2011, with shipments set for before December 25).
Besides this base configuration, buyers can choose the Xpedio 7 MT and Xpedio 10 MT, which have one or more of the following: Samsung's PV210 SoC (ARM Cortex-A8 processor at 1 GHz), 512 MB RAM and 8GB storage.
These two have capacitive multi-touch too and still cost just $189 (137 Euro) and $289 (209 Euro), respectively.