14 DAY TRIAL // If you're at CeBIT 2012 in Hannover, Germany, you might want to drop by the booth of a certain Chinese company called Viota.
The reason we say this is a certain report about a tablet that somehow manages to cost just $120, which translates into roughly 91 Euro.
Granted, the internal specs aren't the same as those on the likes of the Eee Pad Transformer Prime, to give one example.
Still, when such a cheap tablet shows up, it deserves at least one mention, so here it is.
Viota used a single-core ARM Cortex-A8 processor from Boxchip. Its clock frequency is 1.5 GHz.
Said processor is backed up by 512 MB or 1 GB of DDR3 RAM (random access memory).
The storage capacity is rather small, but this is probably the main reason why the affordable price tag was achieved.
Where media slates have 16 to 64 GB of NAND Flash, Viota's M970, as the item is called, settles for 4 GB.
That means that buyers will have to constantly use the microSD card slot, although it could be argued that tablet owners do this most of the time anyway.
Moving on, the slate boasts two cameras (one of 2 megapixels on the front and one of 5 megapixels at the back) and space for a mobile broadband modem.
The developers even tossed in an HDMI 1.3 output, for streaming to monitors or HDTVs, and a microUSB port, plus an integrated TV tuner (in Japan only) and the Mali400, integrated graphics, the one that had the reputation as the most powerful of 2011.
Finally, the 9.7-inch liquid crystal display (LCD) panel is one of the most important components: it has a modest native resolution of 1,024 x 768 pixels but an IPS panel, meaning very high brightness and good viewing angles.
The operating system is Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) and is said to run very well.
