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Lenovo To Offer $200 Budget Tablet

Posted by samzenpus on from the discount-computing dept.

First time accepted submitter khellendros1984 writes "Amazon's not the only big-name company planning on a budget-level tablet release; Lenovo recently announced their Ideapad A1 tablet as competition. It includes a 1GHz Cortex A8 CPU, along with other features more commonly seen on higher-priced tablets, such as dual cameras, bluetooth, GPS, wifi, and a MicroSD slot. Is this the start of the Android tablet price avalanche?"

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  1. What about inventor of the rounded corner? by phonewebcam · · Score: 0, Troll

    Apple (not the Beatles record label, the one that copied their name) hates copying so much they bully entire countries into banning their competitors. Mind you, they actually do have a sense of humour - at least I'm being charitable and assuming their latest desperate claim over Android itself is a joke. If you can stop laughing long enough after reading that, didn't Andy Rubin do his work on Danger *after* he left Apple? And m$ bought Danger? So by Apples latest barrel-scraping logic, they should be squabbling with m$ too. Oh, and when Andy was 12 I hear he did a paper round, and some of the mags he delivered were tech and so inspired him. The newsagents lawyers would like a word...