HiVision showcases dirt cheap 7 inch Android tablet

Chinese PC maker HiVision has a tendency to pump out cheap mini-computers that we never see in the US. But that doesn’t stop them from showing up at trade shows. The company is on-hand at CeBIT in Germany this week, and jkkmobile spotted an interesting 7 inch tablet that could sell for as little as $100… in China anyway. No word on whether any Western distributors plan to pick this little guy up.

The tablet runs Google Android and has a 7 inch, 800 x 480 pixel resistive touchscreen display and an 800MHz ARM11-based processor. It comes with 2GB of storage, 256MB of RAM, 802.11b/g WiFi. You can add Bluetooth, 3G, and GPS support with USB peripherals. The batter is 4200mAh which should provide up to 6 hours of run time.

Spec-wise, it’s hardly the most exciting tablet we’ve seen. But it’s one of the cheapest.

Video after the break, courtesy of jkkmobile.

Posted on Monday, March 1st, 2010, 4:03 pm by Brad Linder
Tags: android, cebit 2010, hivision, tablets, video

Comments

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guest // March 1st, 2010 at 10:49 pm

make it thinner and 9″ not 7″ and im buying one. this is all ipad needs to be (including the price)… looks very promissing
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BoloMKXXVIII // March 2nd, 2010 at 6:33 am

I wish it would come to the states at around $100. It would be worth picking up just to see what it could do and to try out the tablet format to see if it is worth buying a more expensive unit.
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BigGoofyGuy // March 2nd, 2010 at 8:20 am

I think the price is right to make it popular. It would be neat to see it in the USA at about $100. I would get one just to have at wifi hot spots where it would be easier to carry and be able to use web oriented apps.
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Kobaljov // March 2nd, 2010 at 4:03 pm

The similar (same?) Archos 7 will be around 180 USD (in the US)
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Kobaljov // March 2nd, 2010 at 9:03 pm

The similar (same?) Archos 7 will be around 180 USD (in the US)