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NEW HONEYCOMB TABLETS, NEW FEATURES, NEW PRICE POINTS

By on Apr 26 2011
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The next wave of Honeycomb tablets has arrived, and they’re setting new levels of performance and pricing.

Check out these four devices that are now hitting the streets.

ASUS’s Tegra-powered Eee Pad Transformer TF101 tablet is available today at Best Buy stores and online, joining Acer’s Tegra-powered Acer Iconia Tab A500 tablet, which is available in stores. Starting at under $400, the Eee Pad Transformer brings new, affordable price points to tablets running Honeycomb (also known as Android 3.0).

There’s a lot about these tablets to be excited about.  True to its “Transformer” name, the Eee Pad Transformer comes with an optional docking station, which transforms the device into a full-fledged notebook with a QWERTY keyboard, and extending battery life up to 16 hours. It also features a 10.1-inch screen, front (1.2MP) and rear (5MP) digital cameras, built-in SRS Sound technology and a mini-HDMI output port for playback on your favorite HDTV.

But the Eee Pad Transformer’s most distinguishing feature might just be its price. It’s just $399 for the WiFi 16GB model. This brings the combined wonders of Honeycomb and Tegra to a whole new price point.

The Acer Iconia Tab A500 tablet is also now available at Best Buy. It’s designed for mobile HD entertainment, featuring a slim, modern design, high-resolution 10.1-inch multi-touch screen. It also has 10-point multi-touch and gyrometer control for playing HD arcade games and online 3D games. For seamless digital media sharing, Acer’s clear.fi is also pre-installed. Its starting price is $449.99.

Separately, it’s great to see that the Honeycomb tablet that started it all, the Motorola XOOM, is now available in a new WiFi-only, 32 GB version for only $599.

These devices join the new T-Mobile G-Slate (starting at $529.99) as the latest tablets that run Honeycomb – the first GPU-accelerated tablet user interface. They offer a rich, high quality experience, including fast web browsing, Flash support, true multitasking, and console-quality gaming with Tegra Zone games.

These four tablets are just the beginning. Look for more Honeycomb tablets to come soon, offering consumers a variety of options for their mobile computing experience.

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  • http://twitter.com/CallingBubba Bubba GotPassport

    I really like the ASUS approach. Just watched the Steve Jobs Keynote introducing the iPad2 again, and stated that all other tablets are pretty much copycats. I think for the most part that is true, but I do like the approach by ASUS Transformer (great geek name) and Motorola Atrix, particularly the $399 price tag of the ASUS. Now where’s my closest Best Buy store…

  • http://twitter.com/JonGarrett2009 Jon Garrett

    Steve Jobs says other tablets are just copycats? did Apple invent;
    - the tablet? NO
    - did apple invent touch screen? NO
    - did apple invent the smart phone? NO
    - did apple invent mobile apps? NO

    In fact, apple didnt even invent the first “i” device. Compaq did, in 1999 with the Compaq iPaq.
    Another fact, apple didnt invent the first “iphone” Netgear did back in 2005. apple later stole the name from them claiming people would confuse Netgear’s PHONE with apple’s ipod.

  • http://Androidized.com Lucian Armasu

    This tablet is first big brand tablet to become popular in the Android ecosystem.

    But that’s not what I came here for. I was wondering if you guys are going to make “low-end” Cortex A9 chips for the cheapest Android phones out there. I’m tired of seeing the same old ARM11 600 Mhz chip everywhere. and I’m not very happy with its performance. A 500-600 Mhz Cortex A9 chip should be much faster right?

    The thing is if you really want to be the “Intel” of ARM chips, you can’t have only the “best” chips. You also have to cover the whole market at different price points. Remember how Intel got in trouble when they forgot about the low-end of the market? And eventually they built Celeron. Later, they remembered the lesson and built Atom for netbooks. Of course, they also have chips for several other price points and performance levels.

    You guys have to do the same. You have to cover the low-end, mid-end, and high-end (which I think you already own in terms of performance). Android’s growth has just started because even if the high-end is saturated and can’t gain even higher growth from the high-end (just maintain it), it’s barely starting to sell in the mid-end around $150-$200, but just think of how much volume it’s going to sell in the $50-$100 market a couple of years from now. The number of units sold should be several times greater then.

    So why would you miss this and focus only on the high-end, and leave Qualcomm take 70% of the whole ARM chip market? Even if the higher volume won’t compensate the lower profits from those chips,the fact that you could own the majority of the ARM chip market more than makes up for it. Just something to think about.