It’s tough to find a high quality tablet for less than $100 now that HP has cleared its inventory of discontinued TouchPad tablets. But there are a growing number of not-entirely-awful tablets that can be yours for less than a hundred bucks.
One of the latest additions to that category is the IdolPad form Idolian. It’s a 7 inch tablet called the IdolPad which has a 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 single core processor, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of storage, and Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
It’s not exactly a state-of-the-art machine. It has a low resolution 800 x 480 pixel display and it has a resistive touchscreen rather instead of a capacitive screen. That means you’ll either need to press the screen harder with your fingertip than you would with most Android phones or tablets, or use a fingernail or stylus rather than a fingertip.
But the tablet costs just $99.99, so you kind of get what you pay for. Idolian says it should get between 4 and 6 hours of battery life and can handle 1080p HD video output. There’s also an HDMI port, and the IdolPad has a microSDHC card slot for extra storage. The tablet also apparently comes with the Google Android Market.
If you have an extra $100 to spare, you’d get a device with a better display and faster processor with the $199 Amazon Kindle Fire
The tablet measures 7.8″ x 4.9″ x 0.6″ and weighs about 0.8 pounds.
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Gotta respect their honesty in describing the product. They give pros and cons and it looks like they are being straight up about the limitations and hoping that and the magic $99 price point will move units. And it just might. If they ported 4.0 it certainly would move inventory.
$139 refurbished Nook Color from buy.com 🙂