Archos 97 & 80 Platinum Tablets, Asus Fonepad, Samsung Galaxy Note 8, HP Slate 7, Sony Xperia Tablet Z are among best tablets of the year 2013
The tablet market in 2013 is to witness to a turning point. Falling cost is a major point that will give more prominence for tablet computers in global markets. Recently, Acer’s chairman J.T. Wang has admitted that along with lowering costs, expanding sales and raising popularity are to give a new face for tablet PCs this year. Which will be the best slates that will hit the stores this year, here is our list of the best tablets.
Asus Fonepad: Simply speaking, Fonepad is Asus’ direct rival at Google’s Nexus 7, which is also made by Asus. This time, the Taiwan tech maker has made a 7-inch tablet with a sole aim to beat the Nexus 7 in price. So, the Fonepad, which is up with an IPS LCD display and Intel Atom Z2420 CPU is to come for just $169. It boasts of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and a 3.15MP rear camera as other key attributes.
HP Slate 7: The Slate 7 marks Hewlett-Packard’s ingress to the Android tablet production. After the failure of its webOS and TouchPad projects, HP has now turned toward Android, and the Slate 7 has come out as the first device of the series. Being a 7-inch device, it mounts an FFS+ LCD screen and is equipped with a 1.6GHz Cortex-A9 dual core processor, 1GB RAM and 8GB of internal memory. It runs on Android 4.1 JB and will be priced below $200.
Samsung Galaxy Note 8: Following the success of its Note phablets and a bigger tablet variant, the Note 10.1, Samsung has produced a midsize model the Galaxy Note 8. The Korean tech firm, which launched the first midsize tablet in 2010, has designed the Note 8 with an 8-inch TFT screen and an Exynos 4412 quad core CPU. It is nice that the tablet supports Samsung’s famous S-Pen digitizer for managing the slate easily. Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean is the firmware preinstalled.
Sony Xperia Tablet Z: It is a tablet variant of Sony’s new flagship phone, the Xperia Z. The slate boasts the same selling point of its phone version, i.e. water and dust proof-capability. As a larger tablet, Xperia Z has an LED-backlit LCD screen and it packs a Qualcomm Snapdragon quad core processor, 2GB of RAM and an 8.1MP rear camera. On release, it will have run on Android 4.1.2 JB Jelly Bean out of the box, and it can be upgraded to the new Android 4.2 Jelly Bean.
ZTE V98: It is a larger Windows tablet PC. Working on a 1.8GHz dual core x86 Intel processor and 2GB of RAM, the ZTE V98 is a great machine. It has a nice design and better specs. It features a 10-inch TFT display and an 8MP rear camera and more.
Archos 97 & 80 Platinum Tablets: The new Titanium slates from Archos are looking great. The devices – respectively having a 9.7-inch and 8-inch IPS displays – will showcase almost the same specs under the hood. They will be running on dual core A9 processors that will clock at 1.6GHz and will get support from 1GB RAM and 8GB of flash memory. The 97 Titanium and 80 Titanium will come for $249 and $169 respectively
Lenovo Tablet Trio: Lenovo is a fine developer of Android products. Its new row of three Android tablets the A1000, A3000 and S6000 are to turn up raising critical challenge to the whole new line of tablets in market. The first two are 7-inch models, while the last one is a large 10-in slate.
All the devices are to come with nice specs, of course. The A1000 is to mount a dual core processor with 8GB and 16GB internal memory options. The A3000 and S6000 are to hit shelves with quad-core MediaTek CPUs and other nice stuffs. They will all run on some recent Android version.
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