Prices are falling on tablets running Android OS 4.1, with Karbonn Mobiles Indian company announced a tablet at a price of about U.S. $ 125, using the latest operating system from Google, which is code-named Jelly Bean.
The Smart Tab 1 tablet with Android 1.4 is the second After Google Nexus 7 was announced in late June. At 6990 rupees, the price is lower than the Nexus 7, which starts at $ 199. The smart card 1 is available in India, according to the MIPS, which made the announcement on behalf of Karbonn.
The tablet has a 7-inch screen and runs on a single-core processor MIPS at a clock speed of 1.2GHz. It has a 2 megapixel front camera, 3G support via a dongle, and seven hours of battery life while browsing and eight hours of video. About Internal Memory was not available, although Karbonn said on its website that the tablet has 32GB of expandable memory. The additional storage will probably come across a micro-SD slot.
Specifications pale in comparison to Google Nexus 7, which has a quad-core processor Nvidia Tegra 3, a 7-inch high-resolution screen and up to 16GB of internal storage of the tablet. Other companies such as Asus Tablet Android 4.1 updates that would come in due course.
The smart card 1 is the first Android 4.1 tablet will be available with a MIPS processor, which two weeks ago said to have speeded up the door of the operating system to work with its processors. On behalf of the manufacturer Ainol tablet, MIPS industry observers at the end of last year has surprised us with the announcement of a $ 99 tablet with Android 4.0 based on its processor. The tablet $ 99 was the cheapest and one of the first with Android 4.0 at the moment, but this year I jumped ahead and released the first device with Android 4.1 Nexus 7.
Karbonn Mobiles said that an over-the-air update to Android 4.1 will be delivered existing intelligent Tab 1 guests, but did not specify a timeline. The company hopes to sell 200,000 tablets per month.
Tablets with MIPS processors are mostly under $ 150, and the few available models have not been popular, despite the low price. MIPS few weeks ago said that a new 7-inch tablet called MiuMiu W1 Chinese company Ramos would be available in a few months in India, Latin America and Europe. The tablet has a 1.2GHz processor MIPS, a front-facing camera, a microSD slot for expandable storage, and 4GB or 8GB of storage.
MIPS is competing with ARM, whose processors go into most tablets like Apple's iPad. Most application development is geared towards ARM, and users have complained about application incompatibility of tablets MIPS. MIPS is addressing the problem, working with partners, and said the most popular Android apps like Fruit Ninja now work with MIPS processors. MIPS is also working with the application software of the Opera browser to work on tablets MIPS.
In May, MIPS has released a new generation of processors called APTIV, which will replace the current generation of processors used in tablets. The new processors are more power efficient and fast, and comparable to current ARM processors in terms of performance, according to analysts. The devices with the latest APTIV nuclei could be released just a year from now, MIPS said.
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