Monday, December 5, 2011

MIPS tablet is the “world’s first” Android 4.0 tablet for under $100



Android’s Ice Cream Sandwich is supposed to be the version of Android that bridged Gingerbread and Honeycomb, allowing both smartphone and tablet users the same experience across the board. Unfortunately Ice Cream Sandwich tablets have yet to be released/updated – at least until now.

Thanks to MIPS Technologies, you can now get your hands on what they’re claiming to be the world’s first Ice Cream Sandwich tablet, and the good news is that it will not be breaking the bank! It will retail for $99 but because it is being shipped from China via Ainol Electronics Co.,

So what can we expect from a $100 tablet? For starters the MIPS tablet will run on a 1GHz MIPS-based XBurst CPU with a Vivante GC860 GPU, a 7” display with WiFi, Bluetooth, HDMI and microSD support, with Android’s Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 on board. Not the most impressive of specs but according to MIPS, Google’s Andy Rubin was quoted as saying:

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