[Marketing] Competitive Landscape: Andy Pad and Andy Pad Pro info and pricing revealed

[Walter Bender]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> Very interesting thanks Christoph
>
> What could drive this in K-8 edu is applications (i.e. a pack with
> educational focus), but I don't know what is available for Android.
>
> Touchscreen is very easy to learn & use for smaller kids, much simpler
> than mouse & keyboard from what I've seen

Certainly easier than a mouse. But it is hard to beat pounding away on
a keyboard.

-walter
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Christoph Derndorfer
> <e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>> http://www.neowin.net/news/andy-pad-and-andy-pad-pro-info-and-pricing-revealed
>>
>> "While the standard Andy Pad had previously been announced with a price
>> of £129 (about $210) the more powerful Andy Pad Pro now has an official
>> pricing of £179 (about $290). Both products have the 2.3 Gingerbread
>> version of the Android operating system (as opposed to the 3.1 version
>> which is made specifically for tablet products).  Both have a 7-inch
>> touch screen and WiFi support but the standard Andy Pad has 8 GB of
>> storage, a front side only camera, a resistive touch screen, and a video
>> resolution of up to 800x600. The Andy Pad Pro has 16 GB of storage,
>> Bluetooth wireless support, a capacitive touch screen, 1024x768 video
>> resolution, both front and rear cameras and more. Both versions will
>> also come with a number of apps and games pre-installed."
>>
>> I'd definitely like to see how these tablets perform, looking at some of
>> the Archos Android tablets it definitely seems like there's a big market
>> for relatively low-price tablets out there:-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Christoph
>>
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>> Christoph Derndorfer
>> co-editor, www.olpcnews.com
>> e-mail: christoph at olpcnews.com
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