Title: Argos enters the mini-tablet market with a £100
Windows 8.1 machine
Summary:
This article is about Argos
selling windows tablets at £100 which is significantly cheaper and that being
said they are selling the tablets at a loss, in order to gain a competitive
advantage over Tesco, Sainsbury and staples along with other stores too. They
are offering different things, like a terabyte of space on the One Drive cloud
storage. The article then does a soft
ware review and delivers a verdict on the tablet.
The star rating given is 3.5/5. The pros of it are: great value,
especially if you want the Office bundle. It looks feels and works better than
you’d expect from a £100 tablet. The cons of it are: poor battery life, and
limited selection of Windows Store apps. Other constraints – RAM, storage,
screen resolution etc – are excusable at the price.
Facts/Phrases:
Ø Most
of the new 7in and 8in Windows 8.1 tablets have very similar specifications.
Usually they have a quadcore 1.33/1.83GHz Intel Atom Z3735G processor
with Intel HD graphics, 1GB of memory and either 16GB or 32GB of eMMC Flash
memory storage (eMMC is slower than SSD, but still fast).
Ø The
multi-touch screen has a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels, and there are 2
megapixel cameras front and back, plus one or two tiny loudspeakers. The main
connections are a 3.5mm stereo jack, a microSDHC memory card slot, microUSB OTG
and HDMI ports, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 4.
Ø The
Bush MyTablet has an 8in screen, 32GB of storage (24GB free), and only one
speaker. It measures 215mm x 123mm x 8.6mm and weighs 330g, so it’s
tablet-sized. The top edge has an on-off button and a Windows Key button,
separated by a volume rocker.
Opinion:
In my opinion, this article
portrays how new and digital media has presented the change in which monolithic
empires have dissolved in to cottage industries, demonstrating a more
pluralistic society where there is more choice.
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