{"id":5168,"date":"2011-04-21T18:24:51","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T23:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/?p=5168"},"modified":"2023-12-07T06:09:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T12:09:11","slug":"would-you-buy-a-supermarket-branded-android-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/04\/would-you-buy-a-supermarket-branded-android-tablet\/","title":{"rendered":"Would you buy a supermarket-branded Android tablet?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Oh those crazy Europeans. Carrefour, one of the largest hypermarket chains in the world, is offering a 10.1 inch Android tablet for 199\u20ac (about 290 USD). According to its Greek website, the Carrefour TouchTablet CT1001 rocks a 16:9 display with a 1024×600 resolution, WiFi, 4GB of internal storage, an accelerometer, Android Eclair 2.1, and a battery life capable of juicing out 7 hours of video playback. Oh, and the display is resistive. Wait, what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not so fast, that display spec may be a typo. According to the Greek site Techblog, an ad for the same product boasts a capacitive<\/em> display, Android 2.2, and a MicroSD port. So what specs are correct? I did a little bit of digging and it turns out the Carrefour TouchTablet CT1001 is developed by Archos and bears a very striking resemblance to the Archos 101 internet tablet (although it is not the same one). Both the Archos 101 and Archos 70 boast capacitive displays so there’s a high possibility that the Carrefour website made a mistake. It is also very possible that Carrefour is fronting a down-specced Archos 101 but seeing as how the Archos 101 retails for $299 with a hard drive that’s twice as big and a capacitive display, this might not be the case. I guess we’ll have to wait and see if anyone actually picks one up the next time they go shopping for groceries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regardless, this is a supermarket branded Android tablet. Is it a matter of time until a Safeway branded or Costco branded tablet hits our shores? If they do, would you buy one?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sources: Carrefour<\/a>, TechBlog<\/a>, ArcTablet Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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