Slab Segments
Cheap tables are a’plenty. Being a reformed gizmo glutton, I still receive a number of consumer electronics communiqués … hourly. Most are for products I have no intention of buying, especially television sets that could cover my living room wall and still provide nothing considered entertaining. Yet an occasional marketing lesson appears between engorged LED boob boxes and pocket cameras with more pixel resolution than the televisions. Today it was cheap tablet computers, or what I prefer to call slabs. Below those afore mentioned money wasters were a selection of slabs ranging from $129 to $320, and available with seven to ten inch screens. This price range is a fair bit below the lowest end of the iPad 2 product line and the poorly marketed Xoom. These slabs were not insufficient, sporting the same base memory, Wi-Fi and all the functionality of last year’s Android OS. For customers lacking coolness … Continue reading →