After getting a taste of cheaply priced tablet, thanks to clearance sale of HP tablets, the users will find it difficult to spend £500+
on other tablets. The sale also proved that if tablets, barring the ones from the House of Apple, have to succeed, then they really need to lower their margins and set the price point of their devices really low. And the lesson seems to have struck a chord with Amazon, which is planning to launch its new range of tablets later this year.
According to the rumors buzzing around, Amazon tablets may actually be priced for "hundreds less" than the iPad. Amazon so far has not provided any ballpark figure for its upcoming tablets. It also seems like that Amazon is planning to test a new model, which is more closely aligned with mobile phone plans. The online retailer is apparently going to make the hardware available at the cheaper, but will make money selling content for that hardware. However, the strategy will only work if the users are willing to shell out money for buying content. If we loos at the app sales stats, then most of the paid apps fail to sell well. In such a scenario, Amazon may find it difficult to hawk the content and make users pay for that.
Amazon is in the process of releasing its Android power tablet during some time in September or October this year. The tablet is likely to feature 9-inch screen with a dual core processor. The other more powerful tablet will contain quad core processors.