Tablets are overtaking notebooks and becoming a major computing sector. Australian telco Telstra will market its own branded tablet this year which will be made in China.
Telstra’s T-Touch Tab will be priced a little under US$300, compared with US$1,000 for the top-end iPad and US$999 for the Samsung Galaxy Tab which is going on sale next month.
The T-Touch Tab will run a version of the Android operating system and has a 7-inch display – much smaller than Apple’s iPad but similar to the other Android models flagged.
This tablet will be made by Huawei. A Telstra executive said the company expects to sell 200,000 units of the T-Touch Tab.
SMH.com.au reports that IDC expects tablet computer sales to explode globally from 7.6 million units this year to more than 46 million units in 2014. Most will be made in China.
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