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Argos Android tablet bandwagon with £99 MyTablet

    UK supermarkets carrying their own branded tablets is apparently a thing now, and Argos has joined Tesco with its launch of the 7-inch MyTablet.
    The slate will come with 8GB of storage (compared with the Hudls 16GB), run on Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 and arrive with apps like Angry Birds, Facebook, Twitter and the BBC iPlayer built in. Theres a 1024 x 600 LCD display and a 1.6GHz dual core processor doing the hard labour. Battery life is listed at 5-hours with  0.3-megapixel front-facing camera and the 2-megapixel rear snapper. and Wi-Fi and BlueTooth connectivity.


The tablet will cost £99.99 ($160) and will go on sale from Wednesday.

Argos says it is targeting kids, and in particular those aged between 8-13 years-old (MyTablet will include parental controls), as Simon Barry, Argos’ technology trading manager, told the BBC:
   Kids find it hard to share, so we’ve priced our tablet at a level that means everyone in the family can have one.
    We know a lot of families are probably feeling worse off [financially] this Christmas than last. We’re confident MyTablet is going to do really well.
  Tesco says it sold 35,000 of its £119 Hudl device within ‘a few days’ of its launch. With British shoppers tipped to buy 8 million tablets per year, it will be interesting to see how MyTablet fares.