What most people do with their tablets? Browsing internet, reading books/documents, Angry Birds, etc. Nothing complicated.
It doesn't make sense to compare price of FonePad in India with price of Nexus 7 in USA. Just check prices of Nexus 7 in India. Usually entry level 16GB model (without 3G and SD) is priced higher than FonePad
The other components, besides the processor, will make a greater difference. Can you honestly expect everything to be "that good" if the processor is cutting into the margins of an OEM ?
The nexus 7 was only introduced last month IIRC, I dunno why but they're price gouging on that device & btw nexus 10 is still officially not launched in India. A fair comparison would be in places where the nexus device was available at launch time & likewise for the FonePad.
Yes I can see where you're going with this but I'd like to know how many of these sell in the real marketplace ? If this was a niche market then Intel would do better by going after the likes of an S4 class phone which actually makes money, in this range its all about volumes & I don't see any data that these vanilla test products are selling even remotely close to say a nexus 7.
Fair enough but in the long run the sales numbers is what'll matter in the end, even after discounting the fact that it'll be nearly a year since Nexus 7 was launched that device is still selling like hotcakes.
Conversely the nexus devices are ridiculously expensive everywhere else :\
Temash tablets will run full fledged Win8-x64.
I'm assuming that the AMD based tablets would run Android, but even if they are not supposed to who'll make money(for Intel) in that 200$ & still be able to run a full fledged linux OS on a tablet ?
Only this time the enemy of their enemy is also their enemy, I don't see any other ARM vendor being given a free pass just to screw Qualcomm D:Well, Intel will only allow its fabs to companies that do not hurt its bread and butter. Its current disclosed clientele of Altera (FPGA), Netronome (networking) and Cisco (networking) do not compete with Intel's MPU/CPU/SOC (yet) and hence will bring only rewards and little risk.
Any ARM based SOC manufacturer will be a non-starter unless Intel specifically choses someone so as to provide them a leg-up.
Right now Intel's competitor (per Intel's own words a year/two back) is not AMD but Qualcomm. And to answer their paranoia, the market cap of QCM and Intel are now comparable (betn Nov12 to Mar13 there were times that QCM was valued more). So if Intel is unable to get anywhere in mobile x86 and it wants to screw Qualcomm, only then it will allow a QCM competitor to fab chips at its fabs..
I hope this gives AMD a kick in its arse as to not limit its tablets to Windows and think about actively supporting Android eco-system.
From all indications including a one on one with AMD CEO Rory in the Morgan Stanley Tech conference in March 2013, it seems RR is still believing (in my opinion foolishly) on Windows to be successful over Android.
I was specifically talking about the 200$ price range, anyways the surface RT/pro tablets will be probably in the range of 300$ & more so this supposed Intel offering will not be a direct competitor not to mention MS will actually push for its(Temash) adoption. Personally I feel that win8 from MS is better than Android especially for a tablet & performs much better, on similar/limited hardware, than Android. The thing with Intel & MS now is that neither of them can afford each other in the low margin, high volume business(smartphones/tablets) where most of the growth is coming from !
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