Orange UK has begun selling its first own-branded tablet, the Android-powered Tahiti.
"We're pleased to be expanding our portfolio of own-brand devices into tablets for the first time," Paul Jevons, product chief at Orange UK parent Everything Everywhere, said in a statement on Tuesday. "The Tahiti is a stylish, lightweight device with a great-quality screen, which we believe will help customers to get the most out of their multimedia content whilst on the go."
The seven-incher runs the 'Honeycomb' 3.2 variant of Android on a dual-core, 1.2GHz Qualcomm processor. It has a capacitive multitouch touchscreen, rather than a resistive one.
The tablet costs £70 on a two-year, £25-per-month data contract. It also comes for free when bundled with the second version of Orange's low-cost San Francisco Android phone, on a two-year, £41-per-month combined contract.
Orange has not revealed any plans to release the tablet on a contract-free, unsubsidised basis.
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Talkback
Orange are living in cloud cuckoo land with those contract prices.
TCO = 670
or TCO Tablet+San Fran II = 984
Even if you factor in a £15 a month sim only contract (360) = 624 for phone+tablet?
The phones worth £60-£80 at most.
Its still ridiculous.
£250 is your circa Android Tablet now in 2012.