It looks like there could soon be a new ultra-affordable Android tablet KING back in town, in the shape of the Kogan Agora 7. It’s a 7″ Android tablet, with a 1GHz processor, running Android 2.3.
The big news is… a capacitive screen and a direct-from-the-maker retail price of £120. This could decimate everything else if Kogan does manage to get it out for that price in reasonable numbers.
The £120 price comes from the description beneath the video, uploaded by Kogan itself, plus it’s listed for the same cost – and even a little less if you pre-order now – over on the Kogan web store…
…with a July 8 launch date attached to the arrival of the next batch of stock. The initial run was first announced this back in April and there are a few reviews out there of this batch of tablets. None overly complementary, but then for £120…
HTC’s 4.3″ dual-core Android model, powered by Qualcomm’s all-new S4 processor. It’s smaller than the enormous One X, but is it as nice as its bigger brother? (SPOILER: Yes it is).
HTC is very much B-A-C-K at the top of the Android world with this, its quad-core flagship for 2012. Great camera, huge 4.7″ display and Android 4.0 running beautifully well.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
acupuncture
/ June 14, 2011In another year we’ll be seeing decent tablets around that price I expect but for now that price will more than likely be something you want to get for the kids to play with.
David
/ June 14, 2011I can never remember which is the good screen, capacitive or resistive. Google here we come.
David
/ June 14, 2011ooh. capacitive is the good one. very interesting…
Stuart Foy
/ June 14, 2011Some competition for the AndyPad?
Bristolboy
/ June 14, 2011It does look like a decent proposition. I am still waiting for a sub £100 tablet though as this will be the price at which they will truly become mainstream…
Rob
/ June 15, 2011Pretty awful review: http://r-views.blogspot.com/2011/06/kogan-agora-7-android-tablet.html
Device keeps turning itself on and off unless it is left in airplane mode which means one cannot use wifi. Screen is awful. etc. Shame, I usually like Kogan, but while it is cheap, it is still too expensive for something that doesn’t work!
richie
/ June 22, 2011I should get mine tomorrow if the dispatch is to be belived.
I’ll post some comments up after I have had a play with it.
Latest real users reviews look good, formal reviews all look bad but I will make my own mind up.
Gary C
/ June 22, 2011That’d be ace. I think some reviews don’t take into account the price. When you’re spending your own money on it, it’s much more of a consideration.
richie
/ June 28, 2011I am very happy with it.
It does have some issues – but hopefully they can be sorted with updates.
Using screen when charging is very nasty – touch does not work well then. Waking up when in standby to check for something – means battery does not last great – but I have been getting about 5 hours use from mine and that is with wireless on for nearly all of that! For the 100 GB pounds I paid I am very happy.
James van de Vyver
/ June 23, 2011Just received mine (I’m in the UK).
Started the unit up and logged into the market. The unit works fine thus far.
Then I installed Flash 10.3 and now the unit does not come out of sleep mode, after a few minutes down time, using any of the buttons (sleep of death).
The only method of recovery is to press the reset button on the rear of the unit which brings the unit up again but I will have lost any context and any unsaved data in the process.
I have repeated this procedure three times now following factory data resets and the problem I describe is 100% repeatable.
If Kogan do not sort this out ASAP I will be returning the unit.
Does anyone else have this problem?
Richie
/ June 28, 2011OK, so I have done some benchmarks for those that like them. It will also help in gauging what updated SW does and how other OS versions perform once rooting is sorted out.
My Kogan is stock; wireless was connected, all tests performed with battery. All tests done 5 times and average shown.
These tests cover CPU and Graphics (Mali-400) as well as other things. Applications all from Marketplace. There are lots of other benchmarking apps out there but I’ve just used these. It just goes to show that they are not foolproof when you get such varying results.
Quadrant: 959, 1030, 1071, 1236, 1273. Average= 1114
NeoCore: 32.4, 32.3, 32.4, 32.2, 32.4. Average= 32.3
NenaMark1: 26.9, 27.1, 26.7, 26.9, 27.0. Average= 26.9
AnTuTu: 1447, 1502, 1465, 1498, 1470. Average= 1476
SmartBench 2010 Prod: 757, 718, 744, 755, 790. Average= 752
SmartBench 2010 Games: 1193, 1108, 1116, 1192, 1155. Average= 1153
Linpack: 14.2, 15.1, 15.1, 14.3, 15.1. Average= 14.7
steve hoole
/ June 28, 2011Recived my tablet the other day and the speaker blew the first time i used it, hope the second one is better!