Amazon reportedly plans to offer a $50 tablet in time for the holiday shopping season. The 6-inch tablet would sell for half the price of the Fire HD 6. A $50 price point would make a tablet disposable to some and finally affordable to others — points apparently not lost on Amazon. Though there’s no argument it would be a killer price point, there remains the question of quality in a tablet with features cut to limbo under the $50 bar, suggested Roger Entner, principal analyst for Recon Analytics.
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Report: Amazon to Build Cut-Rate Slate
Posted by: Quinten Plummer September 8, 2015 04:39 PMAmazon reportedly plans to offer a $50 tablet in time for the holiday shopping season. The 6-inch tablet would sell for half the price of the Fire HD 6. A $50 price point would make a tablet disposable to some and finally affordable to others — points apparently not lost on Amazon. Though there’s no argument it would be a killer price point, there remains the question of quality in a tablet with features cut to limbo under the $50 bar, suggested Roger Entner, principal analyst for Recon Analytics.