Orange seems to be the latest company to jump on the iPad-shaped bandwagon, with a new report claiming that it is working on its own tablet computer.
Les Echos, a French newspaper, is claiming that an Android tablet is being manufactured by a "large Asian manufacturer" which will end up being one of the cheapest on the market.
The tablet is said to be priced at around 250 Euros – a smidge over £200.
3G ready
The tablet would come with Orange branding and would be 3G enabled, which would mean that Orange would be able to offer subscriptions for the data package.
As the article states, this wouldn't actually be the first time that Orange has tried its hand at tablet computing.
Back in 2009, Orange released the Tabbeee, a tablet which housed a seven-inch touchscreen and was branded as a 'tablet organiser'.
It only actually made it to the French market, so fingers crossed that its latest attempt at making a tablet makes it across the pond.
Via Cnet UK
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russparkin
August 27th 2010
3. the tabeeeee looks like someone has vomited it up so if they use that as a basis apple might use them as toilet roll. no hope
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calum
August 26th 2010
2. Orange offers a wide range of its own handsets all named after cities all over the world, Amsterdam, Miami, Lisbon, Rio etc... and all manufactured by an Asian company ZTE so this seems to make sense. However, considering the very low volume of micro SIMs for the (max)iPad connected on the Orange UK network I would doubt that it would make it the jump from France Telecom to Orange.
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backstroker
August 26th 2010
1. Hmmm. Orange, of course, has a past history of branded smartphones from a large Asian manufacturer now with its own rapidly-evolving Android phone range and no tablet rumours on its own account.
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