Would you buy an Android tablet while you’re picking up the milk and bread? Aldi may shortly be selling Medion Android tablets and phones.
If you’ve ever stopped to look at the computers that Aldi sells in its stores, you would have noted that they’re all branded as Medion computers. Pocketlint reports on Medion showing off an Android tablet and smartphone at IFA 2011. Pockelint weren’t allowed to take photos of the booth (which is a little odd in itself; surely the point of showing off gadgets at IFA is to show off gadgets), although there is also a teaser trailer that shows the exact same product. Odd.
The Medion Lifetab P9514 Android tablet specifications seem reasonable, with a dual-core Tegra 2 processor, 32GB storage, HDMI, USB and quad-band 3G on offer under Honeycomb 3.2. Specifications on the phone are a little more thin; all that’s stated is that it’s a 4.3-inch Gingerbread phone. No word yet on pricing or for that matter whether we’ll see it locally or not, but if it’s like anything else Aldi, expect it to turn up in catalogues and stores for a very limited time only. Meanwhile, if you fancy checking out some Medion gear, Lifehacker has an Aldi competition running right now. [PocketLint via Phandroid]
BenDTU
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 11:09 AMThis really isn’t surprising in the slightest, for multiple reasons.
Fistbeard McTavish
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 11:09 AMBecause everyone will want a Tablet / Phone which will have a hardware failure within 6 months and then have to deal with the absolutely shitty Medion customer support!
Stephen
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 11:31 AMMedion generally produces decent products with decent specs. But I’ll stick with my $149 TouchPad.
Cameron
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 11:36 AMWhich you can’t actually buy.
Jonathan
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 2:08 PMBut we already have, Cameron.
We already have >:D
Stephen
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 2:55 PMAnd that’s the point:).
Cameron
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 3:33 PMThis comment has been deemed inappropriate and has been deleted
olearymo
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 4:12 PMIs that REALLY necessary, Cameron? I’m sure it makes you feel like a big man, but do you really need to use that word? Grow up will you?
Cameron
Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 8:28 AMVery appropriate. The words I use appropriately represent the frustration with dealing with some of the scum that visit this website. If you don’t like it perhaps you should invest in a web blocking application so you don’t accidentally get corrupted by words people use in the real world.
Cameron
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 11:39 AMI’m interested. Need more specs on the Tablet though. Like what screen size is it?
Also given Aldi’s record with these types of products, the sale of them will be horrible and involve being sold out 36 seconds after they go on sale.
If there is 1 thing I can’t stand it’s companies that sell things in limited quantities.
LGB
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 12:39 PMAt the price I’ve seen being talked about..
They’ll be sitting in the glass cabinet at the front of Aldi stores everywhere for a long time..
Sorry but for that price, I’d buy a name brand not Yum-Cha.
Michael
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 2:04 PMWill it come with a free virus?
Kroo
Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 7:28 AMI wouldn’t buy any tech stuff from Aldi. Like every USB stick I bought and then failed within weeks, I’ve learnt my lesson. Next we’ll see Android tablets on the road side for hard rubbish collection, as with all those pc’s. I still laugh at that.
Karolina
Sunday, April 1, 2012 at 9:12 AMOne word for y’all. Thrive . I’ve seen the tech for a while now. Apple, HTC, Moto, Samsung, Microsoft, etc . I just couldn’t see it. Then Toshiba went and did ionethsmg unusual, they made a device that was usable. No, it isn’t the fastest, the sveltest, (definitely) not the thinnest (though I’m fairly sure they possess the know-how and ability to do so if they wished). Instead, they designed a product that could be used! Imagine that! It’s nice to hold, has all the ports we could use off-the-bat, easily expandable storage, removable battery (along with the back-plate mind you) and it genuinely looks as if they actually asked people what they wanted from the damned things. So what if the iPad and Sammy can slice through cheese! Who cares. Given the recent leaks of Nvidia chip sets (quad-core Tegra 3 or Qualcomms and TI’s new beasts) and with Microsoft REALLY making strides to provide really ergonomic-esqe and efficient software, combine that with forward thinking devices with thoughtful design aimed at the user-experience, there’s no doubt in my mind that tablet PC’s are here to stay. Congratulations Toshiba for impressing me with your underwhelming product! (and I mean that in a really kick-ass-grateful kind of way)