Orange outs own-brand Tahiti Android tablet

Summary: The seven-inch tablet comes on two-year contract terms and runs the Honeycomb variant of Android

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Tahiti tablet front

Orange's Tahiti comes with Honeycomb, the first version of Android designed specifically for tablets. There are no plans to upgrade the device to Ice Cream Sandwich, the operator told ZDNet UK.

Ice Cream Sandwich, or Android 4.0, is optimised for both smartphones and tablets. This makes it more attractive to developers, who may want to code apps for tablets while still having the safety cushion of a smartphone customer base, as Nvidia chief Jen-Hsung Huang noted on Monday.

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  • 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.
    SoapyTablet