Price points continue to slide on Android tablets — including decent ones, not just the slower, resistive display-packing Shanzai models you see up for sale all over eBay. Vizio and Acer have already outed new sub-10-inch models that hover around the $300 mark, and Viewsonic is going to go even lower. As it did with its NVIDIA-poweredgTablet, Viewsonic will be putting the Viewpad 7e up for sale at an aggressive price point: about $240.
That’s based on the Viewpad 7e’s UK pricing of £140, so it could actually wind up priced a few dollars less. The 7-inch tablet will feature a 4:3 display and it’s been confirmed to be running Android 2.3 Gingerbread. For connectivity, unspecified flavors of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth will be on board and an HDMI port will provide video-out capabilities. It’s not specifically mentioned in Viewsonic’s press materials, but that appears to be a front-facing camera as well — so you should be able to take advantage of video conferencing apps like Skype, Fring, and Google Talk on the Viewpad 7e.
The 4:3 aspect ratio and eReader-like size should make the Viewpad 7e well-suited to digital reading duties. Viewsonic seems to think so, at any rate, and has decided to include the Amazon Kindle app pre-installed.
It’s almost as if Viewsonic is trying to steal a bit of Amazon’s thunder — as you’re no doubt aware, they’ve got at least two Android tablets in the works that are due to arrive some time before the holiday season this year. They were originally rumored to be arriving this month, but that obviously didn’t happen
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