Kogan tries 3-pronged approach with new consumer electronics releases

Kogan Electronics of Australia will be rolling out three more devices that are extremely pocket friendly – we’re talking about an Android-powered tablet, an Ubuntu notebook and a set-top-box which delivers the Android environment right smack into the middle of your living room over a TV. Bear in mind that the figures quoted here would be in the Australian currency, which incidentally is more expensive compared to the beleaguered US dollar at the moment. The Android-powered Agora tablet is going for AUD$140, and will ship at the end of May onwards with a 1GHz Samsung processor, a 7″capacitive touchscren display at 1024 x 600 resolution, 512MB RAM and a 3600mAh battery. Interestingly enough, the Agora is powered by Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb – now that ought to make you sit up and take notice.

As for the Internet TV Portal, it will retail between $149 and $199, letting one run Android apps on a big screen TV. The set top box itself will be accompanied by a special remote control that might be mistaken by some as an Android smartphone, since it boasts of Android buttons (apart from the navigation buttons, of course). The Internet TV Portal is slated for a May 27th release.

Last but not least, the Kogan Agora laptop isn’t the bees knees – far from it, in fact, since this is an extremely basic computing machine with a 1.2GHz Intel Celeron SU2300 processor, 1GB RAM and a 250GB hard drive, cramming in an 11.6″ display in the process, with specifications that seem more 2009 than 2011. Since it runs off Ubuntu 11.04 Linux instead of Windows 7, that ought to drive the price down a bit, which is why it starts from AUD$300 to around AUD$349.

Edwin Kee
Categories: Gadgets
Tags: kogan, Tablet