Coby Kyros MID7015: Give People Tablets!

Looks like iPads have faced their killer.

Samsung has officially sold a million Galaxy Tabs. Just a couple of weeks ago they were boasting about having sold the whole 600'000 of them which was a true manifest of Galaxies being the most popular Android tablet in the market. And all of a sudden, two weeks later Samsung celebrates the first million of devices sold around the world! Considering the fact that they were aiming to hit that target by the end of the year, that's quite an underestimation of one's potential.

The producer has now carefully planned another sales impact: it's aiming at 1.5 million of gadgets sold around the globe by the end of this month, which, again, is very likely to happen sooner than the deadline. People are advanced and involved. Watching movies and reading e-books is a lot more convenient with a large screen, and touch pads are so futuristic — it makes you want to do whatever looks fancy or takes away boredom or has anything to do with your work.

The wave of tablet sales is overwhelming and everyone wants to take advantage of it. As iPad application developers, we are happy to see the new opportunities for our business, but as consumers, we are also concerned with accessibility of tablets.

Now, we know that the Apple iPad still costs $499 and Galaxy Tabs are well over $600, so it was just logical for the Coby company to break out with its budget Coby Kyros MID7015 tablet. For just $250 you get the 7-inch device that boasts an 800 x 480 resolution, is powered by Android 2.1, has an 800MHz processor and 4GB of internal storage + a microSD slot. You really get the basic set of functions sufficient to enjoy video with a 720p and 1080p resolution and a classical tablet operation.

A tablet price fall within Apple and Samsung will most likely not happen soon, so the new Coby Kyros will no doubt augment the number of tablet users dramatically. Sometimes all you have to be is budget, and when you offer decent functions — that is one genius break out. Happy time for Android developers, too.