Trying to make an impact on the tablet market means that the product has to be low in price or high in specs, achieving this is difficult, but if were easy everyone would be doing it! However, Augen are in the bottom end of the market, there is nothing wrong with that so as the product is good, in the past they have struggled.
But now there is a new range of Augen tablets, these will be launched at the CES 2011 and will offer a seven to ten inch displays to attack the market.
These are some of the details released by Augen regarding the Gen Touch 78:
Augen is brewing a new exciting 7-10″ Gentouch Espresso line aggressively priced, with a capacitive multi-touch screen and loaded features at CES 2011. We used all the ingredients that you gave us to brew this new espresso line. You have tried our cup of coffee, and soon take a sip of our espresso. The Espresso family line will be priced starting at an MSRP of $199.99 to $399.99 featuring resistive and multi-touch capacitive screens, an improved battery life (up to 10 hours), Wi-Fi, 3 axis accelerometer, more storage space, and much more… Augen is announcing a new proprietary technology preloaded which brings a human factor to our line of PC tablets, which incorporates a form of human friendly input.
Priced will start at around $200
Source [Endgadet]
