{"id":40587,"date":"2012-01-05T10:50:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T08:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=40587"},"modified":"2012-01-05T11:18:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T09:18:19","slug":"google-tablet-to-take-on-kindle-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/40587-google-tablet-to-take-on-kindle-fire.html","title":{"rendered":"Google tablet to take on Kindle Fire?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan based news site <em>Digitimes<\/em> has reported that it\u2019s \u201csources\u201d in Google\u2019s upstream supply chain believe the search giant is busy working on a 7-inch class device to compete with <a title=\"Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/356046-Amazon\">Amazon\u2019s<\/a> successful Kindle Fire tablet PC.<\/p>\n<p>These sources expect the <a title=\"Android Mobile Oerating System\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android<\/a> tablet to arrive in Autumn 2012, and be priced below $299 (R2,432) to compete effectively with Amazon\u2019s $199 budget offering.<\/p>\n<p>This new report follows a previous <a title=\"report by Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/8301-17918_1-57345214-85\/google-may-be-planning-high-end-tablet-to-combat-the-ipad\/?tag=mncol;txt\" target=\"_blank\">report by Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera<\/a> who claim Google chairman <a title=\"Eric Schmidt\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/360166-Eric-Schmidt\">Eric Schmidt<\/a> mentioned that the company plans to \u201cmarket a tablet of the highest quality\u201d within the next six months.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a> has refused to comment on the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1023_3-57352642-93\/now-its-a-google-tablet-that-will-challenge-kindle-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kindle challenger originally thought to be a small iPad may actually be a Google tablet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":26793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[723,397,1627,167],"class_list":["post-40587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-android","tag-eric-schmidt","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40591,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40587\/revisions\/40591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}