Android tab, media player half-off on Groupon

The floor for tablet pricing has fallen out again. Today, Groupon is offering an Android-based tablet for only $129 through its Groupon Goods program.

Granted, it's not the most drool-worthy tab out there. Groupon is selling a limited number of Skytex Primer Pocket media players and Skypad Alpha tablets at a 50 percent discount. The Primer Pocket is a 4.3-inch Android-based iPod Touch knock-off running FroYo (Android 2.2), while the Skypad Alpha is a 7-inch slate that comes with Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
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The Primer Pocket is available through the deal for $65, which may be half off retail, but the bare-bones 4GB Wi-Fi device with a 600MHz processor and 256MB of RAM can easily be had on Amazon and elsewhere for around $83.

Los Angeles-based Skytex also makes the Skypad Alpha tablet, which normally retails for $199 (currently selling for $155 on Amazon) but is priced at $129 for the limited-time deal. Its specs include a Freescale i.MX515 Cortex-A8 processor (800MHz +200MHz DSP); Flash; OpenGL; 512MB of RAM; 4GB of storage that's expandable to 32GB; a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera; Bluetooth; and Wi-Fi.

Skytex definitely qualifies as a no-name device maker. It's hard to even find reviews of its products, although they seem to rate ... [Read more]