Just had a talk with one of the industry people today and they
mentioned that Solid Group, Inc. (SGI), the local MyPhone manufacturer,
will be launching their own branded Android tablet in the Philippines.
No details are available yet but I’m looking into verifying this
story and getting more details and pricing about their tablet. My guess
is that it will come from one of those OEMs in China. The tablet is said
to be named
MyTablet.
SGI earned a reportedly Php2 billion in unit sales for the fiscal
year 2010 — that’s a 9-fold sales increase from their performance in
2009.
With that volume, it’s not a surprise they’ll also going into the
growing tablet market. If that’s the case, we should we be seeing really
cheap (like under 10k or even closer to 5k) Android tablets real soon?
Local competitor, Cherry Mobile, already has an Android tablet since
last year so the one from MyPhone won’t be a first.
Posted by: YugaTech