Gone are the days when you had to spend heavy prices for gadgets like laptops, tablets, smartphones. All the big names in the industry have introduced devices in almost all the possible price ranges.
If you want to buy a budget tablet PC and if you are happy with the basic features and decent performance, there are number of good yet cheap tablet PCs available in the market.
This compilation of best tablet PCs under $300 would surely prove to be helpful if you are looking for a decent and low end tablet PC with minimum needs.
7 Best Tablet PCs Under $300 Of 2012
Acer Iconia TAB A100-07U08U
- NVIDIA® Tegra 2 Dual Core Mobile Processor
- 7” HD Multi-Touch Display
- 1 GB of DDR2 RAM
- 8GB Internal Storage (expandable upto 32 GB)
- 5MP Rear Facing Camera and 2MP Front Facing Camera
- 4-hours battery life for Video Playback
- Measures 4.6 x 7.7 x 0.5 inches
- Weighs 14.7 ounces
- Price – $278
Amazon Kindle Fire
- 7″ multi-touch display
- 8GB internal storage
- Battery – 8 hours of reading, 7.5 hours of video playback
- Measures 190 mm x 120 mm x 11.4 mm
- Weighs 413 grams
- Price- $199
Archos 80 G9
- 1 GHz multi-core ARM CORTEX A9 processor
- 8 / 16 GB of Flash memory or 250 GB of HDD memory
- 8 in MVA LCD
- Battery – 36 hours of music playback, 7 hours of video playback
- Measures 8.90 x 6.11 x 0.46 inch (the Flash storage model) and 8.90 x 6.11 x 0.58 inch (HDD storage model)
- Weighs 17 ounces (the Flash storage model) and 21.9 ounces(HDD storage model)
- Price $247
Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet
- 1GHz Texas Instruments, OMAP 4 dual core processor
- 7 inch IPS TFT display
- 1GB of RAM
- 16GB of storage space (integrated with device)
- Battery – 11.5 hours of reading, 9 hours of video playback
- Measures 8.1 inches (H) x 5 inches (W) x 0.5 inches (D)
- Weighs 14.1 oz
- Price – $249
HP TouchPad Wi-Fi 16 GB 9.7-Inch Tablet
- 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual-CPU APQ8060 processor
- 9.7-inch diagonal LED backlit multitouch display
- HP webOS 3.0
- 1GB of DDR2 RAM
- 16 GB of storage memory
- Adreno 220 graphics support
- Measures 0.5 x 7.5 x 9.4 inches
- Weighs 1.6 pounds
- Battery – 5.25 hours of normal use
- Price $289
HTC EVO View 4G
- 1.5 GHz MSM8655 processor
- Android 2.3 OS with HTC Sense technology
- 7″ inch LPDDR2 display
- 1GB of RAM
- 32 GB of Internal memory
- 5MP Rear Facing Camera and 1.3 MP Front Facing Camera
- Measures 7.69″ (L) x 4.42″ (W) x 0.52″ (T)
- Price – $300
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2
- 1GHz Dual-Core Processor
- 7-inch Multitouch 720p HD Screen
- 1GB of RAM
- 8GB Internal Memory (expandable upto 32GB)
- Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
- Measures 4.8 x 0.4 x 7.6 inches
- Weighs 12.2 ounces
- Price – $249