Walmart’s $99 Android tablet actually looks pretty good

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  The Onn.8 Tablet Pro. [credit: Walmart ]

When you think of cheap Android tablets, you probably think of the Amazon Fire series, but Walmart is also in the game with its in-house "Onn" tablets. As spotted by 9to5Google, recently Walmart started selling two new models of its Onn tablet: the 8-inch "Onn.8 Tablet Pro" for $99, and the 10-inch "Onn.10.1 Tablet Pro" for $129. Surprisingly, we are not here to mock the $99 Walmart tablet, because it actually looks pretty good! You get Google Play, which is a major upgrade over the Google-less Amazon Fire tablets, plus Android 10, a shockingly-modern USB-C port, and an "HD" display.

Walmart is not great at this whole "selling electronics" thing and doesn't list the usual official detailed stats. The 8-inch model's "HD Display" could mean a resolution as low as 720p. Last year's version of this device (this is the second generation) had a 1280×800 LCD, which would qualify for the "HD" tag and would be comparable to the closest Amazon device, the Fire HD 8 Plus.

The SoC is unhelpfully listed as a "2.0 GHz Octa-core processor" but an earlier leak pegged both tablets with a 2.0 GHz MediaTek "MT8768WA" SoC. The MT8768 features eight Cortex-A53 cores and a 650Mz PowerVR GE8320 GPU. The CPU cores are one of the first 64-bit cores ARM ever produced and were originally introduced in 2012. I can't find detailed specs on this exact model, but other MT87xx SoCs, which also use Cortex A53 cores, are built on a 28nm process. So yeah, it's cheap.

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