Lowest cost Android tablet as a component?

I just found this Scroll 4" Android tablet in CPC's latest catalogue, and since it features a Cortex-A8 with 512MB RAM, "BBB with LCD" immediately sprang to mind. Of course it's not that, and it has a totally non-viable spec for a tablet in 2013, but the pre-VAT price of £29.95 appeals to my liking of nanoscale pricing.

At that price it could even be used as a component, for example bolted onto the front of a 3D printer as an UI panel.

Does anyone know of an even cheaper non-eBay Android tablet with at least a Cortex-A8 CPU? (This tablet's SoC is an Allwinner A13 like on Olimex's A13-OLinuXino range of boards.)

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Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to morgaine

To which open source has a strongly recommended solution, which is to push changes upstream.

That only works to the degree that upstream is receptive.
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morgaine over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

Hopefully being paid by E14 makes them more receptive.
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morgaine over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

selsinork wrote:

This weeks CPC mail shot arrived with another cheap tablet http://cpc.farnell.com/goclever/r70kb/tablet-7-k-b-bundle-tab-r70-kb/dp/SB05246?Ntt=sb05246

My opening post linked CPC's cheapest Cortex-A8 tablet, and yours linked their cheapest Cortex-A9 device (RockChip RK2926 is single core unlike most other A9-based SoCs). And taking ARM technology one step further, here's their cheapest Cortex-A7 tablet, based on the dual-core Boxchip A20 SoC.

Unfortunately the technology increment made the price leap up significantly, probably beyond "use tablet as a component" pricing, but that problem won't last.
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Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to morgaine

Morgaine Dinova wrote:

Unfortunately the technology increment made the price leap up significantly, probably beyond "use tablet as a component" pricing, but that problem won't last.
Oh yeah, that's a big jump. Single core A9 to dual A7 really shouldn't have to be that big.
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