Kogan Agora tablet gets a free hardware upgrade

ELECTRONICS MAKER Kogan has announced hardware upgrades to its Agora tablet at no extra charge.

Kogan has admitted that it advertised an incorrect specification list at first, which it has now corrected, and it announced a number of hardware changes - all improvements - that will appear on the tablet at no extra cost.

The tablet still has a 1GHz processor, as we mentioned earlier, but now it has an additional dedicated 200MHz graphics processor. The front facing camera is now a 2MP device, which we had formerly told you would be only 1.3MP.

There are further changes with the USB interface, which Kogan has said will be compatible with 3G dongles and external storage devices with sizes up to 1TB.

Although Kogan made no mention of it, we've spotted that the tablet's product page now claims the tablet will come with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, not Android 2.2 Froyo as we reported previously. The other specifications seem to be all in order with 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage and HDMI output.

We wrote about the Agora tablet back in April and its low price of £89 grabbed some attention, with one reader commenting, "What the heck? At that price there is no room for complaints."

That £89 "live price" - a constantly changing pre order price - is, a month later, still just the respectably reasonable sum of £99.

The Agora is in direct competition with tablets like the Archos 70, which also has a 7in screen, the same 1GHz processor and similar connectivity such as a full size USB port. However, the Archos 70 is double the price of the Kogan Agora at around £200. µ