Vivo might be about to launch an affordable Android tablet
A trademark has been filed
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Vivo is best known for itsaffordable Android phones, but it looks as though the Chinese tech company is planning to launch a larger device in the not-too-distant future: a trademark for the name Vivo Pad has just been logged with the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO).
As spotted byGSMArena, the filing indicates a Class 9 device, which covers categories such as PDAs and tablets. Otherwise, there’s very little in the way of actual information here – just an indication that this device is likely to be on the way.
This isn’t actually a brand new rumor, because we’ve been hearing whispers about a Vivo tablet for a while, but it is perhaps the most solid bit of evidence about the device so far. The first Vivo tablet wasoriginally tippedto arrive in January, though that didn’t happen.
As for predicting when the Vivo Pad (or whatever it ends up being called) will actually see the light of day, it’s difficult to be any more precise than “sometime soon” – these kinds of filings are usually made relatively close to a product launch, so we might well get an appearance from the tablet in the next couple of months.
Incoming tablets
With very little information and nothing in the way of specs to go off, we’re left extrapolating what Vivo does with its phones to try and figure out what a Vivo tablet might involve. Expect a solid build quality and an affordable price when it arrives.
We could certainly do with a few more budget Android tablets to take on the mighty iPad. At the momentthe Amazon Fire tabletsare perhaps the best option for inexpensive slates that aren’t the iPad, butAmazon’s Fire OS misses out on theGoogle Play StoreandGoogle’s suite of mobile apps.
Samsungmakes some veryimpressive Android tabletsas well, across a wide range of price points, but we’d certainly welcome some extra competition – and Vivo has the scale and manufacturing know-how to put together a solid device.
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As GSMArena notes, both Oppo and Realme are rumored to be working on tablets of their own, so it looks as though we’ll soon have quite a few new models to pick from besides the slates currently on the market.
Dave is a freelance tech journalist who has been writing about gadgets, apps and the web for more than two decades. Based out of Stockport, England, on TechRadar you’ll find him covering news, features and reviews, particularly for phones, tablets and wearables. Working to ensure our breaking news coverage is the best in the business over weekends, David also has bylines at Gizmodo, T3, PopSci and a few other places besides, as well as being many years editing the likes of PC Explorer and The Hardware Handbook.
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