Even running Android Go, it’s incredibly slow, taking multiple seconds to return to the Home screen or change from portrait to landscape. It also has a surprising lack of pack-in apps, with only a couple of “Saga” games from King.īut to be frank, eighty bucks might be a little much to ask for this thing. It’s running Android 10 Go, which isn’t the latest version but is perhaps more than you might expect from a tablet sold for just eighty bucks. On the positive side, it’s using USB-C for charging and has a MicroSD card slot for expansion, both of which are not a given at this price point.
3 MP or 2 MP, depending on where you look. (It’s two.) They agree that it’s using a 5 megapixel rear camera, but the front camera is either. There’s no information on the processor aside from the fact that it has four cores, and once again there’s conflicting information on various spec sheets as to whether it has one or two gigabytes of RAM. The spec list is pretty predictable for a budget tablet. (The latter was true of our review unit). Gateway’s website says that it’s a “1080p screen” that’s “Tuned by THX,” but the full spec sheet elsewhere says it has a notably lower resolution of 1280×800. Our review unit came with a deep purple plastic body, though black and teal are also available. Gateway is offering two Android tablets in this line-8-inch and 10-inch-and I asked for the latter. 10-inch Gateway Android Tablet: An Alternative to Amazon But that $600 $480 laptop is a pretty darn good deal if you’re willing to overlook a couple of annoying issues. My results on two out of three of these gadgets were less than surprising. The prices on the latter two turned out to be even lower, at least at the time of writing. I decided to check out a few, getting a cross-section of the budget line: an $80 10-inch tablet, a $300 ultraportable 2-in-1, and a $600 15-inch laptop with some surprising specs. Michael Crider / Review Geekīut just because these computers are rebadged doesn’t mean that they’re bad, and just because they’re cheap doesn’t mean that they aren’t worth buying. They come in some fresh colors, including the fetching teal and purple of these review units. They’re created by Bmorn Technology out of Shenzen, licensing the Gateway name to place on existing whitebox designs. It’s been owned by Acer since 2007, with little to no product since, but these new computers aren’t made by Acer. Gateway was a mainstay of American PCs in the late 1990s and early 2000s, back when the appeal of configuring your own PC online and ordering it “custom” was still new. I decided to see if this new line, trading on the recognizable name, was worthy of consideration by budget shoppers. The brand has been revived for a new line of laptops and tablets, sold exclusively in Walmart. When a representative reached out to us to offer a new line of Gateway computers to review, I was intrigued.
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