{"id":192,"date":"2014-01-06T11:44:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T11:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrappz.com\/blog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2025-02-24T21:00:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T21:00:39","slug":"tesco-to-launch-hudl-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrappz.com\/blog\/tesco-to-launch-hudl-tablet\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesco to launch Hudl tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"news_image\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrappz.com\/blog\/wrappz-blog-images\/2014\/10\/7012349.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatLeft\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 0 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrappz.com\/blog\/wrappz-blog-images\/2014\/10\/7012349.jpg\" alt=\"7012349\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Supermarket retailer Tesco is planning to branch out into consumer technology by launching its own media tablets, it has been reported.<\/p>\n<p>Sources with knowledge on the matter told the Sunday Times the organisation is planning to introduce an iPad-style slate in time for Christmas, although very little further information is known at this time.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While this has been neither confirmed or denied by the company, insiders have claimed the tablets will be pre-loaded with films, music and books &#8211; along with apps for the Tesco digital grocery and banking arms.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, consumers who purchase the product will also be given access to Blinkbox &#8211; the organisation&#8217;s web-based film and music service.<\/p>\n<p>Sources claimed that Tesco is looking to come up with a high quality device that is similar to the Kindle Fire, but it is likely the retailer will aim to make the product as low-cost as possible in order to make it attractive to customers who are on a budget.<\/p>\n<p>Rumours also suggest the company will opt to run its latest innovation using Google&#8217;s Android operating system.<\/p>\n<p>The move is said to be in response to the damaging effect Apple and Amazon&#8217;s tablet offerings have had on Tesco&#8217;s profitable DVD and book sales in recent years, thanks to the ongoing popularity of the companies&#8217; slates.<\/p>\n<p>Tesco will not be the first supermarket to release a tablet on to the market, with Asda being the first to do so two years ago. Although the brand&#8217;s Arnova 8 is no longer on sale, the Wal-Mart-owned brand does sell the Prestigio Dual Core Android Tablet.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation regarding the Tesco tablet coincides with the release of research findings from IHS, which claimed the popularity of tablets is continuing to soar &#8211; due to the fact that consumers are still looking to make the most of smaller products on the market.<\/p>\n<p>Remember to protect your tablet with a protective case, browse our selection online today!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supermarket retailer Tesco is planning to branch out into consumer technology by launching its own media tablets, it has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":86,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrappz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrappz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrappz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrappz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrappz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrappz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85288,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrappz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/85288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrappz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrappz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrappz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrappz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}