Amazon working on $50 Android tablet, possible specs leaked

Online retailer Amazon.com is reportedly working on a $50 tablet, which is half the price of the company's most affordable Fire tablet, Fire HD 6 priced at $99. Possible specs of the $50 tablet has surfaced online via GFXBench website.

As per GFXBench data, Amazon's cheapest tablet could have 6 or 7 inch display and has a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels, which is downgrade from Fire HD 6. Inside there is a 1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek MT8127 ARM cortex-A7 processor with Mali 450 GPU and 1GB RAM. On-board storage is 8GB and for there is 2-megapixel rear and 0.3-megapixel VGA front facing cameras. The tablet runs Android 5.1 Lollipop, which means it will likely ship with Amazon's Fire OS 5.

By comparison, the $99, Fire HD 6 comes with 6-inch display with 1280 x 800 pixels resolution, quad-core MediaTek MT8135 processor with PowerVR G6200 graphics and 1GB RAM. Comes in two storage options- 8GB or 16GB and sports 2-megapixel rear and 0.2-megapixel front camera.

With the $50 price tag, Amazon is trying to offer a cheap tablet, so you could buy this tablet for your kids and not think twice. Amazon plans to release the tablet in time for the holiday season.

In related, just few days back Amazon discontinued the sales of the company's first smartphone, the Fire Phone that was launched in June last year for $649. The online retail giant was struggling to sell the phone, ever since launch and also failed to impress the critics.