Vizio Tablet tiptoes into retail, starting at Costco

We all know it has been a protracted wait since CES , but after you have pawed at by both Blake Griffin and yours truly , the Vizio Tablet is beginning to appear in stores right about on schedule . Frequent Engadget commenter DaHarder took a step far from the Disqus box and snagged this tablet at a native Costco store for $329 ($20 off the regular price), an achievement also unlocked by the folk at Mobileslate. In line with their reports you will have to invite around to determine if the VTAB1008 is basically in stock but it surely can be lurking together with its $40 Accessories Kit, while it’s already showing in stock at the Vizio online store. Impressions to this point suggest a “budget” tablet experience above that of the flood of craptablets with decent hardware and battery life, but a software experience behind the head of the road slates due to custom UI, small internal storage and RAM and slower single core Marvell CPU. Our review is yet to return, but when there’s around three bills burning a hole to your pocket and you’ve got just got to have an Android tablet with integrated IR blaster, we aren’t seeing too many other options available.

[Thanks, DaHarder]

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