Orange To Launch Cheap Android Tablets For All?

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By most accounts, we’ll see a ton of Android tablets come out in Q4 of this year and Q1 of next year. Great news for Europeans who are looking for some Android tablets, as a French publication is reporting that French-based carrier Orange is planning to offer three different Android tablets, branded with the Orange name, that will be sold subsizied with a 3G service plan.

The tablets are reportedly being made by a “famous Asian manufacturer”, which everybody suspects is Foxconn but it could be Samsung, LG or HTC as well. They’ll be running Android and they’re being promised “in time for Christmas”.

The reported prices don’t sound too bad to us. €250 ($319) without a contract, or €100 ($128) with a two-year service contract. As mentioned, they’ll be branded with the Orange name and also since there are allegedly three different tablets coming, we hope that means that they might be coming in different sizes (5-inches, 7-inches and 10-inches?) which sounds good to us.

As Gizmodo points out, netbooks were often sold by carriers with an attached 3G plan and that appeared to work out well for the carriers, the netbook makers and the customers. If a similar eco-system started up for tablets, well, that doesn’t seem like a bad thing.