It’s certainly cheap, but pick up Walmart’s Onn tablet and you’ll soon see why. Walmart sells everything and it focuses on offering low, low prices. That even extends to electronics, where its in-house Onn brand includes TVs, headphones, computer apple chips walmart, and now tablets.
The Walmart Onn Android tablet comes in two sizes: There’s a 10. 64, both containing the same hardware, though the 10. 1-inch version has a slightly different external design. I’m reviewing the 8-inch tablet here.
These new tablets won’t trouble Apple, but they do bring some competition to the budget end of the market, which Amazon Fire tablets have been comfortably dominating for years. Solid, budget design When you open the box and slide out the plastic tray, you’re greeted by a chunky tablet with a plastic body. The plastic is navy blue and it has a cross-hatched texture on the back that helps with grip and shrugs off finger smudges. There’s an Onn logo at the bottom right, a speaker at the bottom left, and a 2-megapixel camera at the top left.
Flipping it over, there’s an 8-inch screen with thick bezels around it and a 0. 3-megapixel front-facing camera at the top. The right spine has a power button and volume buttons above. There’s nothing on the left side. The bottom edge houses the MicroUSB port for charging. 5mm headphone port and an open MicroSD card slot. You get what you pay for.
It looks and feels cheap, but it’s comfortable to hold and features gentle curves on the back, along with 2. 5D glass, so there are no sharp edges. It’s a good size for reading in portrait or for watching movies in landscape. The 8-inch IPS LCD display is basic and sports a resolution of 1,280 x 800 pixels. The glass is quite reflective, and with limited brightness the Walmart Onn’s screen is scarcely legible outdoors in direct sunlight or under bright lighting.