KOBO ARC 10 ANDROID POWERED TABLET APPEARS TO BE IN THE WORKS WITH TEGRA 4 PROCESSOR

KOBO ARC 10

Barnes and Noble might have pulled the plug on Android-powered tablets, but its competitors at Kobo appear ready to double down. There appears to be a high-resolution Kobo Arc 10 in the works, and it may feature Nvidia’s new Tegra 4 processor.
Based on data that popped up on a pair of benchmark sites, the Arc 10HD will match the Nexus 10 with a 10-inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel display. The Tegra 4 chip appears to be clocked at 1.8GHz, just like the one in Toshiba’s Excite Pro tablets, which just went on sale.

The benchmark results also peg the Arc 10HD as running Android 4.2.2, which would no doubt sit beneath Kobo’s own custom UI. And since the 7-inch Kobo Arc ships with access to Google Play, it seems like a safe bet that its 10-inch counterpart would, too.

Everything else about the Arc 10HD remains a mystery for now. The sites that captured this premature data weren’t fortunate enough to lock down how much RAM or internal storage the ARC 10HD includes.

At this point, however, there’s a good possibility that Kobo is merely testing a larger Arc tablet. With specs that are so similar to the new Toshiba Excite Pro’s, Kobo may simply be tinkering with one — or with an Nvidia reference design — to see what a 10-inch version of its tablet might feel like.

Kobo still isn’t a household name when it comes to tablets, however, and right now it’s much easier to sell smaller tablets with proportionally small price tags. Kobo likes to price its products competitively, but it’s difficult to imagine the Arc 10HD selling for less than the $399 Nexus 10. Kobo will think long and hard before kicking off the mass production of something twice as expensive as the Arc.