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    News - iPad 2 launch prompts Samsung rethink

    The fall-out from Apple’s latest unveiling continues.
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    Re: News - iPad 2 launch prompts Samsung rethink

    Lower prices =

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    Re: News - iPad 2 launch prompts Samsung rethink

    At least it might give the rest of the tablet makers a kick up the backside to rethink their efforts. Just need Android and a Windows OS properly deployed to give iOS some fight.

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    Re: News - iPad 2 launch prompts Samsung rethink

    Good news for consumers, if it does result in lower prices I might even consider getting one.

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    Re: News - iPad 2 launch prompts Samsung rethink

    DSGi has their Advent Vega (which I bought) available at £250.
    The only issues I can come up with about it are the screen (seems like a poor TN), the 4GB storage (microSD so upgradeable) and the lack of Android Marketplace (3G is necessary, supposedly, although there are options to allow it without).
    Does a 10.1" 1024x IPS-type screen, 64GB of storage and a 3G card really cost £200 ?

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    Re: News - iPad 2 launch prompts Samsung rethink

    Not far off, I suspect. 64GB SSD is about £80, IPS panels are typically at least £100 more than their TN equivalents. I accept that we're talking about smaller screens, but you can see where the money's going.

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    Re: News - iPad 2 launch prompts Samsung rethink

    SSD won't be as much as that as they don't need expensive controllers, but significant nonetheless.

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    Re: News - iPad 2 launch prompts Samsung rethink

    Having just taken the plunge and purchased a 16GB iPad (someone really should tell Apple that it is their prices that are stopping a lot of people from buying into them - they should keep a single core 16GB iPad available at £299~), I'd say Samsung have their work cut out for them. Apps are everything. There is no Nanostudio for Android, WebOS, or Windows Mobile. Much as I respect Android - and the Vega is still tempting, it'd make for a decent MIDI controller - the Apps available, as a whole, simply don't match up to iOS. For now.
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    Re: News - iPad 2 launch prompts Samsung rethink

    Meh.

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    Re: News - iPad 2 launch prompts Samsung rethink

    Most people's strongest reservations about the rival tablets was their price; why would anyone go for a less-proven product that cost more? If that was the case before the iPad 2 launch, it was only ever going to be even more so after.

    "The 10-inch (tablet) was to be priced higher than the 7-inch (tablet) but we will have to think that over," Lee added in his Yonhap interview. A quick look around reveals the Samsung Galaxy Tab going for £449 standalone at Tesco. We expect the cheapest iPad 2 to match, if not beat, this price, so the pressure is definitely on Samsung and the rest of the chasing pack to compete.
    Totally agree with that - sure, there's an argument that if you price something "competitively" then folks won't take it seriously. Heck, I even heard a salesdroid at CPW trying to sell an iPhone4 over an HTC Desire (I think it was) because the HTC was a budget piece of crap that would fall apart if you looked at it, whereas the iPhone was Rolls-Royce build quality - after all, it's expensive for a reason.

    On the other hand, even with the great strides that Honeycomb is making it's still "novel" and (currently) has less app support than iOS. In which case, personally speaking, I think Samsung and Motorola have goofed by pushing their kit at the same price as iPad. Far better to do the same as the netbooks - pitch it low initially and then inch the prices up when the devices are accepted.

    To me at least any tablet - which remember is a secondary device - that's over £400 is a failure. £200-300 is more like it, although I'll be the first to admit that this probably isn't achievable given the price of the components.

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