Read more.The fall-out from Apple’s latest unveiling continues.
Read more.The fall-out from Apple’s latest unveiling continues.
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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.
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 ?
SSD won't be as much as that as they don't need expensive controllers, but significant nonetheless.
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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Meh.
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.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.
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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