Pass. I really wish this whole subsidy thing for anything other then phones would go away. It's entirely misleading and ends up costing way more in the end.
And any "pad" that is matching apple's pricing better check themselves at the door and seriously consider if the price is justified.
When a netbook is $250, I think consumers, aside from apple products, won't be pulling the trigger nearly as fast for these things.
The first netbook that has a flip screen so that it appears as a tablet with touchscreen and is still in the under $400 category is more* likely to take home the bacon.
*I say more, because untill these tablets start rolling out, there really is no basis for deciding if they will take off, or be just like the tablet laptops that have been around for years.
Agree. If anyone wants to compete with iPad at this point, unless it is a full fledged windows OS table, it needs to have a similar size&quality screen as the iPad, and cost no more than 350-400, WITHOUT SUBSIDIES.
@Showbiz Viliv s10 if it can come down in price will sweep the market. Very thin, light and almost a real tablet PC with 2ghz. Watch Viliv they are on the edge to real computing power without a $2000 price tag. Personally I would like to see a Lenovo x201 tablet with a dedicated graphics card I would pay for that.
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$480+ AFTER subsidies?
Pass. I really wish this whole subsidy thing for anything other then phones would go away. It's entirely misleading and ends up costing way more in the end.
And any "pad" that is matching apple's pricing better check themselves at the door and seriously consider if the price is justified.
When a netbook is $250, I think consumers, aside from apple products, won't be pulling the trigger nearly as fast for these things.
The first netbook that has a flip screen so that it appears as a tablet with touchscreen and is still in the under $400 category is more* likely to take home the bacon.
*I say more, because untill these tablets start rolling out, there really is no basis for deciding if they will take off, or be just like the tablet laptops that have been around for years.
@Showbiz
Agree. If anyone wants to compete with iPad at this point, unless it is a full fledged windows OS table, it needs to have a similar size&quality screen as the iPad, and cost no more than 350-400, WITHOUT SUBSIDIES.
@tosvus
Agreed, who the hell wants yet ANOTHER contract lock in.
@Showbiz
Viliv s10 if it can come down in price will sweep the market. Very thin, light and almost a real tablet PC with 2ghz. Watch Viliv they are on the edge to real computing power without a $2000 price tag. Personally I would like to see a Lenovo x201 tablet with a dedicated graphics card I would pay for that.