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Meh, SD card isn't much to me. 3G on the other hand would be sweet
And that is why it has neither. At $200, you can't include throwaway features that don't appeal to a majority of your target market. For myself, I don't know why I'd care that my tablet was a phone. I already have a phone; if I want to put the tablet on the internet I tether it to the phone.
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I thought they were selling for cost price. AU249 for 8Gb and AU299 for 16Gb.
Why are we Australians getting ripped off again. 200USD It's not because of shipping because that is added separately. Even if it was $50 is way too much.
Besides, by the time you pay for shipping and tax in New York, the $199 tablet is $232!
No 3G though? I guess when you're only willing to spend $200, it's not worth it?
Cell modem would easily add $100 to the price; not to mention having to pair it with a carrier (which Google doesn't seem willing to do just yet). They could do unlocked, but contract-free, tablet only SIMs aren't very common in the US yet. Plus, don't believe Asus has shipped many cell-equipped tablets yet. Am a bit surprised they didn't do some sort of "instant tethering" feature: tap your phone and tablet, they pi…
If you are amongst those who miss 3G in $device then check them out now, you might be in for a pleasant surprise.
(personally I have a huawei 585 and can recommend it wholeheartedly, it's even smaller than the MiFis!)
The 16 GB model looks sold out in Canada (I only get a subscribe for notifications option), is it the same in the US?
Would also be interested in knowing this. Currently have the 8GB ordered instead.
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I don't see how that works logically. A 7" tablet is just about exactly as much bigger than a 4" phone as a 10" tablet is bigger than a 7" tablet. Why is one quantum more important than the other? I could just as well say "Double the size makes it really hard to argue that the iPad is notably better than a 7" tablet." with exactly the same justification. I think it's very much taste-dependent. I've used an iPad and b…
>Why is one quantum more important than the other? I've owned both. Long story short, things like comics, magazines, non-mobile web, etc are terrible on a 7". Consuming this media often involves lots of tapping and zooming. Its annoying. Two people can sit together and watch a TV show or movie comfortable with a 10" tablet. With a 7" its almost like crowding around someone's phone. Oh, and the 10" opens up this world…
What I think would be a killer feature is having a print driver on your desktop that sends formatted PDF printouts directly to your tablet device, sized for the screen. Then you would have a true replacement for your printer for many use cases (such as printing off some quick notes for a meeting, etc).
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Why are we Australians getting ripped off again. 200USD It's not because of shipping because that is added separately. Even if it was $50 is way too much.
I wonder if the price includes GST (a 10% sales tax)? Still, that's only an additional $20.
I was just looking at reviews of this tablet. I really want one. It seems like it's got some pretty decent specs for $199
I actually disagree with this first paragraph, I think Sony was right. The "race to the bottom" definitely did impact the industry, and for quite some time, no manufacturer even offered a laptop with decent build quality, except for Apple of course. People thought "why should I pay $1,000+ for this laptop when I can get a much cheaper laptop that will do everything I need?" And then the Macbook Air and the iPad come along and all of a sudden, people have no problem paying more for a quality product. If it wasn't for Apple, the OEMs would continue to release shitty machines until they all went bankrupt from negative profit margins.
I don't think the tablet market is experiencing the same race to the bottom because people are not buying these shitty tablets (which the Nexus 7 isn't). Everybody is still buying iPads and will continue to do so until a tablet that can actually compete with the iPad is released. (I have only seen two that even come close, the Galaxy and the Transformer, and still...) I think Apple has proven that consumers are willing to pay more if the product is good. And this is all coming from someone that does not own a single Apple product.
is 7" really big enough for a tablet for most people? That's only slightly larger than my phone :/