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HTC Flyer $299 USD. Bargain after The Launch of Kindle Fire Start Today

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HTC Flyer $299 USD. Bargain after The Launch of Kindle Fire Start Today
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Psiwat2 on 01/10/2011 - 09:44 pr.bby.com (823 clicks)
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This is a huge price dump from fair new HTC tablet. Normally, it cost 499 USD, but after the launch of new Kindle, Amazon Tablet, it decrease to 299 USD at Bestbuy.

For Australians, Bestbuy do not ship its goods outside US border, so we have to use a service from US mail forwarder, like http://www.shipito.com. The service fee probably cost 40 USD plus difference from exchange rate. Finally, the total price would be approximately at 370AUD. If you don't compare it with crazy bargain of HP touchpad, this is a pretty good deal ^^.

According to the source, the new price will be started at 1st Oct, EDT time which is around 14 hours after Melbourne timezone. Read it for more information.

I wish this will be a good news for you guys who is looking for new tablet.

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  • georgedeka on 01/10/2011 - 09:48

    270AUD, where did you get that from? did you mean 370?
    I might just wait for a fire anyway

    • medium_tight on 01/10/2011 - 10:26

      7 inch Kindle Fire would be US$ 199

    • siwat2 on 01/10/2011 - 21:03

      Sorry it shd be 370$ as u say. fix it already

  • troyww on 01/10/2011 - 09:51

    Shame it's only a 7" .

    • medium_tight on 01/10/2011 - 10:31
      +11

      7 inch is cd form factor. You can hold it with one hand and do other things with the other …. hand (awkward moment)

      • [Deactivated] on 01/10/2011 - 10:40
        -2

        Medium_tight pls refrain from sharing the details of your sex life eye roll There could be some kids reading this ;)

        • ozAzn on 01/10/2011 - 12:13
          +3

          he never said what you meant. He could have meant reading a recipe while cooking or calculating a good deal he saw on OzBargain!

          but i get what you meant (wink wink)

        • FOX on 01/10/2011 - 15:09
          +1

          kids are really adults when they log onto OzB

      • Twodogs on 01/10/2011 - 10:50

        Rofl

      • Roja on 01/10/2011 - 11:12
        +3

        Oh. So thats what you're meant to use a tablet for..

      • thetrash on 01/10/2011 - 13:20

        so convenient in the toilet …

        (one hand to monitor ozbargain and other to brush teeth) :P

  • dealhunt on 01/10/2011 - 10:08

    Advertising….

  • Horizon on 01/10/2011 - 10:39

    Let the "who's-for-the-chop-next" games begin!

    In the price-cutting bloodbath triggered by the HP Touchpad fiasco & the new Kindle announcement, I expect we will be hearing many similar tales of massive discounts as manufacturers fall over themselves to get rid of unpopular devices & warehouses full of unsaleable stock.

    Among others, I'd put a lot of money on RIM's Blackberry Playbook (basis of the Kindle Fire) as being an imminent victim.

    Along with at least a dozen other unloved, under-featured & over-priced tablets & phones that will quietly disappear, or go out in a blaze of heavily discounted 'glory' between now & the new year.

    • easternculture on 01/10/2011 - 11:46
      +1

      +1 for the playbook
      Its a massive fail and as far as im aware, theres over 500,000 units sitting in their factories
      SO the next $99 bargain will be the playb00k :D

    • bargaino on 01/10/2011 - 13:58

      I don't think you can compare it to the HP fiasco.
      $299 is a permanent sustainable price. Why should a tablet cost any more than a netbook or a comparable smartphone?
      The 7" displays are quite cheap to make now.

      The marketing people probably wanted to start selling at a high price for prestige sake.
      Apple have shown how much people were willing to pay.

  • annarchon on 01/10/2011 - 10:50
    +1
    • As far as I know Bestbuy doesn't like shipforwarders.

    http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Help-Topics/International-Orders…

    • Best Buy pretty much have presence is all states, so sales taxes will apply as will. So it ain't 299, more like 320 or so.
    • Maestrok on 01/10/2011 - 18:32

      Not if you're in Portland, Oregon…or anywhere in Oregon?….Tax Free!! If only someone set up a forwarding service there!

      • bargaino on 01/10/2011 - 19:16

        Yeah? Well I got charged tax in Oregon. Apparently the yanks have federal, state, and city taxes.
        There are other sales-tax free states too. Alaska and Montana?

        • annarchon on 02/10/2011 - 09:00

          and they vary from county to county as well.

          Miami Dade is 7% where as if you cross the invisible line into Broward its 6.5%. And if you didnt know the Miami and Fort Laundersadle seamlessly blend into one another.

  • FrederickHandel on 01/10/2011 - 10:50

    IMO you might as well use your phone instead if its only 7", it should be worth the 'size upgrade' over your phone, and somewhere between 9-11" seems about right for a tablet.

    • sane on 01/10/2011 - 12:58
      +1

      Have to disagree.

      Once you get up towards 10" it gets too big and cumbersome - more a netbook where you lost the keyboard. You have to put it on something to use it really. 7" is more practical, usefully bigger than a phone, but still something you can stick in a (big) pocket and operate with two hands and thumbs.

      How long will the iPad Nano take to arrive I wonder?

  • pao2x on 01/10/2011 - 11:00

    7" is perfect portability for me, It's just like popping out an e-reader. I'm looking to upgrade from my galaxy tab soon and at this price it's hard to resist. If only it was available without a forwarder.

    • turbodude on 01/10/2011 - 12:19

      What are you going to gain from the upgrade from your galaxy tab (i am using one to write this). Have you upgraded to Gingerbread yet because mine is like a new device after upgrade.

      • pao2x on 01/10/2011 - 15:12

        Processor upgrade + more reliable updates . I feel like the tab is sluggish at times . Yes its on gingerbread.

  • netsurfer on 01/10/2011 - 12:43
    +3

    This thing for $299? I really don't understand why HTC released this tablet. It was launched one year late and has a single core CPU. So, HTC pretty much sticked with Gingerbread on this one (not suprised). HTC put a fair bit of phone memory, but stuffed up on the CPU/GPU selection.

    The reason why nobody mentions HTC when you talk about tablets in general, is they are too far behind currently. Kindle Fire - dual core CPU is only $199. This HTC tablet is 1 generation behind and wants people to pay $299 for one. This is being posted as a bargain? Seriously?

    By the way, Kindle Fire is late (but it is very well priced). Quad core Android tablets are scheduled to come out later this year (let's hope they arrive on time). Tablet market is about to get more interesting I reckon.

    • bargaino on 01/10/2011 - 13:58

      Whats with the core count obsession?
      The iPad one and others with one core plus GPU are plenty fast enough for web and angry birds.
      Battery life is usually more of an issue than CPU speed.

      • netsurfer on 01/10/2011 - 15:38
        +2

        It is a good measure of speed. If not, how come all the proper current gen. of tablets are all dual cores (with BETTER GPU). iPad 1 - good you brought it up. Apple stopped selling them earlier this year - so Apple don't want their new customers to use a CPU that's one generation behind. Why makes HTC so special that they can sell a prev. gen of tablet as the current gen. of tablet? HTC should be leading the Android (or at least I see them as one of the leaders)… it is certainly disappointing that they released this tablet so late. No wonder HTC's CEO got caught buying iPad 2s.

        Telstra pretty much cleared out their Android single core tablet offerings few months ago.

        • bargaino on 01/10/2011 - 16:12

          I hear what you are saying. But to call one model step, and one year a "generation", is just silly. Are you in marketing perhaps? Or just read too many press releases?
          Going from GSM to UTMS was a generational change. Or from CRT to LCD/plasma. As for tablets, an earlier generation might be the Newton, or palm pilot.

        • netsurfer on 01/10/2011 - 20:54

          Do you know about technology? Do you know how much the technology advances each year? You want to talk about GSM and UTMS? Do you know GSM is TDMA and UTMS is CDMA (W-CDMA to be exact)? UTMS is basically the GSM camp saying.. yes, CDMA is a better technology over TDMA. At least the TDMA people accepted the fact CDMA is a better technology and moved on.

          You need to wake up. As I pointed out, even Apple is not letting their new customers using a technology that's 1 year behind. Why do you think Apple stop selling iPad 1? Why do you think all the other vendors are busy pushing dual core? Why do you think even Amazon, knowing full well they need to come up with a tablet that's dirt cheap would AT LEAST put in a dual core into their tablet? HTC does not even make CPUs. Why didn't they just pick a dual core CPU? It is not like they had a truck load of single core CPUs. HTC tablet was released after iPad 2.

          Quad Core mobile CPUs are coming.. you can "enjoy" your HTC single core tablet if you like. I do hope HTC learned for the mistake and move straight to quad core for their next tablet.

  • topaz420 on 01/10/2011 - 13:02

    DARN!

    It doesn't make voice calls.

    That's the only thing keeping me from getting this to replace my $99 ZTE V9

    7" is the largest size tab that will fit in my pocket. Perfect form factor for me!

  • aboutconfig on 01/10/2011 - 13:48

    the new Amazon one is $199, and you still want to charge $299? Oh poor HTC

    • bargaino on 01/10/2011 - 14:00

      The Kindle Fire looks good at first, but gets worse the more you see.
      It is locked down, and missing all sorts of things that you expect to be standard in an Android tablet. Including the Android Market!
      The Flyer at $299 is a much better deal.

      • NVidia Sucks on 01/10/2011 - 15:26

        How do you know all this? which IT company's board director are you in? May i have your name card?

      • annarchon on 01/10/2011 - 15:32

        Well, the fire has amazon market which has all the major apps. Also the fire is as locked down as other skinned and branded tablet. They run a forked froyo but I am sure someone will get honeycomb onto it soon enough.

        • NVidia Sucks on 01/10/2011 - 17:11

          dun think so, google is doing classification on andriod system, dun think a $200 device can install honeycomb

        • annarchon on 02/10/2011 - 09:01

          my mistake honeycomb is essentially closed sourced, better get icecream instead then.

      • netsurfer on 01/10/2011 - 15:43
        +1

        Nook color was locked down. Didn't take long for people to come up with really cool stuff about it.

        Amazon Appstore is not an issue anyway. Amazon Appstore is quite good. If fact, if you have multiple Android devices, you will find re-installing apps using Amazon Appstore much better.

        Like I mentioned before, HTC's CEO was caught buying a competitor's tablets. At first, I couldn't figure out why. As soon as they released HTC Flyer, it became clear to me (HTC Flyer is pretty much 1 year behind the competition). Amazon Kindle Fire is at least still current gen in terms of hardware - and cheaper.

  • siwat2 on 01/10/2011 - 21:10

    The main point that make me like this one because it work with both stylus and fingers. Have a look at the review, you will see how much it would comfortable for take note and finger control. ^^

    FYI*.. So far, Bestbuy haven't updated the price. TT

    • netsurfer on 01/10/2011 - 21:27

      You can get stylus for other capacitive touch screen devices.

      This tablet runs Gingerbread, not Honeycomb (probably because it did not meet min. requirements to run Honeycomb). Hardware is roughly the same as iPad 1/Samsung Galaxy Tab (Gen 1). The main issue here is actually the price. Amazon Fire's RRP is going to be $199 - AND Amazon is making a slim profit for that price. So, if you paid $299 for the HTC tablet, I guess you will be helping HTC. It is up to you. HTC do need to clear them fast.

    • annarchon on 02/10/2011 - 09:02

      The stylus is sold seperatelu.

  • sonicentropy on 01/10/2011 - 21:24

    Flyer is not a bargain at this price, dated tech, no warranty. The yum cha 7"-8" tablets are catching up fast, you can score a 8" A9 dual core, 4000Mah battery with capacitive multitouch for around $200 us

  • Lego Spaceman on 02/10/2011 - 10:00

    Having gotten the 7" Galaxy, I'm not quite tempted at this price. However, the Flyer is a very appealing machine: it looks how the iPad should look; it's reviewers kept remarking on it's speed (1.5ghz, 1gb RAM) advantage over all other tabs. For a 7" one is less likely to be using many simultaneous functions, so a fast single core is almost always better (can be less fluid at times, though.)

    The Flyer has unique software for recording and scribing that make it useful as a standalone device. If this had been priced properly to begin with, it could have been a contender.

  • [Deactivated] on 02/10/2011 - 18:43

    I am sure Amazon is cutting corners on memory , cameras mic etc.. The RIM playbook 7" is also down to 299 for 16 gig version on bestbuy. and with Android app support coming soon its a good deal compare to HTC. same specs compare to FIRE + cameras and 16 gig of memory, HDMI, built in Mic, i am not sure of expandable memory though.

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