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To: Swordmaker

Not me. I’ve been waiting for the Android operating system to improve and for the price to drop substantially. Android 3 is a good platform for a pad and I figure this Xmas the price of an android pad will probably be in the vicinity of $150 or less. I see some of the android 2 pads going for under $100 but those are really not much more than glorified kindles.


8 posted on 08/17/2011 5:16:13 PM PDT by Graneros ("It is no exaggeration to say that the undecided could go one way or another.")
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To: Graneros
Android 3 is a good platform for a pad and I figure this Xmas the price of an android pad will probably be in the vicinity of $150 or less.

I'd be surprised if they come down that far that fast. At least for one worth having, which I define as Honeycomb (Android 3.0), a capacitive touch screen, good build quality and a sufficiently fast processor. There are plenty of tablets in the $150 price range that have none of the above, and they're pretty much universally panned as more frustration than they're worth.

None of the Android tablets out thus far have caught fire, so no one's getting any economies of scale to bring the price down. Apple is also sucking up most of the production capacity for capacitive touch screens and flash memory, so the price on those isn't going to drop quickly.

31 posted on 08/18/2011 9:32:55 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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