I suspect that the leaked $799 price tag will be what the price will be for an unsubsidized pad when the pre-orders go live, with the subsidized price a considerable amount lower.
The tidbit I'm more interested in was the part that required one month of Verizon 3g service before being able to use it wifi only. Again, could just be part of the placeholder page, but extracting another $20 from consumers just to buy an unsubsidized pad is... a pretty shocking practice, if that does actually turn out to be the case.
See post 4.
Why have a “place holder” that damages your product? Every major tech source has reported this already.
I am not too sure you are right... 7" tablets have unsubsidized prices of around $700... this is a ~10" tablet with faster and better processor (read more expensive), more than 110% more screen acreage than the 7" tablets (read even more expensive).
Some reporters from another news site who went to the BestBuy page before it was pulled clicked on the links and found themselves on the BestBuy pre-order page... pricing there was ALSO $1,199. That is not a placeholder pricing if that is true.
I have read about the one month 3g requirement to enable WiFi use as well. That’s a major scam IMHO. Sounds like a Verizon thing to me, and I wouldn’t put it past them.