Miss out on the $99 TouchPad? The New York Post suggests that Amazon might just have the tablet for you in the offing.
Citing anonymous sources, the Post says that Amazon’s forthcoming Android-powered tablet “will sell for hundreds less than the entry-point $499 iPad”. It’s not clear just how many hundreds less—it might be a $299 tablet or a $199 tablet; a $99 new tablet sounds doubtful just yet given how much of a loss HP is taking on fire-saling its TouchPads. Amazon hasn’t even gotten its Kindle down to that price point yet, let alone a tablet with a pricier LCD screen.
Still, this should please the people who said they would be more likely to buy an Amazon tablet for less than $250.
(Found via Gizmodo.)
The latest 16 MB Toshiba 10″ tablet arrived in Canada this week at $429. If Amazon is really set to compete in the tablet space, delivering an Amazon branded tablet that displays ebooks, mp3s, movies and tv shows … in other words a full media tablet especially supporting the Amazon eco-system … it’s hard to imagine a price point over $399. Probably $349 is cheap enough to create a lot of buzz. Surely one challenge is what to do with the Kindle DX at $389.