Yikes: The Galaxy Tab is Going to be Expensive

[MrSiko]

Hmm, this might possibly be the most blatant, and semi-smart, pro-Apple advertising I have seen peddled here in some time... And most probably complete BS. Shame on you Jane. We expect much better.

When exactly did THG sell out to Apple?

 

[Ehsan w]

I'd get one for $300.-

 

[elbert]

It looks great but the price, of what is sure to be Netbook parts, is far to high.

 

[Guest]

Samsung at any price is too high! They still haven't fixed the GPS issues with regular Galaxy S phone, what will be different with this. Maybe Samsung should fix what is out and stop moving forward at the expense of it's current screwed over customers.....

 

[tayb]

That price? Laughable. Signing a contract? No thanks.

Price this around the iPad (or cheaper preferably because, you know, Apple overprices everything right? Right?) and I'm a buyer.

 

[richpmd]

Unless it's considerably cheaper than the iPad it won't compete.

 

[COLGeek]

Pass, still an expensive toy with limited actual utility, like the other products it emulates. You can have mine.

 

[someguynamedmatt]

Marketing scheme, anyone?

Think of all the news sites/reports talking about the Galexy Tab right now...

 

[kerbe360]

If the price is higher than the iPad, then Samsung has already failed. /*Que in iPad commercial*/

 

[Khimera2000]

we can only hope to see... I think that it would be chaper seeing as samsung does not have to contract out for a chunk of its parts, unlike apple who has to licence out all its hardware, or close to it.

 

[cookoy]

You want to excel in something. But in prices?
Yikes and Ouch, in Euro or Dollar.

 

[thillntn]

$399 and it is on, but only if it can be rooted!

 

[screechy]

Well I heard from a very reliable source that they were free.
/sarcasm.
I think this price is absurd and surely samsung isn't that dumb

 

[johmm]

7" it better be half the price of the ipad,
7" just won't do, if can go by the remarks the most here have been making on the ipad. Then they won't a full laptoppie inside that thing it has do everything en play everything, but on a 7" screen?

what i like to see is even a bit bigger then the ipad, make it plain A4 szte with the borders, it fits in every bag, the keybord wil be just nip bigger, battery can grow with the size.

7" is a no go for me, but what do you guys an girls think of it?

 

[techguy378]

It's my understanding that the Tab can make phone calls over 3G (using a hands free device of course). If this is true then these prices are perfectly reasonable. Besides, on the data side there's nothing the iPad can do better than the Tab. Android also proves that you don't need Apple's tight control to have a high quality app. It's been proven time and time again that Android apps are far less buggy than apps for the iPhone or iPad.

 

[johmm]

techguy...
can you explain how you gonna use it as a phone.
so you go to the pub with friends and you have a purse with the tab in with you?
you go see a football game en the purse is still with you?
if you gonna say no than i have my regural phone with me, i don't see why it easy that you can use it as a phone.

if you can give a other solution/use of the phone cabelity i like to hear about it.
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[angelraiter]

[citation][nom]g-thor[/nom]At that price, this product will die. It isn't as portable as a smartphone, it isn't as functional as a netbook or notebook and can't offer what they do.[/citation]
This ^

I didn't get an iPad cause I thought it was just one more way to burn money, I have a desktop, I have a laptop and I have a smart phone, each of those have their purpose and they do it well, these things attempt to do what those 3 devices do and fails. This new tablet will not be anything revolutionary, and is seriously not gonna be worth a grand. I mean, I think the iPad is pricey, this thing feels like they want you to know you're being ripped off.

 

[x3style]

Review of the thing with way more detail on GSMARENA.

http/www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_tab-review-508.php

 

[Guest]

It won't be 890 dollars if it's 699 euros.
European retailers always just convert american prices 1/1 to euros and get away with it.

If you pay 200 dollars for a phone we pay 200 euros for it...

If it ends up costing 890 dollars then we'll end up paying 890 euros.
Oh wait then you'll pay over 1000 dollars! oh wait then we'll pay over 1000 euros ! oh wait then... see where I'm going with this?

 

[ern88]

Is this thing made out of gold pressed latinum or what. I'll wait for other competitors release.