[geeks] tablets?

[gsm at mendelson.com]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 01:11:28PM +0200, Jochen Kunz wrote:
>> 5. Get a 7 inch Galaxy tab. Same price as an iPad. I know nothing about it.
>Hmmm. The 7" Galaxy tab is available for 321,00 ? in Gernamy. Thats less
>then half of the price of an iPad(2). I played with a 7" Galaxy tab and
>an iPad for a few minutes. I would put them on par.

321 Euro is 1565 NIS. A new 16G iPad is 1900 NIS, 1800 if you have a discount
card. The Galaxy tab is 1800 without any discounts available. That's 50 Euro
more, not a big difference.

The equivalent iPad 2 is 449 Euro. Or it will be when they are available.
This price is fixed by the exclusive importer, no one can sell them cheaper.
Other dealers can offer incentives, such as a free case or screen protector
or not. They may do it on the iPad, but not the iPad2 for a while.

There are some gray market importers, they sell for 10% less. The problem is
until the offical importer sells them they have only a store warranty.



>
>> Any other options or suggestions?
>There is a metric butload of (cheap, chinese) iPad clones out there that
>run Android. Google for "epad", "aPad", "BRESSER MID-7", "ARCHOS 101",
>"HANNSpad", "ICONIA TAB A", ... Though, you get what you pay for. The
>cheap chinese clones have resistive touch screens, slow CPUs, ...
>But they may do the job, depending on what you need / want.

Thanks. I'll look.

Geoff.

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