Not exact matches
The $ 200
price tag for a 32 GB version on an AT&T contract — the same
price range as the iPhone 5S or Samsung GS5 — was a surprise to those who thought that the Kindle and Kindle Fire
tablets showed Amazon as a
low -
end disruptor, selling hardware at cost and profiting on the content.
Unlike Apple, which is catering to the high -
end with professional - grade hardware like the new iPad Pro and its accompanying Pencil, Amazon
tablets»
lower price points make them practically impulse buys that you can throw into your cart while shopping on its site for something else.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S3, the company's latest high -
end tablet, has dropped $ 100 to its
lowest price ever, just $ 499.
RAINIEThe marketplace changed towards the
end of the year with the Kindle Fire and with the Nook
tablet computer coming on the market and being at much
lower price points than the iPad and earlier
tablets.
I have thought about upgrading to one of the
low -
end reading
tablets from B&N or Amazon but not convinced it is worth the
price ($ 50 - $ 100) to get something that still seems obsolete already compared to just buying a
tablet and installing the reading apps that I want.
It's
priced at the higher
end of the scale for a
low -
end budget
tablet, but at least it doesn't feel or look like a cheap plastic toy and you know you're getting a better quality product with software that's more developed than what's on the generic gear.
At a
price that
low, the Kindle Fire would be able to more easily compete at the tail
end of the Android - based
tablet market — an area which is today dominated by
low - cost
tablets out of China, often sold at the sub - $ 100
price point.
Given the large number of units sold — more than 15 million to date, according to Apple — the market leader from California is the only
tablet maker able to obtain high
end materials at
low prices from component suppliers, thanks to its high volume of sales.
Manufactured by Asus, the
tablet features high -
end specs with a presumably
low -
end price with a super slim profile and design.
Apple's
tablet lineup got a lot more aggressive at the tail
end of March with the release of a $ 329 iPad — one of the
lowest prices Apple has put on a
tablet to date.
The Germany - based company Linshof says it will release a line of high -
end Android 5.0 Lollipop smartphones and
tablets for very
low prices starting sometime in the first quarter of 2015.
Toshiba's Excite 7 ($ 169.99 direct) tries to compete with other
low -
end Android
tablets like the Dell Venue 7 and Hisense Sero 7 Pro, but doesn't deliver in terms of performance for the
price.
This anticipated
tablet features a quad - core Qualcomm APQ 8016 processor with a clock speed of 1.2 GHz and 1.5 GB of RAM, meaning that the Galaxy Tab A will not be in any way the high -
end device you might be expecting from a 2015 release, but with this, the
price will be significantly
lower.
While some
tablet makers have suggested that Windows RT devices could be
priced as
low as $ 300, a leaked slide from ZDNet shows that Asus isn't aiming to compete at that
end of the market.
The education focused 9.7 - inch iPad (2018), Apple's
lowest -
end tablet, is
priced at $ 399.
But the main course is obviously the
tablet — a stock Google experience with a
price point clearly meant to put a hurt on Amazon's Kindle Fire, and sway potential buyers of Apple's
lower -
end iPad 2.
This snappy little
tablet runs on the
lower end of
price points in the field, but don't let that fool you — it still packs punch.
With Android
tablets ranging from
low end to high
end with various
price points and feature sets, figuring out which
tablet is right for you...
Amazon impressed with its new Kindle Fire HD
tablets this week, offering what it calls «high
end» devices at
low prices.
We assumed it was for Android
tablets but no, Intel are targeting their
low -
end Baytrail solution for Windows
tablets at that
price point.
One reason that
prices will be so
low is that by 2015,
tablet PCs will compete more directly with high -
end eReaders — they'll have reflective displays capable of color at very
low power consumption rates.
The device is on the
low end of
tablet specs these days — which has helped the company beat down the
price to just under $ 200.
In Reitzes» assessment,
lower -
priced notebooks become the biggest victims of the
tablet category's surge: «We believe it is prudent to use 30 - 40 [percent] cannibalization rate of the
low -
end notebook market, which we believe was a similar rate seen when netbooks burst on the scene in 2008.»
«The
tablet market will likely see devices at sub - $ 250
price points within a year's time... therefore suppliers must be very aware of
lowering costs while maximizing performance and
end - user experience.»
«The success of
low -
priced tablets running custom Android versions (like the Kindle Fire and Nook Color and Nook
Tablet) will make life increasingly difficult for pure - play Android tablet vendors that are caught between Apple's high - end dominance and these products» capture of the low end,» Mainelli wrote in a report released this
Tablet) will make life increasingly difficult for pure - play Android
tablet vendors that are caught between Apple's high - end dominance and these products» capture of the low end,» Mainelli wrote in a report released this
tablet vendors that are caught between Apple's high -
end dominance and these products» capture of the
low end,» Mainelli wrote in a report released this month.
Datawind CEO Suneet Singh Tuli says he envisions the
price of Datawind's
lower -
end tablet slipping below $ 20 «within the next year or two,» if not sooner depending growth of revenue from ads and apps.
All Open Box
tablets are thoroughly tested by Geek Squad to meet stringent performance standards, so you get high -
end tech that's as good as new at a
lower price point.
The
lower cost could help the iPad compete among
price - conscious customers with high -
end, cheaper
tablets from competitors such as Amazon, Asus, and Huawei.
«Essentially, this «iPad mini» will also fend off the recently announced Amazon (AMZN, $ 235.48, NR) Kindle Fire that addresses the
low -
end tablet market with a $ 199
price tag but could lead to bigger
tablet ambitions from the online retailer in the future.»
A
low -
end tablet might sound like death in any other context, except that this is Amazon and we have seen in the past two weeks what a cut -
price tablet can do to a consumers» appetite (thanks again for that cheap TouchPad I got this week, HP).
The Amazon Fire HD 8 (2017) is among the best of the retail giant's
tablets, as while it's in many ways
lower end than the similar HD 10, the smaller screen is sharper as a result, and the
price is
lower.
So, this is a pretty
low -
end device on paper, but what's important here is the
price of just $ 119.99 and the fact that the Encore Mini is the smallest
tablet so far to run a full Windows version.