HTC follows BlackBerry to $299 tablet bargain bin

CNET - Brooke Crothers - 3 Oct, 2011
The HTC Flyer is the latest tablet to see its price kicked down a couple hundred bucks, as the market adjusts to the impact of the $99 HP TouchPad fire sale and a just-announced $199 Amazon Kindle Fire. It comes with the Android 2.3 Gingerbread ...

HTC Flyer To Get Price Chop As Tablet Price Collapse Continues

Forbes - ‎Sep 30, 2011‎
I joined Forbes' Silicon Valley bureau in 2007. I've fed a laptop to a tiger, staked out a warehouse filled with Apple computers, outsourced my job so I could spend more time writing titles for porn flicks, raced cupcake cars, tried to shoot a laptop ...

More Kindle Fire Fallout? Best Buy Knocks $200 Off HTC Flyer

PC Magazine - Damon Poeter - ‎Sep 30, 2011‎
Tablet-makers and retailers are reacting fast to the low, low sticker price on Amazon's new Kindle Fire, with the HTC Flyer the latest tablet to get a major price reduction at Best Buy stores in the US on Friday. The 7-inch, 16GB Flyer, ...

Best Buy slashing HTC Flyer permanently to $299 on 1 October

ZDNet (blog) - Matthew Miller - ‎Sep 30, 2011‎
Summary: If you are looking for an excellent Android tablet in a 7 inch form factor then I recommend you head over to Best Buy this weekend for the HTC Flyer. Even though I have an Apple iPad 2, ...

Tablet fire sale: 5 cheap tablets

ITworld.com - 3 Oct, 2011
Between the iPad and the upcoming Kindle Fire, it's a tough market for other tablet makers. October 03, 2011, 10:24 AM " Between the popularity of Apple's iPad and the looming threat of Amazon's Kindle Fire, times are tough for other tablet makers. ...

Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) Discounts HTC Flyer To Compete With Kindle

eMoneyDaily - Rachael Brunelli - 3 Oct, 2011
To compete with Amazon's low-cost Kindle Fire, the electronic retailer Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) has announced a $200 discount on HTC Flyer. The 7-inch 16GB HTC Flyer tablet now costs only $300 and is available at Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) stores and online. ...

HTC Flyer goes the $299 route to gain more traction

All Touch Tablet - 3 Oct, 2011
It's interesting how tablet manufacturers are now realizing pricing was a huge issues with their products in the war against the iPad and iPad 2 tablets from Apple. People don't want to pay the same price for an inferior product. ...

BestBuy Slashes HTC Flyer Price To $299.99

ITProPortal - Desire Athow - 3 Oct, 2011
BestBuy has cut the price of HTC's diminutive tablet, the Flyer, down to $299.99 starting from last week, down from $499.99 which might be a hint at how the tablet is performing in the wider tablet market. Unfortunately, the Flyer is still on sale at ...

Best Buy will offer HTC Flyer for $300 on October 6th

IntoMobile - Dusan Belic - 3 Oct, 2011
Presuming you still haven't grabbed the Apple iPad and for some reason don't want the Amazon Fire for some reason (too much customizations on top of Android, privacy concerns?), maybe you'll be interested to grab the HTC Flyer for less. ...

HTC drops Flyer tablet price

Expert Reviews - 3 Oct, 2011
HTC has followed in the footsteps of rival tablet maker Research In Motion - creator of the BlackBerry PlayBook QNX-based tablet - and dropped the price of its seven-inch Flyer to £329. The 7in tablet originally launched in the UK for £479, ...

HTC Flyer price drop

MyBroadband - 3 Oct, 2011
Derrick joined MyBroadband in 2011 as a junior journalist with a strong background in computer hardware and gaming. He is also regular columnist and hardware... Following the launch of the Amazon Kindle Fire at a price point of $199 (R1,615.50), ...

HTC Flyer Android Tablet Dropped To $299

Geeky gadgets - Roland Hutchinson - 3 Oct, 2011
With the announcement of Amazon's $199 Kindle Fire Android tablet last week, we are expecting to see some existing Android tablets get a price drop, the first one of those is HTC's Flyer tablet which went on sale back in May for $499.99, ...

Best Buy reduces price of HTC Flyer tablet

Telecompaper (subscription) - 3 Oct, 2011
US retailer of consumer technology products Best Buy has reduced the price of the HTC Flyer from USD 499.99 to USD 299.99. Customers can avail this lower price online at BestBuy.com and at all Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile standalone stores. ...

HTC Flyer tablet price drop

PCR-online.biz - Mat Bettinson - 3 Oct, 2011
HTC have slashed the price of the 7-inch HTC Flyer tablet with the device appearing for $299 in the US and £329 in the UK. Originally launched at the eye watering price of £479, the sleek well-made and stylus ...

Just Bought An HTC Flyer? BB Offering $200 Back " If You Hurry!

News For Shoppers - 3 Oct, 2011
Best Buy dramatically dropped the price of the HTC flyer yesterday, from $499 to $299. Considering the recent HP TouchPad firesale, and all the after-sale hoopla that caused, we had to ask “What if I just bought an HTC flyer, will I be reimbursed for ...

HTC Flyer Tablet Now $300 to Compete With Low Cost Kindle Fire

Operation Android - Marshall Walker - ‎Oct 2, 2011‎
The HP TouchPad and Kindle Fire have created a domino effect in tablet prices. Best Buy permanently dropped the HTC Flyer to $300 on Saturday to compete with the low cost Amazon tablet. That's $200 less than its normal $500 asking price. ...

Will Tablet Makers Experience 'Margin Compression'

Seeking Alpha - ‎Oct 2, 2011‎
Best buy has released a statement saying that as of Oct.1, the price of the HTC Flyer (read our review) will drop from $499 to $299. This is hot on the heels of a similar announcement about the BlackBerry Playbook, which also saw a $200 price drop to ...

HTC Flyer now costs just $300 at Best Buy

Good E-Reader (blog) - Sovan Mandal - ‎Oct 1, 2011‎
Its turning out to be a season of price cuts and heavy discounts. It had all started out with the now famous discount on the HP TouchPad but the latest to be infected with the price cut bug is the Flyer from HTC. ...

[DEAL ALERT] HTC Flyer Price Tag Crashing To $299 This Month

GizmoCrunch - Valeria Wilson - ‎Oct 1, 2011‎
As October arrives, the market is set to be bombarded with high powered smartphones like the iPhone 5, Google Nexus Prime and HTC Vigor (HTC Thunderbolt 2). However it isn't just the smartphone front that looks exciting. If you're in the market for a ...

Best Buy drops HTC Flyer price to $299, we sense a tablet price war approaching

GSMArena.com (blog) - ‎Oct 1, 2011‎
It seems Amazon may have started a tablet price war with its $199 Kindle Fire (or was it HP?). Either that or Best Buy suddenly realized that the HTC Flyer was way too expensive, because they have announced a $200 price cut on HTC's premier tablet. ...

7-inch HTC Flyer tablet price cut by $200 today

Neowin - ‎Oct 1, 2011‎
Ever since Amazon announced earlier this week that it would sell its 7-inch 8 GB Android powered tablet, the Kindle Fire, for just $199, there have been rumblings of a tablet price war. This week, retailer Best Buy announced that another previously ...

HTC Flyer WiFi now selling for $299 at Best Buy

AndroidOS.in - ‎Oct 1, 2011‎
Following the $199 Kindle Fire announcement by Amazon, Best Buy has decided to reduce the price of HTC Flyer WiFi. This seven inch Gingerbread tablet is now available for just $299, down from $499 at BestBuy.com and at all Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile ...

HTC Flyer sees price drop to $299

Afterdawn.com - Andre Yoskowitz - ‎Sep 30, 2011‎
Best Buy has dropped the price of the HTC Flyer to $299 from its launch price of $499, effective tomorrow. While the tablet was popular for the 7-inch demographic, it was clearly overpriced considering the market leader iPad 2, at 9.7-inches, ...

HTC Flyer price cut $200; watch out for falling (non-iPad) tablet prices

Examiner.com - ‎Sep 30, 2011‎
Beware of falling tablet prices, at least for non-iPad tablets. Although manufacturers are constrained by the bill-of-materials (BOM) cost of their devices, they're also slashing prices to at least try to make a dent in the iPad's market dominance. ...

Best Buy discounts HTC Flyer to $299 post Kindle Fire

Punch Jump - Marcus Lai - ‎Sep 30, 2011‎
Best Buy Co. Inc. this week said it will discount HTC Corp.'s HTC Flyer tablet by $200 post Amazon.com Inc.'s announcement of the Kindle Fire tablet. Beginning Oct. 1, the HTC ...

Best Buy Dropping Price Of Flyer To $300, Second Time HTC Has Made Sense

Android Police - David Ruddock - ‎Sep 30, 2011‎
The HTC Flyer was the Taiwanese handset company's first foray into the tablet game - a 7" device with a 1.5GHz single-core processor, two cameras, an SD card slot, and 16GB of storage (digital stylus not included). At $500, it was pretty obviously ...

Kindle Fire sets off tablet war: HTC cuts its 'Flyer' price by $200 at Best Buy

Examiner.com - ‎Sep 30, 2011‎
On launch day of Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet, we said “Let the price wars begin...” in an examiner.com story covering the new device, and quicker than the word “discount” could be uttered, HTC has taken up the challenge for an affordable tablet by ...

HTC Flyer getting $200 discount from Best Buy

Gadgetell - Jeremy Hill - ‎Sep 30, 2011‎
Maybe it's just me, but when the HTC Flyer was released, I thought it was too expensive for what it offered. The Flyer is a 7-inch Android 2.3 tablet with 16GB of internal memory.The unique aspect of the Flyer ...

HTC Flyer price being reduced to $299 on October 1

Digitaltrends.com - ‎Sep 30, 2011‎
HTC is cutting the price of its 7 inch Android tablet the HTC Flyer to $299 in response to the $199 Amazon Kindle Fire. If you have been shopping for a 7 inch tablet this has been a great week for you. First Amazon announces its Fire tablet, ...

Best Buy to slash HTC Flyer price tag

Ubergizmo - George Wong - ‎Sep 30, 2011‎
In the wake of HP's fire sale for the TouchPad, it looks like yet another tablet will be given a price reduction to encourage sales. This time around it's the HTC Flyer, thanks to the folks over at Best Buy. It has been reported that starting tomorrow, ...

 

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