HTC follows BlackBerry to $299 tablet bargain bin

Release Date ‎Oct 2, 2011‎ in CNET

 
   

Yet another tablet deal: HTC Flyer price slashed to $299

Washington Post - Sean Hollister - 4 Oct, 2011
Seven might be the magic number for Android tablet manufacturers, but $499 is not looking terribly good; now that you can preorder a Kindle Fire for $200, competitors are bracing for sticker shock. Today, Best Buy announced it'll ...

HTC follows BlackBerry to $299 tablet bargain bin

CNET - Brooke Crothers - ‎Oct 2, 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 ...

Tablet Fire Sale: 5 Cheap Tablets

PCWorld - Jared Newman - ‎Oct 1, 2011‎
Between the popularity of Apple's iPad and the looming threat of Amazon's Kindle Fire, times are tough for other tablet makers. But their loss is your gain, as retailers have resorted to offering deep ...

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, ...

Confirmed: Best Buy Offering HTC Flyer for $300

Phandroid.com - Quentyn Kennemer - 4 Oct, 2011
Late last week, a rumor emerged suggesting Best Buy would discount the HTC Flyer to $300. We believed this was due to the low-priced Kindle Fire tablet that has already gotten over 100000 preorders a ...

HTC Flyer Global Price Drop Reaches Europe

International Business Times AU - William Endo - 4 Oct, 2011
HTC's first tablet, the HTC Flyer, was given a price slash from UK retailers. The tablet was given its first price slash along with other tablets from retailers at US following the launch of Amazon's Kindle ...

HTC tablet price reduced by 40 percent in US

China Post - 4 Oct, 2011
Cutthroat competition and the appearance of a new kid on the block have forced leading Taiwan electronics maker HTC Corporation to mark down the retail price of its “Flyer” seven-inch tablet PC in the United States by a whopping 40 percent, ...

BlackBerry PlayBook and HTC Flyer Deals " $200 Off The Usual Price Tag

G 4 Games - 4 Oct, 2011
by Catalin on October 3, 2011 Some say that the best things in life are free and at times I cannot argue but what if the best things in life don't cost you an arm and a leg? What if you can get said things for ridiculously low prices? ...

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

eMoneyDaily - Rachael Brunelli - ‎Oct 3, 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. ...

BestBuy Slashes HTC Flyer Price To $299.99

ITProPortal - Desire Athow - ‎Oct 3, 2011‎
BestBuy has cut the price of HTC's diminutive tablet, the Flyer, down to $299.99 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 its original £479.99 in the UK ...

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

IntoMobile - Dusan Belic - ‎Oct 3, 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 - ‎Oct 3, 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 - ‎Oct 3, 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 - ‎Oct 3, 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) - ‎Oct 2, 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 - ‎Oct 2, 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 - ‎Oct 2, 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 ...

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 ...

 

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