Toshiba’s Excite X10 Tablet is only 7.62mm thin and 0.53kg, but it comes with a heavy price tag of $US530 for the 16GB version and $US600 for the 32GB version. While not dissimilar in pricing strategy with the iPad, it still costs $US130 more than the Sony Tablet S and other similar Android tablets. It seems like a price drop is inevitable here.
Aside from the bloated price tag, the Excite, which is coming in the first quarter to the US, is the same tablet we previewed in September of last year: a 10.1-inch, 1280×800 resolution screen, a dual-core 1.2GHz TI OMAP4 CPU, 1GB RAM, Honeycomb 3.2 (upgradeable to Ice Cream Sandwich), dual cameras and eight hours of battery life. A solid Android tablet! But how fast will the price drop?
Andy
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 3:13 PMWayyyyyyy too expensive. It does look good though, and the 1GB of RAM is enticing. I don’t think you can charge iPad prices without being an iPad, though.
light487
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 3:26 PMStill only 32GB max on the out-of-the-box specs.. even 64gb is getting a little small these days.. I was hoping this year would see a new benchmark.. 64gb to 256gb storage.. to really bring tablets into the viable alternatives to laptops.. as it is now.. you still need to have a laptop/netbook to keep all your media on.
Damo
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 5:40 PMtotally agree
Feanorean
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 6:11 PMOr get a acer tablet and nice portable hard drive. Full sized USB FTW!
noko
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 4:15 PMToo many tablets… too fast. I mean I was planning to buy the Transformer Prime and now all these tablets. What shoud I do? I think I might just buy a golden retriever, it’s far more cute and the companionship is priceless.
Ozoneocean
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 8:34 PMThis is too expensive?
Q?
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Big Windows
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 11:36 AMAnother past it’s prime release date tablet… Happily anouncing it’s very own pricing fail…
That_Guy
Sunday, March 4, 2012 at 2:58 PMDear tablet makers,
STOP trying to charge iPad Prices for something that is not an iPad! If you don’t see fit to lower your prices substantially in order to compete with Apple then pray tell why should anyone buy your product??
Hugs and kisses,
EVERYONE