** Latest Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 N8000 16GB 3G WiFi Grey **
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Nothing to do with the deal but the product itself is a lemon. Don't waste your hard earned money to reward Sammy as it merely is exploiting the reputation built by the much thought-through product Galaxy Notes .
Yeah this one looks like a real turd for the price. No high res screen for $700, dreadful plastic casing etc. Much rather have a Transformer Infinity (or wait for Surface if that's your thing)
High res screen + active digitiser? Yeah, that would result in a most likely unusable tablet, at current specs, or a damned expensive one. Not everything is about the screen res - some people might actually want integrated pen input, and might be willing to pay for it. If you're not, then that's fine - but you can't just expect everything.
Samsung managed to fit an active digitizer into the Galaxy Note, with 1280×800at 5.3 inches. That's a pretty ridiculous pixel density. Expensive? This is already one of the most expensive Android tablets on the market
But we're not talking about pixel density here, we're talking about screen resolution only - you're just confusing the matter.
A FHD(+) display already requires, as the new iPad and TF Infinity can attest to, a fair bit of battery and GPU power, to push all the pixels - why else do you think Apple bothered slapping their 'quad-core graphics' on to the new iPad?
So you're suggesting that Samsung ought to implement a taxing feature into a device that already has a taxing feature? The active digitiser takes a fair bit of processing power as it is (and presumably RAM too, hence the bump to 2GB), and you're suggesting that they should be able to combine the two, and it'd be fine? Not to mention, the dual application windows are already a bit laggy, since they're absolute resource hogs. The CPU, GPU and battery would need major upgrades in order to be able to deal with all that - hardly going to happen. With current technology, its just not viable (at an appropriate price, anyway)
As for the expensive part: it's really not that far off comparable 10" tablets. This isn't a tablet aimed at the average consumer, its targeted at a niche market, hence the price. Samsung isn't expecting to sell these at an iPad-like volume, hence they need to increase margins to compensate. Also: it was just released, give it time, and it should drop. (Not to mention the trusty Australia tax).
If a product isn't for you, that's fine, no-one's disputing that. But that doesn't mean that, just because it doesn't suit you, it's an 'real turd'.
If this was out 4 months ago, it would had a much better prospect with that price. There is no doubt it is a niche product and may not suit everyone with the premium price of Phone + wacom digitiser and was very attractive for me back then. But now with the massive launch of many tablets from just about every major player, with Windows 8 in late Oct and the mini iPad; I dare say this price would drop significantly as there will be a price war for tablets soon. I reckon Samsung will struggle anything over $550 for the 16GB 3G in the coming months given early indication of price guides are possibly as low as $300 for a base windows 8!
the main diff here is that this
1) can make calls (some people might like it, though not everyone)
2) it has 2G memory
3) quad core cpu
4) Active digitiser (hence the name)
$400 will be a fair price
$400 for the wifi model & $499 for the 3G
The samsung series 7 is on sale for $700 at computer alliance (+$100 giftcard from sammy until the 31st). If you want the pen for actual content creation ie. taking notes/photoshop then the slate is a better choice. Samsung has a decent note taking app but really doesn't hold a candle to what MS one note can do.
Kogan have Galaxy Note 10.1 for $689 + $19 delivery, so Unique Mobiles deal is cheaper, although Kogan do have the white model at $689. Free shipping coupon anyone?