Samsung hints at Tab pricing while raising Smartphone sales forecast

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Personally, I wouldn't get attached to these numbers, and also they may actually be listing these post-subsidy, only time will tell. However, I would venture to guess that these are a better way to define the price than looking at Expansys, the first comer to listing the device. But Samsung has been talking to the Korean press a bit about the near-term including the Galaxy Tab, Bada Sales and smartphone sales forecasts for 2010 & 2011:

"The Galaxy Tab enhances portability and readability by having a 7-inch LCD screen. It will cost slightly more than the Galaxy S smartphone,’’ Shin said.

He added the Tab will be retail-priced at $300 to $400.

While, typically, retail probably implies that it's a non-contract sale, but I wouldn't get my hopes up due to differences in our languages and terms.

http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz...123_72507.html


In a separate newspaper they quote shin on Galaxy Tab sales projections:

Samsung also expects to sell 1 million units of its new tablet PC Galaxy Tab, which will be launched in the domestic and global markets in early October, according to Shin.

Somewhat interestingly, they didn't get the same amount of clarification on price as KoreaTimes did.

http://www.koreaherald.com/business/...20100903000549

Mmmm more speculation *laps it up*. I love it.

Its still all up in the air, since someone in the other thread said O2 germany was was going for 100euros after subsidy, so $300-400 without would seem to fit that pattern...

Compared to the SGS, what you have to ask yourself is this: Does a 7" LCD cost more or less than a 4" SAMOLED screen?... Since they otherwise are nearly identical parts wise, a price that low wouldn't actually shock me. There will be many happy consumers if they get it that low

The difference here is this is coming from Samsung, given to a prominent Korean newspaper. Based on history, this is better than rumors that start from many techblogs, salesmen, carriers, and strip mall kiosks where someone talked to an employee during their lunchbreak. Samsung is very forthcoming to the Korean media, this isn't Apple being tight-lipped, full of anonymous sources that we, as readers, can't trace. This is a prominent employee, on record, being quoted.



I'll use different speculation, to speculate more. The biggest change, cost wise, I'd guess would be the battery. 4,000 mAh would bring a larger cost change than the screen change, the LCD is a more common tech.

While I know a 4" SAMOLED would be very costly for a competitor to use in their device, if Samsung sold them, costs are different. Costs shouldn't be much different to produce a SAMOLED as an AMOLED, because it was the R&D that changed a production process, but didn't really increase the cost to produce. The 7" lcd can be very similar or even priced the same.

Other small changes, a more expensive wifi chip and a cheaper rear facing camera.

Originally Posted by alovell83

The difference here is this is coming from Samsung, given to a prominent Korean newspaper. Based on history, this is better than rumors that start from many techblogs, salesmen, carriers, and strip mall kiosks where someone talked to an employee during their lunchbreak. Samsung is very forthcoming to the Korean media, this isn't Apple being tight-lipped, full of anonymous sources that we, as readers, can't trace. This is a prominent employee, on record

I agree entirely. Samsung are the only people who can tell us pricing, and yet non-accountable double-the-ipad prices continue to get slung around, not only here, but across a dozen or more droid boards, and yet whenever you tell them to be realistic or that rumours mean NOTHING, you get told that if you don't have any other numbers you can STFU and let them trash the device.

*shakes head*

Personally I trust samsung a lot more than people discussing how fail the Tab will be.


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Originally Posted by espantajo

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Originally Posted by selat

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