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www.mobileplanet.com increased their Touch Cruise (English) pricing by 10% over the weekend. Anyone know why? (lack of competition?)
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www.mobileplanet.com increased their Touch Cruise (English) pricing by 10% over the weekend. Anyone know why? (lack of competition?)
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So far, any UK retailer with actual stock has done that. Just somewhat cynical opportunism ... I've asked the devicewire forum member why he thinks that actual supply is so pathetic - best estimate now is mid-February, but that's not to be believed either.
Good question
However the price raises are making me more likely to wait until other Touch phones come along from Nokia or Samsung like the i900.
TmanTman said:
However the price raises are making me more likely to wait until other Touch phones come along from Nokia or Samsung like the i900.
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Yes ... I prefer the phone/PDA/GPS combo, so I'm looking at the MWg Atom V (Expansys Hong Kong). Due in Feb (sound familiar ?), SirFIII GPS (excellent !!), same breadth/thickness as Polaris, 5mm longer (not so good), 64Mb RAM (liveable !), over $100 cheaper (excellent !!), no front video camera (excellent, I never use it and don't want to pay for it). Actual retail time cannot be any worse. I still suspect that this pathetic release date fiasco is due to the US Court injunction on Qualcomm for convicted patent infringement.
http://www.pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=1020
for specs so far
Sounds interesting, but I think the TC can't be topped yet right now (If we get the GPU drivers that is) But you will not like 64 MB RAM. The Touch also has 64 MB RAM, and it lags like hell on WM6. Ok the CPU is a lot faster (500 MHz) but I didn't find a GPU spec so I'm thinking that it'll be the same cr*p like the Eten Glofiish X800...
TC in trouble if this Glofiish V900 arrives
I realize E-Ten's releases are normally put back and back(AKA HTC's Touch Cruise) but this Glofiish V900 looks the business. Watch out HTC!!!
http://www.tracyandmatt.co.uk/blogs/index.php
Hi
I want to upgrade my XDA Orbit (Artemis) to the XDA Orbit 2 (Polaris / Cruise).
However when comparing the two PDAs i see that theres not much difference... I already have TouchFlo on my Artemis, got navigation software, memory is not a problem, etc.
The only things that are new is the hard flush screen, the 3MP camera, 3G and...er...thats all i can think of!
So anyways my main question is, those people who have upgraded from the artemis to the polaris, is it worth paying £150 (or $300) for those few extra features? Is there anything I should know that makes the polaris significantly better than the artemis?
Thanks...
100% faster CPU.
More memory is always better for performance and it has 100% more memory too.
Also, given that all the cool apps are included in ROM in means even more memory is free to boost performance.
& you can sell it on eBay for approx. £350 if you arn't impressed.
Yh on eBay they are selling for huge amounts of money... £350
I recently bought a 22 inch monitor for my computer. I spent £140.00 on it but now I think its time I sold that along with my XDA Orbit and bought a XDA Orbit II.
They don't look as nice with the silver front. Why didn't O2 keep it black ;( Lol
The speed is a bonus aswell, I don't know why they used a 200Mhz processor for the orbit 1? Thats just really stupid in my opinion, just makes the PDA...well slower lol especially when it was the latest PDA of its time and the previous ones had like 400Mhz processors. It makes it stand out, but not in a good way.
Anyway I will try to sell my orbit to friends and not on eBay because on eBay they go for really cheap now!
As for the monitor I'll try get that sold....man I really regret buying it in the first place now, i bought it weeks before the orbit 2 was released - the money i was saving TO BUY the orbit 2! I just got impatient lol...
Does anyone know where I can get an orbit 2 for £300 ? or can anyone predict when they will dramatically fall in value on eBay (and start selling for like...£280-£320)
Thanks!
(P.S. - "& you can sell it on eBay for approx. £350 if you arn't impressed." -- I doubt i wouldnt be impressed with a PDA like that lol
My single reason for the upgrade from P3300 to Polaris was iGo 8 Try to run this one on a 200 Mhz CPU with 64 MB RAM. It's unusable. On the Polaris it rocks
Last but not least: The Polaris IS much faster even than Meschle's fastest ROMS for the P3300 And that with stock ROM. I can't imagine how much bigger the difference will get when Meschle gets a Polaris
Well the 3G sold it for me! But the faster processor and extra memory were plusses too.
Yh his ROMS are fast and if the factory Polaris ones are fast... pheeww.... thats gonna be lightning LOL
Just took a look at eBay - If I were to sell my Artemis i'd get about £135-£145 UK Pounds (one UK Pound is two American Dollars).
A massive decrease from when I last bought it. They have just plumetted in value... should I try to sell my Artemis A.S.A.P. and get what I can from it and not have a PDA for 2-3 months (to wait for the value of the Polaris to decrease) and then buy the Polaris?
I can try get about £180 for it from friends - some are not aware of the massive price decrease LOL.
Ok just gave my XDA Orbit 1 (HTC Artemis) to my friends dad who is going to try it out for a few days. If he likes it, he will pay £180 for it!
Wish me luck! Hope that it doesn't break or somehow mess up and that hes pleased with it and wants to buy it! I regulary see my friend and his dad and if he buys it and then something goes wrong hes going to come to me with the questions!
Yas
Hi,
does someone know the usual price policy of HTC concerning new models? Do previous ones become cheaper once a new one is available?
I'd be particularly interested in the Diamond, as the Diamond 2 will be available soon and I'd like to know whether I could expect a price drop soon.
Thanks.
lutent said:
Hi,
does someone know the usual price policy of HTC concerning new models? Do previous ones become cheaper once a new one is available?
I'd be particularly interested in the Diamond, as the Diamond 2 will be available soon and I'd like to know whether I could expect a price drop soon.
Thanks.
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It´s logic that prices goes down with the launching of new models, I don´t know if HTC has a policy and don´t really think so...
But let me give you an example of how the prices "down"
At least on my country, one of the lastest countries in the world to recieve any new model of almost anything.
Now days the actual price for an HTC S621 (Excalibur) is around $357USD!!!, X-peria is $1214USD (Just to give some examples)
With this example you can see that here lowing the prices does not apply
Maybe in other countries where new models arrive soon as they are launched you can see a sensitive decrease of the prices.
Just my point of view.
orb3000 said:
It´s logic that prices goes down with the launching of new models, I don´t know if HTC has a policy and don´t really think so...
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Yes, thats why I am asking. I wasnt actually thinking of a real strict policy but rather about how HTC respectively most of the vendors acted upon the availability of a successor.
Did the prices usually decrease quickly once a successor was out or did they remain stable? I am asking because I want to get a Diamond but wouldnt really like to have a sudden price drop within two weeks.
i am thinking the same thing but with an experia
The prices apparently do not decrease with a new version. I just looked whether the price of the Diamond's predecessor, the Touch, dropped in price and it did not.
However right now I am seriously reconsidering anyway if I am getting a Diamond after having read http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=439410
supply and demand
I'd suspect that htc stop making
devices when newer ones come out
Yes that´s correct
But that is happening on the first world countries where consumism is more faster.
On other countries like mine due to the late arriving of new models we have a 2 year delay making the "old" models still being here sold as new and at impresive high prices.
I´m sure other countries behaive similar.
yep, it depends wich country your in if the price is going to drop. That's why ebay is a good reference for purchase with it's many different international sellers.
Here in Hong Kong Definitely price of a previous model will drop if the New Model comes out.
Just to give you some numbers for a HTC TOUCH HD.
When the HD was released here in HK it has costed initially ca. $930USD now HD will be sold for ca.$650USD. Most likely by the time Touch Pro2 will be coming out, the price will drop further ca.100-150USD.
However HTC made smart move and did not announced the TP2 is a direct succesor of HD but atleast it is almost the same just differences of Keyboard, miner screen issue and the camera. Therefore I believe here HK any new buyer will sure go with the TP2 which will put pressure of HD price.
With this years economy situation and other WinMo device manufacturer coming up with better devices ,HTC will be needing to droping the prices. Just Today I have seen the new Asus P835 just for ca.420 USD which has almost the same specs. like a HTC HD
Therefore as others also meantioned if you are in a country in which those new devices will be released on day 1 then I would say it is worth to wait for few more weeks.
Thanks everyone.
A price drop is also what I would have imagined, however as mentioned previously it doesnt seem to take place - at least here in Europe. The Diamond's predecessor, the Touch, started at EUR 410 and is now down to EUR 310 (when the Diamond was introduced it was at EUR 340). The Diamond at the other hand was initially available for EUR 500 and is now down to EUR 380.
So the price drop is rather equal, even with the Diamond not having yet a successor out.
Hey guys, my N1 died today (Long and sad story) and I need a budget handset that does the job. I don't need anything too fancy apart from a decently active community for it. I don't have a price in mind but want to keep it relatively low i.e. persuade me to spend more lol
Cheers!
Hello There, Sub £100 pounds you have 2 choices, San Fransisco from Orange, A Extremely good android Phone only £99.99, or T Mobile Pulse, which i believe is only £50, now if you want to spend up to £150, you could get HTC Wildfire, Sony X10 mini and mini pro from Vodafone
biggary said:
Hello There, Sub £100 pounds you have 2 choices, San Fransisco from Orange, A Extremely good android Phone only £99.99, or T Mobile Pulse, which i believe is only £50, now if you want to spend up to £150, you could get HTC Wildfire, Sony X10 mini and mini pro from Vodafone
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Would you recommend any of those? I saw both the wildfire and x10 mini and both look pretty nice.
My alternative is to send my Nexus one off to HTC to get it repaired at my own cost. In short my power button is gone (Flex and button) and the digitizer is brand new (I.e. it won't need replaced) but doesn't register any touches, which I believe is due to my messing around in the internals. Does anyone know how much HTC would charge at the maximum? I don't want to pay to get it shipped off and returned if i'm going to be given a >£200 figure. Ugh! What to do!
A friend of mine has the San Francisco from Orange. You get all the features you would on a high-end phone, but don't expect to be able to play the latest 3D games or take awesome shots with the camera, the UI is a bit laggy as well. Overall definitely worth £99 though.
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A friend of mine has the San Francisco from Orange. You get all the features you would on a high-end phone, but don't expect to be able to play the latest 3D games or take awesome shots with the camera, the UI is a bit laggy as well. Overall definitely worth £99 though.
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Definitely a possible choice for me now, thanks for the input bud.
SanFran is the way to go, I had a pulse which I sold when I got my Sanfran, wouldn't go back.
San Francisco is the way to go your phone shouldn't cost that much to mend though, any problems just pm me
http://www.hkepc.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=1576672&extra=page=1
It's a T2 with 9.7" IPS screen.
You can read it all there.
P.S. pershoot and bekit, you should get this soon.....hahaha
How much is the T8?
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Well, the article says 2000 yuan. That's around $300 if I'm not mistaken.
So, is this essentially a G-Pad with an IPS 1024x768 screen?
If so, it would be a bargain at $300, the solution to our screen woes.
Will it be sold in the US?
shall I see what I can get them for from my supplier that I get everything else from?
[EDIT] just looked at alibaba and they look to run $700 and up!... I'll see what I can find out.
it2steve said:
shall I see what I can get them for from my supplier that I get everything else from?
[EDIT] just looked at alibaba and they look to run $700 and up!... I'll see what I can find out.
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Not a player at $700.00 ... but if you can work your magic, I'd like a ticket please
HOLLY COW!
That's what I wanted!
I want an IPS panel so bad I almost bought a used ipad! Phew!
Intrested if its in the gtab range
Oh silly me its 3g thus the much higher price
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it2steve said:
shall I see what I can get them for from my supplier that I get everything else from?
[EDIT] just looked at alibaba and they look to run $700 and up!... I'll see what I can find out.
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Can't hurt to ask. If in G-Tab range, I would seriously consider buying one and selling the G-Tab.
But if $700, I am way happy with my $390 G-Tab.
A user feedback.
http://www.hkepc.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=1576672&extra=page=1
我上星期四在廣州天河電腦城買了這台T8，
人仔3900買的，
玩了五天便2000人仔賣掉了，
這機wifi和3G的訊號非常差，
尤其wifi問題非常嚴重，
經常斷線和接收不到！
From google translate. he said that he bought it last thursday for $3900 Yen (US $600), and 5 days later, he sold it for $2000 yen (US $300). The wifi and 3g were poor and had big problem... something like that..
I will get Xoom then.
samepic said:
How much is the T8?
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Currently, listed at a crazy RMB 3999, which is about USD 608.
That's why I said I would not buy it at that price.
I am quite sure it will drop when it start mass production.
After all, iPAD is only RMB 2888, even though this RMB 3999 come with a WCDMA module, it 's still a suicidal act to sell it at that.
The IPS is beautiful. I have the very first batch of T2 which use a 90 degree off cut of the TN panel, so that the negative effect is on the short side and viewing angle is better than the Viewsonic Version. Still, T8 beats it, no doubt.
tyy10002 said:
A user feedback.
http://www.hkepc.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=1576672&extra=page=1
我上星期四在廣州天河電腦城買了這台T8，
人仔3900買的，
玩了五天便2000人仔賣掉了，
這機wifi和3G的訊號非常差，
尤其wifi問題非常嚴重，
經常斷線和接收不到！
From google translate. he said that he bought it last thursday for $3900 Yen (US $600), and 5 days later, he sold it for $2000 yen (US $300). The wifi and 3g were poor and had big problem... something like that..
I will get Xoom then.
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Hahaha....This guy is funny and not very bright....
Here is the story, he brought it from the offical story at listed price, I think he must be really love it.
anyway, he said that there is WIFI problem and b****ing about it at the forum.
So the people in the forum told him that he said contact the store and get a exchange.
He said that forum is a offical forum and keep b****ing about it there, so the people there got mad and banned him.
He is mad then sold the unit for RMB 2000, which is a bit more than USD 300.
Since there is a exchange policy in the store, the person who brought it off him took it back to the store and exchange a new unit.......hahaha, a real steal at USD 300.
His original unit, was tested in the store and it connect WIFI OK, so they don't really know what he is talking about.
That's why I shown the WIFI Analyzer picture and have it side by side with my T2 and shown that they are about the same performance.
I guess this person just has load of money and does not know better.....
Yep... Official word is my cost is $630 (alibaba is even higher). I was told that Malata is going to have to start dropping prices due to the iPad price dump.
I was also told that it's mainly to be an international seller, so unless US Merchants or someone like that pics it up we probably wont see it too streamlined here. ALSO, means very little DEV love due to lack of availability.
Oh well, I would have played for $300.
Time will tell.
$400 US, and I would consider it - Tegra2 and IPS would be a match made in heaven.
It2steve! you can be our us Source!! that or find out what screen they used so we can use it on our Gtablets!
Malata T8 details
The price of the Malata T8 is 3000 RMB = 461 US$
This is for the WLAN / 3G version and it is from the Malta online shop. You need to have Alipay or other chinese payment methods to buy it there.
You find the description including Pictures for the panel on the Malata .cn Homepage. The description is not available in english so far but it is easy to navigate anyway.
There is no clear indication for the Android version, but it is Android 2.2. Quite good is the USB-Ethernet adaptor. It is not clear for me if the adaptor comes with the tablet but the tablet is ready to use for that interface. Further more Malate makes advertisment for the use of external hard drives without additional power adaptor.
hey at this price I'd rather wait and buy the ASUS Transformer $400 + Keyboard Dock $150 = $550, and it's Honeycomb w/ Tegra2 and 1280x800 IPS as well!
h**p://www .bhphotovideo. com/c/search?Ntt=asus+transformer&N=0&InitialSearch=yes
it2steve said:
Yep... Official word is my cost is $630 (alibaba is even higher). I was told that Malata is going to have to start dropping prices due to the iPad price dump.
I was also told that it's mainly to be an international seller, so unless US Merchants or someone like that pics it up we probably wont see it too streamlined here. ALSO, means very little DEV love due to lack of availability.
Oh well, I would have played for $300.
Time will tell.
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cdsdcb said:
hey at this price I'd rather wait and buy the ASUS Transformer $400 + Keyboard Dock $150 = $550, and it's Honeycomb w/ Tegra2 and 1280x800 IPS as well!
h**p://www .bhphotovideo. com/c/search?Ntt=asus+transformer&N=0&InitialSearch=yes
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Yep, at 399 ya can't beat the Transformer. I have mine on pre-order at B&H as of this morning. I just wonder exactly how many other are on pre-order ahead of me. LOL
Here is live chat with Malata:
我 07:57:53
there is Tegra 2 T250 3D and T250 not 3D
我 07:57:58
Which one used on T2 and T8
万利达销售：7 07:58:48
Tegra 2 T250 3D used on T8
我 07:59:10
For sure?
我 08:00:10
T2 is Not 3D and T8 is 3D?
万利达销售：7 08:00:46
T2 is T20
That's pretty much explains T8's price ... besides it's amazing IPS screen....
As happy buyer of T8 just day ago online...I can't wait for DHL Express bring this baby