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[jdelsro19]

Until US carriers decide to let us buy data plans that don't need to be renewed every month and let the consumer pick whatever tablet we want to use on whatever carrier we choose the phone and tablet manufacturers may as well give up on 3g/4g tablets.
Carriers should be selling us service and be out of the selling of hardware. There's no reason I shouldn't be able to buy a 3g/4g tablet and activate data on it with whom ever I choose. Sell me 1Gb of data and let me use it until it's done and then I buy more. The greedy carriers are killing tablet manufacturers so they don't even include 3g/4g capabilities because if they do, the device has to be sold by the carrier. This is the practice that needs to end. Get carriers to sell service for any device, that's the way it should be. Cheers.

[OMGTECH]

Get those kindles that don't need anything other than wifi!

Two different classes, not surprised pcw is trying to compare tomatoes to foot bunions.

[Nuke61]

$500 PLUS a two year contract?

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According to CNET, Samsung executive Hankil Yoon dropped this bombshell on reporters at the show: "Honestly, we're not doing very well in the tablet market."

Really? I can't imagine why...

[JawiThesis]

I have done weeks of research of finding the best value for money tablet in the market today and have found out that the Amazon Kindle fire is the best value for money tablet. That is simply the truth.

[RichardSmith62km]

The Kindle Fire and the Nook are e-readers, they're features are too limited to be classed or compared with full-featured tablets like the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7. The price of the tablet itself at $500 is not too bad (although it could be lower), but that price WITH a contract and the monthly for the service is way overpriced. So it sounds like it isn't Samsung that's overpricing, but Verizon, which is typical, and needs to stop. Wireless providers have been scalping customers on text messaging ever since the service began to be offered, and now they're doing it on internet service, just like ISPs have been. They need to realize that lower prices can result in higher sales figures, based on the number of customers, but, they're just seeing dollar signs and not thinking long-term.

[RichardSmith62km]

oops: not "they're features" but "their features"
D'oh!

[rmm200]

Buy a Galaxy Tab 7.7 WIFI International edition for $550 (about), skip Verizon, and never pay a monthly charge for a tablet that is better than an IPad. Yes - it is that good. Amazon and Nook are captive devices for their ecosystem and not worthy of comparison.

[QUADICON]

Yet what you don't consider is the following.

The G_Tab has over 500,000 apps to choose from...the Kindle Fire doesn't.

The G-Tab can be used to print docs, runs Flash, expandable storage, can be used with an external drive and more.

The Kindle is basically a fancier device over the original Kindle that so happens to have a generic browser.

You're trying to compare an apple to an orange. Yes they are both fruits, yes they are both good for you, but each provides its own unique benefit.

A price comparison of the G-Tab to a Kindle Fire is like trying to compare a Porsche to a Volkswagen

[QUADICON]

What I don't understand is why do the tablet makets feel they have to sell a WiFi only device through a carrier? Sell the WiFi version son the frikkin store shelves. Even Apple admitted they don't sell that many 3G iPad.

Carrier lock is the biggest bunch of BS in the world. When I want cable, I don't have to buy the tv on a contract do I? When I want satellite I don't pay for the tv over a contract do I? So why should a cellphone or tablet be any different.

That is surely one reason I will never buy a tablet right now. Carrier-lock is a sad way to sell you product.

Sell me a tablet where I can reach on the shelf and say I want this.

Why even make a 3G enabled tablet? Most people have cellphones now. If they need the tablet to get online, add $20.00 per month to your data plan s you can tether. You have to be a pretty foolish to pay all this extra money to a carrier for nothing.

You may as well get the Galaxy Note and have one device that does both for that money. At least you won't be paying for 2 devices that pretty much so the same thing.

People just waste money.

[Michael28gt]

Of course cell radio tablets aren't selling -- the US carriers are killing them.

I really want a tablet. I really want an Android tablet (love my MacBook, but iPad is too locked down for my tastes). But most of all, I really want an 7-9" Android tablet that can get online anywhere, AND reliably make and receive phone calls. (No I don't want to hold it against my head -- speakerphone and bluetooth would be fine, thank you.)

Elsewhere in the world, all of Samsung's tablets can do this. However, every major US carrier, for no reason other than obstinately thinking this will undercut their smartphone marketshare, refuses to support this and cripples the devices. STUPID STUPID STUPID.

I carry a stupidphone, because I can't stand tiny touchscreen keyboards. If I'm going to pay for a data plan, I want it on a device that I can actually use to do work. But I also don't want to carry two devices everywhere. So rather than forcing me into two dataplans like they're hoping, the carriers are turning me away from getting a data plan. Heckuva job, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile.

[dtr1452]

jdelsro19, on 28 February 2012 - 04:23 PM, said:

Until US carriers decide to let us buy data plans that don't need to be renewed every month and let the consumer pick whatever tablet we want to use on whatever carrier we choose the phone and tablet manufacturers may as well give up on 3g/4g tablets.
Carriers should be selling us service and be out of the selling of hardware. There's no reason I shouldn't be able to buy a 3g/4g tablet and activate data on it with whom ever I choose. Sell me 1Gb of data and let me use it until it's done and then I buy more. The greedy carriers are killing tablet manufacturers so they don't even include 3g/4g capabilities because if they do, the device has to be sold by the carrier. This is the practice that needs to end. Get carriers to sell service for any device, that's the way it should be. Cheers.

I completely agree. I have moved away from all the subscription phone carriers and I am now with a prepaid carrier. When I need more minutes I just buy more. I also got a great Samsung phone from an internet website for about $10. I bought a brand new Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 16GB 3G on a recent trip to China. I have yet to try and activate it with the monopoly carriers in the US. We'll see what kind of nightmare that is going to be. I bought it for about $520US. Of course, it's not practical to fly across the ocean to make such a purchase, just happened to be here and i was in the market for a new tablet. By the way, my wife brought her Kindle Fire on the trip to Japan, Hong Kong, and Macau and she has had nothing but trouble trying to get it connect to a wifi network, Starbucks being the exception. Later.

[RickSickelsmith]

But most of all, I really want an 7-9" Android tablet that can get online anywhere, AND reliably make and receive phone calls. (No I don't want to hold it against my head -- speakerphone and bluetooth would be fine, thank you.)


This sentence describes EXACTLY how I feel and have felt since tablets first showed up on the US radar.

[SashaEubanks]

RickSickelsmith, on 15 April 2012 - 05:27 AM, said:

But most of all, I really want an 7-9" Android tablet that can get online anywhere, AND reliably make and receive phone calls. (No I don't want to hold it against my head -- speakerphone and bluetooth would be fine, thank you.)


This sentence describes EXACTLY how I feel and have felt since tablets first showed up on the US radar.

I completely and totally agree. I don't understand why the option to make/receive calls from the tablet is not available stateside. I don't like having both my phone and tablet in my bag. If I could make/receive calls from the tablet, I would really get rid of my phone and be completely ok with that decision.

I have the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 incher and love it.