As a one man news site and a full-time student, I was overwhelmed with my final exams and couldn’t write as much. Nevertheless, hopefully you have received your news from other places. I will continue writing from now.
Initially envisioned to be a “dead simple” tablet for $200, the price had seesawed between $200 and $300 for a while, until Chandra Rathakrishnan, CEO of FusionGarage, was interviewed by the Straits Times where it mentioned that the price is “not confirmed yet, though it is likely to be in the range of US$399 (S$575).”
This is obviously just a guesstimate of the journalist at hand and I have contacted him to figure this out (Update: Tan Weizhen says this wasn’t a guesstimate, but was from the source which is unnamed of course). The blogoshpere exploded when the $400 price was mentioned, yet it would help if some merit were attached to it.
In other news, Arrington has not kept his promise of holding a press event in July. In the Straits Times article, Chandra mentioned that it will be available around November.
http://www.techmeme.com/090731/h1915
http://www.techmeme.com/090731/h1915
What the hell is going on? Where is the news conference? Its way passed the end of July. Well, shit, I guess I’ll just have to stop watching for it.
CrunchPad.com Redirects For The Third Time // Aug 26, 2009 at 3:29 pm
[...] but since then there has been no sign of the launch prototype. When I spoke to Tan Weizhen of Singapore’s Straits Times, he was not allowed to to view the aluminum launch prototype (which is what will be released), only [...]