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Looks like the 7-inch tablet wars are truly upon us. Google’s in there already, Apple’s rumoured to be joining the party, and one of the original 7-inch crew, HTC, is firing another tablet into the mix. The HTC Flyer‘s getting a successor and it’s heading to the UK.
There aren’t any concrete details on when, what and for how much, but it’s definitely coming to the UK, according to PC Advisor. We assume it’ll be another 7-incher packing Jelly Bean, but whether it’ll be a direct competitor to the Nexus 7, or whether it’d more likely end up competing against the Galaxy Note 2 with its stylus, we don’t know. Let’s just hope HTC’s learnt its lesson from the less-than-popular Flyer — launching at £600 it was sure to fall flat on its face. [PC Advisor via SlashGear]
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For me, the last Flyer was awful as HTC decided to release it with Android 2.3 with a horrible tablet version of Sense over the top, just as Honeycomb was being launched with it’s already good looking tablet interface. I wouldn’t be surprised if they ended up launching it on an older version of Android with a horrible skin again.
for me HTC have always had some of the nicest Product design around, so really looking forward to seeing what they come up with.
The only problem is that as the nexus is pretty much made at damn near as close as possible to making a loss, no other brand will be able to compete – it works fine for google as they make their money back through the software, but no other company can match that, so it almost begs the question… why bother? Should be interesting to see what they come out with though… and personally I love sense!
I honestly like the stylus idea, just make things easier
Nothing HTC produce is going to compete with the Nexus 7 unless it’s not more than about £160, or 10″ and not more than £200-ish. Then entire point of the Nexus 7 is the top-of-the-line full-Google-Android experience on fast, modern hardware. The only thing a competitor could do is stick a decent/better camera on the back, but I doubt anyone else is willing to take the hit on profits that Google is apparently, weathering.
That stylus looks like it belongs to Apple products!