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Rumours have once again surfaced regarding a possible super-budget Nexus tablet, with the usual supply chain sources claiming a simplified, low-spec Nexus tab could arrive in Q4 of 2012 for $99, or around £60.
The claim comes from serial rumour abuser DigiTimes, which says a much cheaper, single-core Nexus tablet designed to sell to the masses at a stupidly low price will be revealed by Google later this year.
But with hundreds and hundreds of Chinese hardware makers already flooding the Android tablet world with amazingly cheap £60 and £70 units, surely there’s no need for Google to dirty its Nexus brand by selling something that’d only perform significantly poorer than its current Nexus 7? [DigiTimes via Techradar]
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But with all the dodgy Chinese ones flooding the market, people don’t know if they can trust the hardware, the build of Android, the warranty or customer service
If its from Google, they know its a trusted product, and its cheap, so people like my mum who see a name they know and a low price will buy it
Make it Quad Core – 4GB Ram, 10inch 4K HD SuperAMOLED – 6.3mm thin, carbon fiber with gold plated buttons, 4 speakers, floats in mid air and is also a phone – then I’ll give you my £60 – £70.
Until then, Keep trucking.
Are you seeing planes? Is your name Tattoo? Because I swear to God, you’re living on Fantasy Island..
Thought I made it obvious I wasn’t being serious by saying it floats in mid air?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120770/quotes
Ahh, quoting something I’ve never heard of. Awesome lol
$99 will more likely translate to £80. The current models use an exchange rate of $1.25/£, as opposed to the real rate of $1.60/£
They use an appropriate exchange rate but include VAT in the UK price whilst in the US the sales tax is not included in the price due to state variations in the charges. End result is the same though – UK price appears higher.
CONVERSION RARRRGGGGHHHH. $99 will be £99 here. But still.
Should be more like £75-80 if you base it on current exchange rates and include VAT which, for some unknown reason, Giz still seem unable to do.
If you look at how prices transfer from America to England, it tends to be a 1:1 ratio, the best products to prove my point would be Apple, look on their US vs UK, it’s practically 1:1. Same with most big companies, including, annoyingly, software companies.
Google has already bucked this trend the $250 16GB nexus is £199 over here.
That is Apple – they will have their own reasons to screw brits out of money.
Amazon were another good one for screwing us on prices compared to the US prices, but even they seem to be getting better, and as DJ has said, Google’s $:£ mark-up was relatively small and well within the margin of their internal currency hedging.
Not on Amazon’s own products they don’t They do on other branded stuff, but a lot of that is down to the territorial licensing deals which they have no control over.
Kindle of old was a decent mark-up on the US version above and beyond a reasonable fx+VAT. Now they have pulled it closer to the US price.
Content is up to them and the rights owners which, as you say, is another matter entirely.
Fair enough, but since $100 converts to about £85 after taxes etc over here, I can’t see why they wouldn’t tap on £15 to make it even.
People keep spouting this bullshit for some reason.
http://store.apple.com/us
http://store.apple.com/uk
Just a couple of examples
iPod classic $250 or £199
Macbook Prp $1199 or £999
I like Apple…. It’s not bull, it’s just used to be true for everything, and now it’s just true for most.
Most? I see one thing on the 2 sites I linked and thats the apple TV.
Although aimed at kids, Toys r us already do a sub £60 tablet
http://www.toysrus.co.uk/Toys-R-Us/Technology-and-Gadgets/Tablet-PCs/Elonex-ETouch-7-WiFi-Tablet-PC-4GB(0088518)?cm_mmc=Feed-_-Google%20Base-_-N%2FA-_-Elonex%20ETouch%207%22%20Wi-Fi%20Tablet%20PC%204GB
Be interesting to see how the specs differ though
nexus 32gb 199
nexus 16gb 150
nexus 8gb 100
i reckon that will be more realistic
and getting android out to the masses for 99quid is christmas pressie money and getting the younger generation into android earlier is a asound business idea
You can already get a single core tablet for £60 (e.g. the LY-F2S at http://www.hardwareheroes.co.uk.) Apart from the speed (which is OK for most purposes) the main deficiency compared with the Nexus 7 is the screen. In other forums it has been suggested that screen rather than processor costs are the limiting factor to how low can you price tablets.
I kinda hope they don’t. Nexus is well established at the high end of the cheaper tablets and phones as well. I don’t feel they should dilute the brand by going for the low end as well
its a big ask to get a tab of the same spec as the nexus 7 for under £100 i must say, i dont think theres a chance itd be £60, but then they are doing a 32gb nexus 7 for £200 so maybe the 16gb will drop to £159 and the 8gb down to £100 but i cant see it getting much cheaper than that and retaining its full spec (but if they can do it then fantastic, everyone is getting tablets for xmas)