Large manufacturers lower prices for 7-inch tablets

The authoritative resource DigiTimes, referring to sources among major electronics manufacturers such as RIM, HTC, Lenovo, ViewSonic, indicates that Amazon’s release of its Kindle Fire tablet computer at a very competitive price of $ 199 forced other market players to seriously review their prices similar products.

In particular, the price of the RIM PlayBook 16 Gb tablet dropped from $ 499 to $ 199; HTC has revised the price of its Flyer to $ 299; Lenovo did not remain in debt, setting the cost of the A1 tablet at $ 199. Viewsonic's Viewbook 730 outperforms the Kindle Fire as well - priced at $ 169. With all this, some Chinese noname manufacturers lowered the price of their products to $ 75. It is noteworthy that these changes relate specifically to 7-inch tablets.

It is also alleged that large manufacturers are already working on the problem of developing a tablet computer for less than $ 199, thus offering in fact mass devices that are available to a very wide range of consumers.

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