WSJ: Samsung Galaxy Tab to cost between $200 and $400

By on Sep 6, 2010 at 7:41 AM
General September 6, 2010

Now this is more like it! The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Samsung product executive, Hankil Yoon, informed them that the Galaxy Tab tablet would retail for somewhere between $200 and $400 in the United States. Yoon did say that the final price of the device would vary depending on carrier subsidies; hopefully the two to four hundred dollar figure is unsubsidized. Sammy is predicting to ship over 10 million Tab’s next year and would like to grab at least ten percent of the tablet market share.  The report is good news, as earlier rumors had the Galaxy Tab selling in Germany for upwards of $1,000 for the 32 GB model. Mr. Yoon also said that his company is in talks with “multiple U.S. carriers.”

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  • Mike

    I’d probably cop one of these if it’s under $400…but not if I need a data package.

  • Jarrett

    $200-$400, with a 2-year contract. Off contraxt? Who knows.

  • namelesstwo

    Whatever the carrier is gonna be for this device, they’ll have to convince new customers who don’t own a smartphone, to cough up 2 to 4 bills for 3 more inches of screen real estate, with a 30 bucks data plan and a 2 year commitment. That sounds like magic to me.

    Those who already own an Android device, ain’t gonna go for that shit.

    If Samsung thinks they’re gonna sell tons of this tablet, they need to see a doctor.

  • Chris

    The same argument that the iPad is a big iPhone applies here as well. Android and IOS are for a cell phone. Not a “computer” that costs an arm and a leg in addition to the arm and leg we pay for our cell phones and data plans.

    This is stupid IMHO.

    Get me a damn tablet with a real OS like Win7 or Mac OS already. Then I’m interested.

  • Goofan (aka Apple Hater)

    You are a devil worshiper! Android and as an extension Google are the Lord! You will burn in hell along with all the other Apple Fanboys.

  • Jim

    I’m sure the Tab is a nice enough device, but sorry, I’m not paying for yet another separate data plan. Not. Gonna. Happen.

    Sell a wifi-only version or ‘no-buy’ for me.

    Tablets can have cell service, but they don’t *need* it. You won’t be making calls on them, you’re just using the data, and most often in wifi enabled areas, like your home, so wifi only tablets are the way to go.

  • phil dough

    I don’t quite understand the fuss. If I pick one of these up because it’s subbed price is good, I would drop my data plan from my smartphone and get a quick messaging phone with just texting instead. That way I wouldn’t be paying twice for data and I wouldn’t need a smartphone anymore. The Galaxy Tab is not a smartphone supplement like so many think. It is a smartphone replacement.

    • doug

      Back in the day when Palm was something (and then my Zaurus) and Convergence foretold of the day when our cellphones and pdas would merge, I thought I wanted to keep two separate devices. I thought then that two devices would let me be away from the phone but have my stuff or just have a smaller, “cheaper” phone…that lasted about a year. At the end of the day, a single über-device is pocketable and enough. I don’t think you’d like going to two devices like that if convenient connectivity matters to you at all.

    • Adam

      I would be surprised if you could just drop the data plan for your smart phone, I’m on the big Ver and I know you have to have a data plan and I really don’t think ATT would let you drop the plan there either..

      No my friend it seems you need a new phone and data plan for this tablet along with whatever you already have with your phone, seems a bit steep, now you are talking about 1000s of dollars for this .. no thank you.

  • JayK

    It would be great if that’s unsubsidized price, but I don’t buy that at all, considering that this is basically a Galaxy S smartphone with a 7 inch screen. It goes against all common sense to think that a 7 inch smartphone would be less than half the price (at $200 retail) of a 4 inch smartphone with otherwise the same spec. If that were the case, there would be little reason to get Galaxy S instead of this (esp. since this is the device that you buy “instead of” your typical smartphone, rather than “in addition to” one), and Samsung would end up making much less money.

  • wtf

    Tablets are netbooks without the same hdd space and notebooks cost about $300 so tablets with a cell phone OS should cost $200 tops seeing how it on the ones with SD card slots top out with 96 gb and netbooks run 160 gb .and their really netbooks without the physical keyboards, buy as long as people think these tablets are just so great and they pay these high prices to Apple ($899 for 64 gb w/3g) then the rest of the manufacturers will charge the same prices

    • JayK

      I’m sure that Apple gets good margin on iPads and the prices will fall over time, but $200 for these kinds of devices are unrealistic for now. That won’t even cover the cost of components.

  • Adam

    Oh and I forgot … “OMG LOOK AT THE BEZEL!!!!!!” rofl sorry couldn’t resist, that was the cry when the iPad was introduced :( LOL

  • Dog

    Subsidized… Phones are 400+ unsub, why would a tab be magically cheaper.

  • KT

    LOL, that’s funny. Apple sucks though

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