ViewSonic ViewPad 7 hits Amazon for $120 over MSRP

By on Nov 16, 2010 at 11:21 AM
Retail November 16, 2010

In a peculiar turn of events, Amazon has made ViewSonic’s upcoming ViewPad 7 tablet available for pre-order. No, that’s not the peculiar part. Amazon — an online retailer known for retail prices so low that countless brick and mortar retailers have been forced out of business — is charging $120 over MSRP for the upcoming Android tablet. ViewSonic took the wraps off its ViewPad 7 tablet earlier this month and when it did, pricing was set at $479. $479 is already steep for the tiny Android 2.2-powered tablet, and Amazon currently has it listed at $599. A 7-inch touchscreen display, cellular data connectivity with support for voice calling, a 3-megapixel rear camera, a 0.3-megapixel front camera for video chat, 512MB of RAM, microSDHC support (up to 32GB) and up to 10 hours of battery life all sound great, but definitely not great enough to warrant $120 above retail. The ViewSonic ViewPad 7 is set to launch some time before the end of the year.

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  • Donny

    Attack of the clones

  • TheNewReign

    Come on! Can someone please just release the leap frog product already? Quit trying to accomplish something Apple did a year ago. Just give us the next thing already.

    When did originality lose all meaning on this planet?

    At least they did one thing, they shipped the product and gave us a price. I hope RIM is taking notes.

  • Dino

    a 0.3-megapixel??? Type O?

    • http://phone-central.com/ Bejustdoit

      front camera, my friend, same as VGA cam

  • Anonymous

    good luck… i can wait
    $199? sure

  • Neoprimal

    The price isn’t terrible for the form factor or the guts per se.
    It is terrible for the CPU it’s running. MSM7227 running at 600Mhz…why?! why??!!
    This for contrast, is the same CPU the mytouch 3G slide and HTC Aria and Legend are rocking…phones that were released in March-June of this year and have been thusly eclipsed by what’s out right now.

    At this point in the game it is curious to ship these things with anything less than what current smartphones are offering on the market, right now that’s the MSM8255 (1GHZ, 2nd gen), QSD8250 (1GHZ, 1st gen), OMAP 3640/20 (1Ghz) or at the very least MSM7230 (800Mhz, 2nd gen) processor. I could understand it if they released at a pricepoint of $250 and under, but $400+? I think not.

  • http://twitter.com/designbyrono rono

    The high price is probably a typo.
    I checked Amazon and didn’t see a price listed.

  • SanityKills

    They can keep pushing out all of these 7″ phones that don’t make calls and charging double what my netbook costs for less productivity all they want but I’m not buying any of these tablets for over $300. The iPad is too small. These are waaayyy too small.

    I’m starting to lose interest in the form factor anyway seeing all these carbon copy ideas and business models failing miserably.

  • zps

    when is someone going to put native storage in one of these tablets of 128 gb or greater? 32 on a micro SDHC is not going to cut it.

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