Wi-Fi HTC Flyer landing in Best Buy on May 22nd

By on May 19, 2011 at 7:00 PM
mobile May 19, 2011

Best Buy announced on Thursday that it will be the exclusive retailer of the Wi-Fi HTC Flyer when it lands in stores and online on May 22nd. The Flyer is a 7-inch Android tablet with a 1.5GHz single core processor, a 4,000 mAh battery, 1GB of RAM, 32GB of internal storage, HDMI-out, Bluetooth 3.0, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, a 5-megapixel camera, and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera for video chats. It was originally announced during Mobile World Congress in February, where we had a chance to get up close for a hands-on. Best Buy has not yet revealed how much the tablet will cost but with the 22nd three short days away, we won’t have long to wait to find out. Hit the jump for the full announcement.

Wi-Fi HTC Flyer Tablet Launches May 22 Exclusively at Best Buy

Best Buy today announced that the Wi-Fi only version of the HTC Flyerâ„¢ tablet launches on May 22. All Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile standalone stores, as well as BestBuy.com, will have the tablet exclusively at launch. The HTC Flyer is a fast, portable, light-weight tablet that integrates the immersive and highly intuitive HTC Senseâ„¢ experience and enables content including videos, music, games and more to be easily accessed and enjoyed. The addition of the HTC Flyer to our tablet lineup gives Best Buy further opportunity to help connect customers with the mobile technology that best meets their needs.

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  • Anonymous

    WTF. Is Apple the only company that can release a product with price and date of availability announced more than a few days in advance?

    • http://twitter.com/kenypowa Ken K.

      exactly! the white iPhone 4 arrived exactly 10 months after the initial announcement. Nothing went wrong with that release at all -)

    • Anonymous

       and right after Judgement Day on May 21st! Bids on if this is DOA or golden? lol

    • http://twitter.com/jj_hh1 J Hamburg

      Give the ppor guys a break. At least the Taiwanese and Koreans are good at copying Apple-Designs. I guess they will catch up with marketing skills soon enough.

  • Ribley

     more importantly wtf is with the headlines “Wood as a sweaty smoky sport.”

    • Cer

      Google it and you’ll find a NYT article about grilling over wood.

  • http://twitter.com/adamjayreid Adam Reid

     No price, so why did they feel the need to announce it!  After my experience with the Galaxy Tab WiFi, I don’t think I’d get a single core tablet agan.  But if the price is right, I may pull the trigger on this since there isn’t a 7 inch Honeycomb tab coming anytime soon.  But if this is above $400, just gonna get the 8.9 Gal Tab

  • http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

    My DROID XOOM 4G LTE is still perfect. So this is pointless.

  • Cer

    Remind me, but the Best Buy version of the Flyer doesn’t come with the stylus, right? And said stylus is $79.99, right? And said price is totally ridiculous?

  • Anonymous

    The only thing worth mentioning when talking about Android tabs is the price. We basically know the specs for android tabs, the only compelling reason at this point is price point and fixes to Honeycomb.

    • Cer

      Your comment disproves your point. You seem to think that the Flyer has Honeycomb. It does not.

      • Anonymous

         worse still.

  • Anonymous

    iPad killer.

    • http://twitter.com/WhyCantMyPhone Neal Elward

      At $300 or less, yes. At a ridiculous $500 plus $80 for the pen, absolutely not.

      • http://twitter.com/jj_hh1 J Hamburg

        At 300$: maybe
        With Monroid on it: sure not

  • Anonymous

    Why can’t more of these tablets be released with 3g/4g connectivity? I have been sticking to the iPad 3g since nothing released has had 3g our has been priced within reason (looking at you G-Slate).

    • Cornbread

      G slate is every bit the disaster as the Xoom. Honeycomb is a horror show. The ipad is the only tab that sells for good reason.

  • DerekF

    Most likely the price will be around what a 32GIG ipad will cost you.

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