By The original HTC Flyer was introduced to the world with some incredibly bad timing. It wasn’t a bad device, but with some Honeycomb-infused beasts on the horizon its Gingerbread base put a lot of people off from buying it.
It seems they could be ready to introduce a true sequel to the device as Phone Arena is reporting that they’re readying a new 7 inch tablet. It will supposedly sport an HD display and will be powered by Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, a Qualcomm S4 processor. It’ll also have a 3 megapixel on the back, a 1 megapixel on the front, and it’s poised to be as thin as a screw.
HTC faces stiff competition from both Amazon and Google, both of which have attacked the tablet space with 7 inch variants of their own starting at $200. HTC will need to price this thing aggressively if they want any chance.
Otherwise, their knack for advertising is going t have to come in mighty handy to convince anyone that they should go with them instead of these other two major players. Would you give HTC another shot for $200.
Without a second thought I would buy this.
I doubt HTC could come in at this price point. Before Samsung, they seemed pretty adept at selling their devices to carriers. I don’t think they are set up for direct to consumer. Their business simply isn’t run this way. Their device will probably compete on connectivity that the other tablets lack.
I’d consider any tablet with a stylus (not a dumb capacitive). I still don’t know what I’d do with a tablet without one that I can’t do on a laptop.
you mean 7inch FAILURE 2?
i would pay $50 more for the Nexus 7 just for a wacom digitizer
It also needs stylus apps. Samsung has a better ecosystem with both the Note and the Note Tab
Hmm… I’d give it a second chance… But it needs killer specs, not just the dual-core S4, and it has to be under $300 for me to consider owning one.. With the original Flyer being a major fail, HTC better prove themselves this time
i was one of the morons who bought a flyer…once they confirmed no ICS on the device,i got rid of all my HTC products and will never purchase one again
They used to be great with updates, once upon a time. There’s a reason xda developers was named after HTC models.
i would pay $50 more for the Nexus 7 just for a wacom digitizer....iphone5Amazing.blogspot.com
Chances are it will have HTC Sense. Which since ICS has not been implemented as well as Sense had been on gingerbread,
So for that reason “I’m out”
i find ics sense to be much better than gingerbread sense
What I should have said was that I found Sense on gingerbread to have been an enhancement to the UI, but IMO none of the UI’s currently available (Sense, Touchwiz) offer any improvement to Ice Cream Sandwich/Jelly Bean, but detract from it’s functionality.
Ah I see
Watching a little bit too much Shark Tank, are we?
HTC needs to out a 10″, then people will flock.
no they won’t. why? because its fugly. it was shown in a HTC video a little while ago, go pack a few pages on phandroid, you’ll find the article.
“p” and “b” are no where near each other. How’d you make that mistake?
was typing that on my tablet. must’a been autocorrect
Since they lied and never updated their Flyer OS to ICS (after they promised to publicly), no way these jokers are ever seeing another dime from me.
10 inch tablets please. More of them.
I do like HTC products and will not leave them anytime soon, unless the next Nexus blows my mind. One thing is for sure, HTC needs to stop, step back, take a break, and think how they can add to the android OS before they make another tablet. Again, I love HTC, but will not buy a table from them.
For $200-$250 I’d pick up a Flyer 2 if it packs the stylus in along with it as well as a screen of at least 1280×800 resolution. (No more 1024×600 on 7 inch, please)
Let’s hope it’s not priced like the original Flyer. Also, HTC is digging themselves a grave with HTC Sense, which performs like a dog.
I’ve seen some pretty thick screws. And I’ve also seen some tiny ant size screws. Can’t get a image on this size. =.[