HTC Flyer on sale for $200 at Buy.com - Android News

HTC Flyer on sale for $200 at Buy.com


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HTC Flyer, one of the first in its class to run on Gingerbread, now gets an upgrade to Honeycomb and is refurbished to move down the price band to sell at $199.99 at Buy.com … like the Amazon Kindle Fire, HP Touch Pad and others, before it.

The HTC Flyer may be last year’s model, running on a single-core 1.5GHz processor with a 7-inch display, but we’re sure a few of you might be a little intrigued by the Android tablet if we said you could pick one up today for less than $200.

We’ve seen these things happen particularly often in the UK, where HTC’s first tablet went for as low as £199.

Yet if you’re in the US and don’t mind purchasing a refurbished product, this offer is way better. See, Buy.com now sells refurb HTC Flyer units for just $199.99. That’s mind-bogglingly cheap for a tablet made by one of the ‘big’ mobile device makers. And it comes with a 45-day return policy and 90-day manufacturer warranty to ease your pain of buying refurbished. Oh, and shipping is free.

Weighing in at 14.82 oz, with 1GB of RAM, WiFI, microSD card slot and Bluetooth version 3.0 it is a truly tempting deal. Add to it a 3-month warranty period and you will definitely see great Sense in buying it rather than waiting for the soon to be released next version HTC Vertex.
 
The HTC Vertex is expected to do some very brisk selling with top of the class NVIDIA quad core CPU and some great new features. However, if you are looking at the price-points, it will again sell at close to twice the price of HTC Flyer.

The HTC Flyer will arrive at your doorstep running Android 2.3 Gingerbread with a tablet-optimized version of Sense UI atop. That said, the update to Android Honeycomb may be waiting for you when you first power the tablet up. And even if it doesn’t, HTC’s Sense UI does a little bit to alleviate the pains of using an operating system designed for phones on a tablet.

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