Following up, Best Buy and HTC have jointly announced that the retailer will be the exclusive carrier for the Wi-Fi version of the HTC Flyer Android tablet. The tablet is nearly identical to the Sprint version announced as the EVO View 4G, but lacks cellular radios.
Specifications are identical with a 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 7 inch 1024×600 capacitive display, 1.3 megapixel front facing camera for video calls, Android 2.2 with a future update to Honeycomb planned, 32GB internal memory with microSDHC slot and 5.0 megapixel camera with HD video capture. Like the EVO View 4G, the Flyer will also support HTC’s Scribe stylus-based input method. Pricing and availability will be revealed at al later date.
Retail exclusives always do poorly. You got to have eretailers like amazon and others in the mix too.
Seems like HTC isn’t pushing hard enough on the marketing front.
This tablet has pretty weak specs anyway. If it costs anymore than $150-$200 it won’t sell too many.
I’d guess $499. Slotting below iPad 2 and Xoom. Especially since it doesn’t have Honeycomb, and may never have it, $499 will give them room to drop it down in price as the holidays approach, and slot in a more powerful tablet for Christmas.