*LATE CHRISTMAS PRESENT TO SELF ALARM*
Dixons has just taken the very nice HTC Flyer down to a literally bonkers price of £199, which is quite an amazing discount on the usual RRP of the fancy little tablet with the sensitive stylus. This non-3G model will arrive with Android 2.3 onboard, though, but the Android 3.2 update for the 3G model ought to be ready for the wi-fi model soon enough.
And the 3G model is down to £249 right now as well.
Amazing. Father Christmas has gone mad. He’s clearing out his warehouse like nobody’s business. See the above price with your own eyes over at Dixons.
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
The HTC One V is HTC’s third entry in its high-profile new HTC One range, offering a smaller 3.7″ display running on a single-core 1GHz processor. It is is very much the “affordable” option in HTC’s newest Android series, but…
The HTC One S is the piggy in the middle of HTC’s 2012 line-up, offering a 4.3″ AMOLED display inside a very slim and stylish aluminium chassis. The end result is a phone that’s very, very slim and stylish.
HTC’s new quad-core monster, the 4.7″ flagship for 2012 that introduces the Tegra 3 processor to mobile phones, updates HTC’s range to Android 4.0 and brings us the supposedly streamlined version 4.0 of HTC’s Sense user interface.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
Dom Finn
/ December 23, 2011This is indeed a marvellous price!!!
Tafkawac
/ December 23, 2011It’s a shame this will probably never see ICS. I really fancy one of these.
What’s the flash performance like? Anyone?
right_mr
/ December 25, 2011The last htc device I ran using a snapdragon soc was the htc desire HD which i had for 6 months from october 2010 to around april this year. Flash performance was decent. Given this cpu runs at 1.5ghz vs the 1ghz on the desire, I can say with confidence that the flash performance should be good if not great
Stephen
/ December 23, 2011Tempting..
I’d also like the price of the Sony S to come down a bit more too, i wish more companies would put IR into tablets. :(
hecatae
/ December 24, 2011if you go all the way through the checkout, dixons are taking a further 10% offf the price
right_mr
/ December 25, 2011thats right…i ordered myelf one yesterday for around gbp179. i think that is a great price. my wife will go ballistic though given i bought an asus eee transformer in april.. gulp…
Dave
/ December 24, 2011Just got one from Currys for the same price. Well worth the money!
right_mr
/ December 25, 2011i love some aspects of htc sense which to me are a cut above what samsung etc offer…my usual gripe is average screen quality and a lack of ram and storage… still i have missed the text reflow as seen only on the htc stock browser. yes I do like dolphin but i have to use the zoom onscreen button to get the text to reflow whereas the htc browser always does it automatically. Couple that with the ability to use “scenes” to have different home screen skins and configurations and you get probably the nicest software experience on android (ignoring ice cream sandwich ofcourse).
would I buy a kindle fire over an HTC flyer? No, I dont think so…couple that with the HTC Scribe stylus and this makes one amazing, if slightly underpowered tablet. Merry christmas everyone!!!!
Gerry
/ January 20, 2012“still i have missed the text reflow as seen only on the htc stock browser.” actually there is a hidden option in the settings for that in the SII browser settings, I was thinking the same thing!
Kohy - IT
/ December 27, 2011CZ friendly – http://freebit.cz/htc-predstavi-prvni-tablet-ktery-bezi-na-androidu-jmenu-je-se-flyer/
PJ
/ December 28, 2011I’ve ordered mine, but it’s still showing ‘expected’ stock take of the item will be the 26th Dec. Well it’s now the 28th Dec, called them up to find out if stock had been delivered… was told it hadn’t been and then was told they didn’t have any information on their computer as to when it was arriving (great help I know). Don’t know if I should cancel my order and try get it from elsewhere, or just hang in there and put my faith into Dixons.
Any suggestions? The price is fantastic, but with the limited number of Flyers out there at the minute, I don’t want to miss out altogether :
unknowm
/ December 29, 2011I wouldn’t put my faith in Dixons. I’ve been waiting for days and just received an email saying they made a stock error and cancelled my order. I’m absolutely livid because I cant seem to find it anywhere for that price anymore.