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Originally Posted by wallcraft
This is the list price, and over time retailers will provide a discount. I would not be surprised to see a street price of $169, or less, by Christmas.
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still too much for me, comparatively.
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Originally Posted by rixte
Considering RobertB's said one of the reasons they couldn't go lower is the panel price of screens for 5 inches went up, I wouldn't expect Sony to be able to take such a dramatic loss.
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I dunno. panels may have gone up, but they are omitted the prices of sd card reader, if memory serves, they are not increasing the memory, but are reducing it (i don't think I'm wrong on that, but I very well could be)
They are not paying the extra for the epson controller, so they are saving money there too. A lot of the costs are being left off of the device. Surely they arent including R&D costs for
removal of a feature?
"We spent 20,000 downgrading the 505 to the 300, by removing many of the features for a basic unit, this cost must be made up in the price of the unit"
Egad, I hope this isn't the case.