Most of the cost of these things is the e-ink screen. Assuming that enough of the stuff gets made and sold that the cost of development is recovered, and economies of scale kick in, then, yeah, I see the prices of even the front-line devices dropping a lot closer to the $200 mark (perhaps lower if it gets
really cheap to make). The ones below $200 will be the down-revved models (previous generation, I mean), but they'll be at least as good as what we have now.
In any case, we're talking several years.
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Originally Posted by athlonkmf
Take a look at PDAs. I paid big bucks for my PDA back then, but now the cheapest model is still around 250 dollar. Sure, you'll get my old PDA for like 5 bucks at ebay or something, but you won't get it in a store.
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I paid ~$430 for my Pilot 5000 back in March of '96, so I konw what you're saying.
However, I think you may be forgetting the
Palm E2 (MSPR $199) and
Z22 (MSRP $99). They're both a good deal more capable than my venerable Pilot 5000 was.
