{"id":35120,"date":"2011-10-03T11:15:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T09:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=35120"},"modified":"2011-10-03T11:17:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T09:17:54","slug":"htc-flyer-price-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/35120-htc-flyer-price-drop.html","title":{"rendered":"HTC Flyer price drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the launch of the <a title=\"Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/356046-Amazon\">Amazon<\/a> Kindle Fire at a price point of $199 (R1,615.50), the <a title=\"HTC Corp\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/340335-HTC-Corp.\">HTC<\/a> Flyer saw its price tumble from $499.99 (R3,941.60) to $299.99 (R2,364.96) at online retailer Best Buy last week Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Flyer\u2019s specifications include a single core Qualcomm processor, <a title=\"Android Mobile Oerating System\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android<\/a> 2.3 Gingerbread, a 7-inch 1024 x 600 touch screen, 16GB built in storage and dual camera.\u00a0 They are similar to the Kindle Fire\u2019s specifications which include a 1024&#215;600 7-inch IP touch screen, dual core processor, and 8GB built-in storage.<\/p>\n<p>Best Buy took identical action with the <a title=\"BlackBerry\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342709-BlackBerry\">BlackBerry<\/a> PlayBook earlier in September when the price dropped from $499.99 (R3,941.60) to $299.99 (R2,364.96).<\/p>\n<p>The Amazon Kindle Fire is set to go on sale on November 15, and depending on popularity may spur price cuts across a host of other tablet PC devices.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13924_3-20114521-64\/htc-follows-blackberry-to-$299-tablet-bargain-bin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The HTC Flyer is the latest 7-inch tablet to see it\u2019s price tag fall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":25139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[723,5300,397,5302],"class_list":["post-35120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-kindle-fire","tag-android","tag-blackberry-blackberry-playbook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35122,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35120\/revisions\/35122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}