Hot on the heels of the 7-inch Springboard, T-Mobile is adding yet another tiny tablet to its lineup of connected devices. The new Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus will be available with T-Mobile “4g” bands, starting on November 16th, the same day as the Springboard. Prices start at $249.99 for a subsidized tablet on a two-year data contract, minus a $50 mail-in rebate. Contract-free pricing has not been announced yet.
As a 7-inch Honeycomb tablet, the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus will compete directly with the Huawei-made Springboard on T-Mobile. In most specs they’re roughly equal, including a 1.2Ghz dual-core processor and 16GB of internal memory. The Springboard has the Samsung tablet beat on display, however, since its 7-inch screen is 1280 x 800 to the Tab’s 1024 x 600. While the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus gets Samsung’s TouchWiz UI over Android 3.2, the Springboard runs a stock version of Honeycomb… for the most part. Be sure to read our review for the details.
Both tablets come with a bit of a catch as far as the pricing goes: in addition to $50 rebates and data packages starting at $30, T-Mobile is counting the $249.99 price for the Galaxy Tab and $179.99 price for the Springboard as “down-payments.” Customers will be charged another $10 every month for 20 months to pay for the rest of the tablet over a two-year contract. That brings the total price for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus to almost more than $500 over a two-year period, not counting data fees – the 16GB Wifi version, for comparison, is going for $399.
Youre incorrect on a couple of points here and didnt clarify where clarification is due, so just to clear this up –
A)the service starts at $20 a month (for the 2gig plan) for existing t mobile customers (exosting customers get a $10 discount per month on mobile broadband plans).
B)i would have to conduct reseach to be sure of this so i might be slightly inacurate, but the combined cost between the equipment installment ($10 a month) and service charges (starting at $20 a month, = service starting at $30 a month total) is very reasonable when compared to the competition, so i dont understand why the author of this article even bothered being so negative about the pricing.
will this device charge while it is turned on? my 1st gen galaxy tab will only charge while its off