Want an Asus Eee Pad Slider? Watch that price!

Stephen Withers
Monday, 10 October 2011 14:21

Your IT - Mobility

An earlier generation of convertible tablets had their fans but failed to win widespread favour. Asus hopes it Eee Pad Slider will prove popular, but the pricing practices of the three Australian retailers could cause confusion.

 

The Asus Eee Pad Slider is an Nvidia Tegra 2 based tablet with a slide-out keyboard for those who aren't comfortable with onscreen soft keyboards.

 

Other features include Android 3.1 Honeycomb, Polaris Office 3.0, a 10.1in IPS display with a wide viewing angle, dual cameras, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

Recommended retail prices are $649 for the 16GB model and $749 for 32GB. But pricing is all over the place at Asus' three retail partners. Harvey Norman is listing the 32GB version at $687, while Bing Lee quotes the RRP price of both models but notes they are "negotiable".

JB Hi-Fi - which has a reputation for being one of the cheapest of the national bricks-and-mortar consumer electronics chains - offers the 16GB version for $694 (that's either a typo or $45 more than RRP) and the 32G version for $787 ($38 above RRP) but with "free delivery" in both cases.