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is 12 bucks for a 2gb Micro SD Delivered a good deal?

I h ope I'm not breaking a rule. I just want to share this deal with my brothers and sisters of xda.
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/hot-deals/819065/

Yes, $12 is a good deal! to bad I couldn't get that deal a year ago. I have since moved on to the 8gb Micro SD and find anything less than 4gb useless to me as I cant fit all the music and movies on it.
Thanks for sharing.

WOWZERS, I wish I was leet enough to get a 8gb. I find that I can't watch a ton of movies on the phone so I don't carry a lot of them, I can stream my music and movies via orbit and sirius, etc etc. So 2gb is enough. Now I will have a spare card.

I have (2) 1gb, (1) 2gb, (1) 4gb, and (1) 8gb Micro SD cards and I'm sure I'll get the next larger one that comes out just because I like making my Tilt happy. So I don't spoil myself, I spoil my Tilt...

4gig micro for 15 after rebate. 20 before
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211196&CMP=AFC-C8Junction

I my case, it was 42€ (66 USD or 33 GBP). Bought it in Austria, in Slovenia costs 60+€.

soon 16gb will be released

ChumleyEX said:
I h ope I'm not breaking a rule. I just want to share this deal with my brothers and sisters of xda.
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/hot-deals/819065/
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probably a fake

seems good if its not fake,can always try researching a bunch of estores and compare prices or use pricewatcher or pricegrabber,etc to find best price.if you arent worried if you could be spending a lil bit over what its worth then go for it

Funny thing about these cards.... In a couple months people will complain about those prices. lol
6GB here and it works great.

thats a good price. Make sure that card wasn't anwhere near the fires of Mordor in Frodos pocket or something. That's hella cheap though.

$8.99 for 2 gig
http://www.supermediastore.com/pqi-2gb-micro-sd-microsd-transflash-memory-card.html

get what you need, dont get what you need.prices will come down and capacities get larger and larger

Who Preordered Already?

I pre-ordered it during the keynote.
Bought the 16gb.
Can't wait till it ships.

Just ordered mine. 16GB and a cover, just a dollar over 300$ after tax and shipping. Sweet deal.

Im thinking about it. I mean its so sexy but idk there isnt' a external sd card so its gonna be 16gb max...

bought the 8gig one thats enough for me

need to sell my Tegra 2 tablet first, then will pre-order it.

Preordered the 8gb, love the cloud.. no need for massive internal storage
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Yeah, I should try to sell my Viewsonic GTablet and see what I can get for it.

I'd love to, but once again Google messed it up. Only very few countries can order it, the soon™ annoys me a lot there.

I did...
The specs aren't too much better than the Nook Tab I already have, but the "nexus" support from Google was a pretty big selling point...
My wife gets the Nook Tab, and she will be more than happy.
Win-Win!

i did... can't friggin wait =)

Ordered mine! Can't wait. I'm going to sell my Fire and Transformer Prime and use the 7 as my main device.
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I want to preorder waiting on the GF approve stamp lol.
Yea I'm stuck on whether I should get 16 or 8... I do have almost everything in the cloud.. not to mention there will be probably USBTG later on..
what do you guys think

carnagecjb said:
I did...
The specs aren't too much better than the Nook Tab I already have, but the "nexus" support from Google was a pretty big selling point...
My wife gets the Nook Tab, and she will be more than happy.
Win-Win!
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Except you know for 2x processor for the same price.

I ordered the 16GB version as well. The case certainly was tempting as it definitely compliments the device; but decided to pass on that for now. I'm a bit disappointed at the lack of a microSD slot and HDMI-out, but still think it is a great device at its price point.

Got a 16GB on order. Guess my A100 will be on fleabay soon.

fixyourtech said:
I pre-ordered it during the keynote.
Bought the 16gb.
Can't wait till it ships.
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I just preordered the 16GB with the case. I can not wait.
Does anyone know if Google Wallet is coming to this device?

Finally managed to get the site to work and have a 16GB pre-ordered.
Really looking forward to my first 7" tablet.
Jelly Bean looks really sweet.

Hoping it shows up on Amazon for no tax and free 2 day shipping. Probably will hold out on the case for now and wait till other options show up
depending on how much i like or dislike will determine if i part ways with my xoom finally.

I would if it was available here in austria ;( How can i get it?

I preordered the 8GB. My Kindle Fire does fine with 8GB and I can't justify the 25% price bump especially since I use cloud storage so much.

16GB costs $50?

Maybe this was discussed in another thread but I couldn't find it.
I know Google is said to be selling these at cost (at least the 8GB one), but does it really cost $50 to go from 8GB to 16GB?

1) They're not selling at cost (estimated profits are $15-$47 for the 8GB version)
2) It's very unlikely that the additional 8GB costs $50. This is something they call, among devices with no SD card option, "screwing you over".

I read that it cost Google $8-12 more for the 16gb

at $250, it's still a great deal for the hardware.

You know the difference in PRICE for iPad 16n 32GB? Ever complained !!!
Stop trolling..
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xperiax10.awesome said:
You know the difference in PRICE for iPad 16n 32GB? Ever complained !!!
Stop trolling..
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$100 (aka the same $6.25/extra GB that we're facing now).
I hope you're not seriously suggesting that we look to Apple pricing standards as something to be proud of.

Thanks to thebobp, raafaell and adiliyo for your thoughts.
xperiax10.awesome & Thador: My question was an honest one and I was hoping for serious responses.

I came from the Evo 3D forum expecting better ...but the retards will always be around. Nobody is trolling its just a simple question, if you can't answer it and want to dish out another answer, do it elsewhere
Different sources are claiming that there is either a very small profit or small loss on the 8GB, it'll depend from region i suspect and what the pricings have taken into account. If you're talking simply in terms of BOM, the 8GB costs $184 to make and their selling it for $199....profit you'd think, however factor in the $25 app credit along with other marketing and advertising costs and it does add up. VAT in the UK makes a difference too along with some sort of import duty to all the countries it will be sold in. At the end of the day it's all mixed in the books so we can never know the full truth.
Here's your link
http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/27820-nexus-7-costs-$184-to-build

It's stilla great deal, But I think it's kind of cheap not to include a SD card slot.

Here's a newer teardown cost appraisal: http://allthingsd.com/20120711/googles-nexus-7-costs-152-to-make-ihs-isuppli-teardown-finds/
Basically the 8GB version is the loss leader to get people interested and then they buy the 16GB version just in case. No different than any other retail operation.
Marketing is the study of taking the most money from the most people in the least amount of time.

thebobp said:
$100 (aka the same $6.25/extra GB that we're facing now).
I hope you're not seriously suggesting that we look to Apple pricing standards as something to be proud of.
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You're absolutely right. How DARE Google try to make any sort of profit at all, while still giving us by far the best 7" tablet we've seen yet?!

Plus, as has been reported, any actual hardware profit goes to ASUS not Google

thebobp said:
1) They're not selling at cost (estimated profits are $15-$47 for the 8GB version)
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It cost Google like $185 to make the 8gb model. With your logic that's 15 dollars profit per device (before shipping)... What about the price of packaging each device? What about the price of distribution to third party retailers? What about the price of marketing and advertisement? And that free $25 Play Store credit, and other freebies... it might be free to us but money for those items still comes from somewhere. They're selling these for a loss...

They are in business. Since when was it *NOT* okay to make a profit when you manufacture a product?
Whatever it costs for them to make, market, and ship internally, both products are well within a fair market value.

One other thing:
If the 16GB model were $208 ($8 being the presumed cost of the additional RAM), would anyone buy the 8GB model?
Not likely. And all the 8GB models produced would sit around in a warehouse collecting dust.

When I learned of the cost for the Nexus 7, I thought hell yeah, $200 for a nice tablet. I'm in. Then when I learned it was 8 gb with no sd card, I thought, "crap, I don't want to run out of room after I put a couple big games on it. Feel cramped and out-grown while the rest of the specs are still good." I have used an old, smaller sd card on a phone before and know the frustrations of running on limited space. Always having to scour the folders to delete anything extra. I didn't want that limitation, so I went with the 16gb even though a part of me was screaming, "Are you crazy! You are paying 25% more for the exact same thing with a little bit more space!"
Even now that I know we will be able to use a usb flash drive for expandable storage, I am happy I went with the 16gb just because I won't want a dongle on it all the time. In comparison to the 8gb version, the 16gb version is no where near as good of a price. That being said, it is still a good deal, if you compare it to everything else on the market except the 8gb nexus7. I think the extra $50 is going to be a big difference to me in not having to worry as much about space and I am glad I ponied up the extra.

Price seems ok, no complains..
All,
FYI, the build COST of iPads is just 320 dollars!!!
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First, for a genuine answer. No, it does not cost Asus $50 to add an extra 8 GB of flash storage.
$250 for the Nexus 7 is still a bargain either way.
For a more personal subjective answer. Asus/Google can charge what they want. You vote with your wallet, it's that simple.
So to all those people saying people are getting screwed over buying the 16 GB version.
Is Google forcing you to buy the 16 GB at gun point? No.
Will you die of hunger if you don't buy the 16 GB version? No.
Does the 8 GB version have a time bomb that explodes, punishing you for not buying the 16 GB version? No.
Will god kill a kitten for every person that pays for the 16 GB version? No.
Like I said above. You are given a choice. You vote with your wallet. It really is that simple.
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SwervFusion said:
They are in business. Since when was it *NOT* okay to make a profit when you manufacture a product?
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I'm not sure why you quoted me. I made no comments suggesting it's not okay to make a profit!
SwervFusion said:
Whatever it costs for them to make, market, and ship internally, both products are well within a fair market value.
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I agree with you. I think the tablets are a very good value. I was just asking a simple and honest question.

I do feel that google or Asus did kind of gouge my eyes out with the price jump by bit including the the microsd. Even with everyone saying that they have to make a profit, which I agree, I still think that it was unnecessary for the price of the 16gb model and still without a microSD slot.

Google’s Nexus 7 stops orders due to demand

Source: http://www.slashgear.com/googles-nexus-7-stops-orders-due-to-demand-22239712/
Google has decided to stop taking orders from its online store, assumedly because it has such a huge backlog it doesn’t even know when it will be able to fulfill new customer purchases. The 16 GB $249 tablet had been showing up as being delayed for one to two weeks. As of now, though, it’s impossible to place an order. The 8 GB model, at $199, is still available for orders.
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Just FYI

Welcome to about 4 days ago, the 16gb stopped being available for order around 4 wednesday of last wk.

ooops, the article seemed new, feel free to delete post

The 16GB been out of stock since last week..

Well... good that the are stopping orders for now, they need to focus on getting the orders they already have shipped out. But bad that the 16GB may be delayed 1-2 weeks... I think that $300 went missing from my credit card as I haven't spent that much on it since I last made a payment but I won't know until layer monday when my bank updates the transactions online... hoping to see a charge for my 16GB Nexus 7 on there.
I'm not particularly mad at Google... just mildly annoyed. and I hope this was a good learning experience for them.

I think the 8gb model is good enough anyway. The transformers movie is streamed anyway by default. Unless you plan on loading tons f apps it should be fine for most.
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All I'm gonna say is someone did a terrible job at forecasting for the 16gb.

funkyboy1281 said:
All I'm gonna say is someone did a terrible job at forecasting for the 16gb.
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What crystal ball are you looking at?
Markets are a fickle thing... hard to really know what is going to be a big hit and what wont be. It would appear, that the 16gb is outselling the 8gb, but who really knows real numbers are. Maybe they made a ton more of the 8gb units thinking they would sell better.
Was the Kindle Fire more popular because it was under $200 or because it was released first before the Nook tablet which was $249 or is it because it was Amazon with decent content etc...
Getting stuck with a ton of product that didn't catch on can be expensive. and playing catchup a hot product is a good position for a company to be in if they can ramp up fast enough. Sometimes constraints of available product also promote higher demand under the false sense that they are more popular than they really are. Who knows....

funkyboy1281 said:
All I'm gonna say is someone did a terrible job at forecasting for the 16gb.
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Or someone did a great job choking off the supply of 16GB units to force impatient buyers to the 8GB, making them more likely to buy into Google's cloud services.
"Supply crises" are much more often planned than not. Not saying they won't get the 16GB back on the market quickly, because they will. But how many buyers in the meantime will settle for 8GB and a Google Drive subscription?

polarimetric said:
Or someone did a great job choking off the supply of 16GB units to force impatient buyers to the 8GB, making them more likely to buy into Google's cloud services.
"Supply crises" are much more often planned than not. Not saying they won't get the 16GB back on the market quickly, because they will. But how many buyers in the meantime will settle for 8GB and a Google Drive subscription?
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That depends....Are people going to want to buy these anyways after reading all these articles mentioning all these defects. No one knows for sure if it's just 8gb or 16gb or both. Sure they got a lot of money up front but it doesn't help when you constantly have to replace them and with that kind of launch are people really going to take that risk right now. If not and they want to wait a couple months some other tablet could come out around the same price range or just a better tablet in general. You're talking lost profits at that point. Forecasting does come into it at some point but this launch didn't help at all

hmm. So they won't ship it, or refund it. Great
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Nexus 7 8 GB version now?

Trying to find any news on the 8 gig Nexus 7 pricing. Staples still has it listed as 199. Anyone know or have confirmation if the price has dropped?

I believe that it's been discontinued, but we should be able to find remaining stock -- heavily marked down -- in stores and online. The 8gb version does not appear on Play.Google.com or on Walmart.com. I would think that the 8gb versions, while they last, should be marked about $150.00, but...

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I believe that it's been discontinued, but we should be able to find remaining stock -- heavily marked down -- in stores and online. The 8gb version does not appear on Play.Google.com or on Walmart.com. I would think that the 8gb versions, while they last, should be marked about $150.00, but...
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I was looking for the same thing hopping to get a bargain 8G version
If anyone knows any retails in the UK please post some links
Thanks

I don't think the 8GB version was sold in retail stores.

RichardLSX said:
I don't think the 8GB version was sold in retail stores.
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It is/was. Staples near me still has some in stock but they are 199.99

I sold my 8GB yesterday for $175. Barely ahead of today's announcements. I paid $150 with magnetic case for it on Craig's List. Putting it aside for the Nexus 10. N7 was too small for my eyesight to read comfortably. So I guess my suggestion would be to also check out alternate sources as I did.

It originally wasn't supposed to be sold in stores because going the retail route on the 8gb would end up costing them money since the unit was sold so cheap. The 8gb started showing up when the 16gb models couldn't stay stocked, which was a last ditch effort from Google/Asus to keep the supply flowing.
So there ARE 8gb models in the wild and ARE discontinued. I would think that Staples and a select other few would have them discounted. Walmart only had 16gb when I went there last. Craigslist and other 2nd hand sites are likely to be experiencing a rush of 8gb and 16gb models because they are trading for the 32gb.

8GB should be 150$

I'm sad that the 8GB model has been discontinued.. I just bought it the first of this month back when none of this news wasn't around..
I don't wanna go through the process of selling this and getting the 16gb.
:'(
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Lookin to buy my wife an 8gig now as well... id check slickdeals periodically too, they are known for finding great prices on discontinued stock
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Pretty much an empty channel
Every place I checked was sold out of the 8GB units over a month ago, and it was even difficult to track down unopened 16GB models. Everyone in the distribution chain knew about the product shuffling.
The ones you are likely to find now are customer returns, and there will be few that fall within the common 14 or 30 day return window.

Have the screen separation issues been completely resolved? I have a launch 8gb that I want to get replaced. I'm not trying to get a 16gb out of this and I'm hoping if I go through the process now, they won't give me hassle, accusing me of trying to upgrade.

just actually posted my Nex 7 8gb on Craigslist yesterday. we don't use it since we have the ipad.
listing at $150 but taking $125 if i get it. Hate losing $75 so quickly, but that's tech. look on craigslist.

I doubt they'll sell it cheaper for now. Probably keep it for 199 until supplies settle down and when they only have a few, then probably sell them off on clearance.
People are still idiots with this stuff. If they advertise it for 199 people will come in and buy the 8gb probably without looking. Kinda dishonest but companies always do this crap.
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I got an 8GB a while back. I don't really need much more storage than that. The music goes on the phone and I hardly keep big games on it.

As a staples employee I can tell you we have stopped selling the 8Gb model. A week before the price drop it went inactive for us.
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