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It turns out that the HTC Flyer pen will be sold separately for $79.99 and that one will not be included with the tablet. An HTC rep told DroidLife- “I understand you would like confirmation if the Digital Stylus would be coming with the Flyer. The Digital Stylus will be sold separately. We currently do not have any pricing information on how much the Digital Stylus would be.”

Best Buy is listing the HTC Flyer stylus for $79.99! liliputing has the details and it isn’t clear at this stage if one will come with the tablet (surely it will), but even so- how many times did you lose styluses during those heady PDA days?

“It’s possible that what we’re looking at is the price of a spare pen, but I have yet to see any confirmation that a pen will come with the HTC Flyer. All we know is that the tablet has an active digitizer and can support either pen or finger input.

The HTC Flyer wouldn’t be the first Android tablet to be largely defined by an optional accessory that isn’t included in the base price. The Asus Eee Pad Transformer is notable largely because the Android tablet has an optional keyboard docking station which lets you use the device like a notebook computer — but the keyboard dock adds $150 to the base price of the $400 tablet.”

The LG Optimus Pad has appeared at Carphone Warehouse and sounds mightily impressive from the specs; 3D video recording, HD playback, dual core processors, HD playback.

It’s £799. No thanks.

I spent 30 minutes with the XOOM at the weekend and quite liked it. It did most things very well and looked like a competitor to the iPad. And then I looked at the price.

It seems that others agree because Trip Chowdry from Global Equities is estimating that Motorola has shifted just 120,000 XOOM’s at best and only 25,000 at worst. Ouch…

“Global Equities analyst Trip Chowdry estimates that Motorola Mobility has manufactured between 500,000 and 800,000 Xooms, but has sold only 5 to 15 percent of them.”

Sony has announced the S1 and S2 Android Honeycomb tablets and at first glance they look very impressive, particularly the S2 dual-screen version. Here’s a little bit of the very long press release-

Sony Corporation (“Sony”), announces “Sony Tablet” that delivers the perfect combination of hardware, content and network with seamless usability for a high-quality, engaging entertainment experience. Based on decades of engineering heritage, Sony is developing two tablets with unprecedented design, including S1 (codename) which is optimized for rich media entertainment and S2 (codename) which is ideal for mobile communication and entertainment. “Sony Tablet” will become available in the global market starting in fall 2011.

“Sony Tablet” is equipped with the latest Android 3.0 which is designed for devices with larger screen sizes, particularly tablets. Both tablets are WiFi and WAN (3G/4G) compatible and users can not only browse the internet or check e-mail but they can also smoothly access digital content including videos, games and books through Sony’s premium network services and more, on-the-go at any time.

S1 has a 9.4-inch display for enjoying the web and rich content on a large screen. Its off-center of gravity design realizes stability and ease of grip as well as a sense of stability and lightness, offering comfortable use for hours.

S2 has two 5.5-inch displays that can be folded for easy portability. In contrast to existing tablets, its unprecedented dual screen presentation and usability allows its displays to be combined and used as a large screen or for different functions such as playing video on one screen while showing control buttons on the other.

“‘Sony Tablet’ delivers an entertainment experience where users can enjoy cloud-based services on-the-go at any time. We’re aiming to create a new lifestyle by integrating consumer hardware, including ‘Sony Tablet’ with content and network,” said Kunimasa Suzuki, Corporate Executive, SVP, and Deputy President of Consumer Products & Services Group.

“Android 3.0 is a new version of the Android platform with a new holographic user interface that is designed from the ground up for devices with larger screen sizes, particularly tablets. I’m excited about “Sony Tablet” as it will further spur the development of applications and network offerings which users are looking for.” said Andy Rubin, Senior Vice President, Mobile, Google Inc.

HTC has announced the HTC Flyer which is a 7″ Android tablet powered by a 1.5GHz processor. HSPA+, Flash 10, HTML5 and many other features are included, but two stand out above the rest. HTC Watch will allow you to stream on-demand HD movies from ‘major’ studios and HTC Scribe may just bring natural note taking by way of a capacitive stylus and synchronisation is initially available via EverNote.

And then there is OnLive which will let you stream popular games via a Broadband connection. It all looks pretty good to me and will be available in the 2nd quarter of 2011. Of course the main specification, the price, is still unknown so we will have to wait a littlt to judge the full package. Thanks to Jah.

gigaon has published a review of the Dell Streak 7 and it appears to do well overall. However, the screen could be better- “The key issue is the display. While a 7-inch tablet enables a greater level of mobility — the key reason I dumped the larger iPad for my Galaxy Tab — Dell chose a screen with 800×480 resolution for the Streak 7. As a result, the graphical benefits of the Nvidia chip can’t be seen because games are more blocky and less detailed than they could be, as shown in the image gallery below.”

“I’m also unsure of a few other decisions Dell made when it comes to the hardware of the Streak 7. The battery capacity is only 2780 mAh as compared to the Galaxy Tab’s 4000 mAh unit. A true battery test requires more testing time, so I’ll revisit this aspect, but the Streak 7 seems to gulp power. Using it in limited fashion, I’ve seen the battery indicator drop by 10 percent in as little as 30 minutes, for example. Gone too is a dedicated search button on the bezel. And although the device is advertised to record 1080p video, I only see an option for 720p. Testing it yielded a sub-par video, which is disappointing since the Tegra chip is capable of so much more.”