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Comment by eli_s | Hacker News Reader

Great looking product - they'll have a hard time out-marketing Apple though. This seems like a market where second place is as good as dead.

Good luck to them.

As a side note - there's at least a billion dollars to be made by the first company that develops a fingerprint/smudge free screen - every used iphone i've seen looks gross

Also 1080p on a screen that small is v.nice. The high DPI should make for a nice ebook reader.

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It'll play 1080p content, but not at 1080p (unless you're using HDMI) - the screen resolution is only 1024*600, which is lower than even 720p.

Oops I read '1080p Full HD video playback' as 'has a full HD screen' - wishful thinking maybe :)

The iPad/iPhone is frankly too expensive in the Indian market. The market is huge though. Their price point in India should be much lower than the iPad's and that should give them an advantage.

Internationally, that's a different story altogether.

I don't see how their price point can be lower since they are using commodity components. Their contribution is the software+hardware combo.

In fact they will probably never come even close to competing on price. Hardware is a tricky game and most is sold at below production cost e.g. consoles and also I imagine the iPod. This loss is recouped through software licensing or in Apple's case the app store. This probably wont be an option for these guys since they are building on an open platform.

But they do gain a substantial savings for not having to incur any licensing or development costs on the OS.

Yes, but if they are selling the hardware pretty close to cost they will not make much money.

The screen is 1024x600.

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