{"id":12848,"date":"2011-04-06T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/2011\/04\/06\/samsung-galaxy-tab-price-drop-now-199-from-sprint-verizon-wireless\/"},"modified":"2011-04-06T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T16:49:00","slug":"samsung-galaxy-tab-price-drop-now-199-from-sprint-verizon-wireless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=12848","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Galaxy Tab Price Drop; Now $199 from Sprint, Verizon Wireless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 4px 10px 5px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Samsung Galaxy Tab\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Samsung Galaxy Tab\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/galaxytab_pain.jpg\" width=\"206\" height=\"319\" \/>Sprint and Verizon Wireless have each lowered the price of their respective Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablets to $199 with a two-year service contract.&#160; This easily makes the Galaxy Tab the best bargain mainstream tablet in the U.S. today at $400 less than the Motorola XOOM \u2013 though the Galaxy Tab does run Android 2.2 rather than 3.0.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>The new pricing hasn\u2019t shown up at third-party retailers yet, but you can grab this deal at Sprint and Verizon Wireless retail stores, and via their web stores, today.<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: When I <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/reviews\/android\/tablets\/galaxy_tab_2010.htm\"><em>reviewed the Galaxy Tab<\/em><\/a><em> earlier this year, I couldn\u2019t recommend the tablet at $399 or $499, but at less than $200 it\u2019s not a bad option if you don\u2019t want to plunk down $599 for a XOOM or $629 for a 3G iPad 2.&#160; <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sprint and Verizon Wireless have each lowered the price of their respective Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablets to $199 with a two-year service contract.&#160; This easily makes the Galaxy Tab the best bargain mainstream tablet in the U.S. today at $400 less than the Motorola XOOM \u2013 though the Galaxy Tab does run Android 2.2 [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=12848\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}