Prices of Sony Tablet slashed by $100

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Prices of Sony Tablet slashed by $100

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Sony is knocking $100 off the price of its Tablet S to kick off the new year.

02 January,2012 05:13 am

The Android-powered tablets launched in September, but the holidays are now behind us and Sony is probably looking to make its new tech a little more attractive to shoppers in the new year.Note that the price drop is also in effect at Newegg.com. The online electronics retailer was originally running a New Year’s Day promotion that bundled a 16 GB Tablet S with 1TB GoFlex hard drive for $449.99. The price for that same bundle now sits at $399.99.The Tablet S sports a 9.4-inch screen and runs on Honeycomb. It’s packing a Tegra 2 CPU and 1GB of memory, plus a 5.0 MP rear camera and a 0.3 MP in the front. Not a bad tablet to have according to reviews so far, but early adopters have got to be a little rankled over such a quick turnaround on the price.Then again, Sony dropped the price ‘temporarily’ by $50 in mid-December. Maybe there aren’t enough early adopters out there to begin with.