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In short, the Springboard will not be available on November 9th. Instead, those interested in picking up this 7 inch Honeycomb running tablet will have to wait until November 16th.
Moving onto the pricing and we are seeing something similar to what T-Mobile announced with the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus — a downpayment followed by monthly payments in addition to a two-year agreement and data plan. The Springboard will come with a downpayment of $179.99.
Worth noting, that $179.99 downpayment comes AFTER a $50 mail-in rebate. And in addition, the monthly payments, those include “20 interest free monthly payments of $10 on approved credit.” To further confuse this new method of pricing, we suspect that the ‘approved credit’ portion may allow the price to be adjusted as needed. Further details in this announcement include that the downpayments could range anywhere from $179.99 up to $399.99 depending on your credit worthiness.
Otherwise, the T-Mobile Springboard comes made by Huawei and brings features to include a 7 inch display along with a dual-core 1.2GHz processor, microSD card slot, 1.3 megapixel front facing camera and a 5 megapixel rear facing camera. In addition, the Springboard tablet will be running Android 3.2 Honeycomb and arrive with support for the T-Mobile 4G (HSPA+) network along with pre-installed apps to include Netflix, Blockbuster On Demand, T-Mobile TV and a few others.
Bottom line, while nice to see more tablets getting announced with T-Mobile, it seems they are only getting more and more confusing in terms of the price. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a simple on-contract purchase price and avoid those monthly payments?
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