Vulcan slashes price of FlipStart
Do you like me more for $699?
(Credit: CNET Networks Inc.)At its starting price of $1,999, the Vulcan FlipStart was egregiously overpriced when we reviewed it last spring. A $500 price cut last fall failed to impress, so yesterday Paul Allen and company lopped more than half off the price, lowering it to $699.
Tell me, are you more likely to consider a UMPC (FlipStart or otherwise) for $699 or do you feel that still too much to pay?
Coincidentally, I'll be posting a full review of the Wibrain B1 later today (covered previously on Crave here and here), which is the cheapest UMPC I've seen--priced at, you guessed it, $699. The review will be live later today here.






I would be more likely to carry somthing like this vs. an ipod, but not an iphone.
But to be perfectly honest the only company that could get me to buy a UMPC would be Nintendo. A cross between a pc and portable gamming device, that comes with a p2p phone as well. Let me know when somthing like that comes out.
BTW: this unit look a little too wide for my pocket.
Is that a umpc in your pocet, or you just happy to
see me?