Blue cuts H1 Mobile PC price almost in half

With the low-cost subnotebook segment experiencing booming sales for quite some time now, just about every major manufacturer/reseller has brought out their contenders in time for the back to school season, which serves as a lead-in towards the holidays.

With so much competition, a shake-out, and resultant price war was bound to happen sooner or later. Philippine-based rebadger Blue, which has just this April introduced its Via C7M based 7" H1 at P16,995, roughly USD415 at that time (see post here), has now slashed the price down to just P9,995, roughly USD214.

Given that it is being advertised as a limited stock and limited offer promo, it looks like Blue will be phasing out the model. At P16,995 the H1 was a so-so contender against the Asus Eee PC, having a slower processor and heavier weight due to the bigger storage (albeit a conventional hard drive). But at P9,995, which is actually quite close to the USD199 original announced price of the Eee PC, it is actually attractive as the "tote-anywhere, throw-anywhere" subnotebook that the Eee PC was initially made out to be (but be careful of the hard drive though).

Now considering that Blue apparently only sells locally (in the Philippines), the question now is how to get hold of one before they run out of stock.

Blue H1 product page here.