&gt;I just found a 7-inch tablet for £28 ($43.10) on Amazon (plus a camera and RAM and stuff). Including taxes and shipping. Why is this so expensive?<p>Sales volumes determine economies of scale, it is likely the £28 tablet was made in quantities much larger than the pi screen (I&#x27;d guess at least 2 orders of magnitude).<p>Also, not all screens are equal. It&#x27;s not just resolution: there&#x27;s colour reproduction, viewing angles, brightness, contrast and response time. On the non-technical side mentioned on the blog, they mentioned they wanted a manufacture who would make the panel for a long time. I would bet a dollar that Pi screen beats the £28-tablet display on all the above parameters