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Worst gadget ever? Ars reviews a $99 Android tablet
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Re: Worst gadget ever? Ars reviews a $99 Android tablet
#22Competing with Apple on price alone in a market they essentially created. Great strategy..
Seems to have worked for some chaps in Redmond, at least since 1995
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#23I bought one for my girlfriend's two-year-old to watch Sesame Street. It works for that, and if she decides to throw it on the ground (which she's still learning not to do), hey, at least it wasn't an expensive cell phone or something.
Mostly I agree with the article's assessment on the touchscreen. I haven't had any trouble with the wireless on mine, though.
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#25Wow, unabashed apple fluffer arstechnica finds and reviews cheapest example of shenzhen style knockoff tech with expectations of terribleness, and confirms they don't like it a bit, no sir, not at all.
In other news, there is a lot of water in the pacific ocean.
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#26So does anybody know of a decent cheap android tablet? I'd really like to have one so I can browse the internet in my bed before I got to sleep and I don't want to pay ~600€ (iPad,tab) for that (and I don't live in USA where this is "pocket change") ...
I haven't tried one, but the archos 70 is capacitive, 7" android 2.2 (I believe, even though the web page says 2.1), 1ghz, 8gb, hdmi. For $275USD and it's shipping now (though in limited supply). It seems to be getting decent reviews by android folks.
https://store.archos.com/archos-internet-tablet-p-5004.html
There is also a 10" version (the 101) that seems to be newly available in some markets for ~$400USD.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems to have worked for some chaps in Redmond, at least since 1995
You're comparing Microsoft to the guys who made this tablet? Yikes..
There was a veritable Cambrian explosion of different personal computer designs in the late 70s early 80s before the PC came along that existed contemporaneously with the Apple II.
Pretty much all of these were evolutionary dead ends.
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#28When people talk about the problems of Android fragmentation, its this low end where things get really scary.
Re: Worst gadget ever? Ars reviews a $99 Android tablet
#29I'd guess there were similar reviews of Altair 8800 in 1975/76 ;-)
Well, the Altair was the first of its kind. Despite its flaws, it was a revolutionary product that sparked an entire market. This tablet, on the other hand, comes after the iPad and other less shoddy Android competitors. If there's innovation in the tablet space, it's not going to be kickstarted by cheap knockoffs.
It was the first cheap computer. Cheap enough for the unwashed masses in US. And tablets like this one are the first computers cheap enough for billions of ppl in Asia, Africa and Latin America. And for many, many, many other purposes.
90% of the time innovation in IT is kick-started by cheap knockoffs ;-)
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#30I pity all the uninformed consumers who buy this, or even worse, people who receive this as a gift from those uninformed consumers...
Devices like these can be very harmful to Android's image in the public, especially if their only feature/selling point is "powered by Android".
My brother bought a Samsung Galaxy cellphone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy). The half-baked combination of hardware and software, with no updates available, made him soon regret the purchase. He was angry at Samsung and Google/Android for "producing such crap". Somehow he managed to return it and got an iPhone instead.
This experience made him to not buy an Android phone again. More of such bad examples/devices could become a really big problem for Android.