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This looks pretty decent for the price. Obviously it's not an iPad, and it probably has a resistive touchscreen, but if the screen is ok (some are better than others) and it really is an Cortex A9 then it might be the best of the Chinese tablets.

I think the best cheap one currently available is this: http://www.dealextreme.com/p/1080p-7-touch-screen-lcd-google... That is a Cortex A8 1GHz, with capacitive touchscreen for ~$200.

If you want cheap, and shipping now then this is ~$100: http://www.dealextreme.com/p/7-touch-screen-lcd-google-andro.... It might be fine for a single-use application (recipe browser in the kitchen, etc), but it's pretty underpowered for much else.



The article said:

  * 7" resistive (capacitive available for about $30 extra)
That's a $30 I absolutely would be spending.


Unless you want to use a stylus...



I see a lot of those capacitive styluses, and the thing that bothers me is that they look too wide at the bottom, as if they're designed to mimic the area of a fingerprint. If I wanted to do more intricate and accurate work, I'd like to have the finer point that a traditional stylus provides.


Probably doesn't work with capacity sensing.


i moved from n900 resistive to nexus s capacitive a month ago, and it's not that bigger deal.

but i suspect that the n900 capacitive was high quality then your average cheep as chips chinese tablet so the comparison is probably useless.


> It might be fine for a single-use application (recipe browser in the kitchen, etc), but it's pretty underpowered for much else.

Does anyone actually tablets like this? I can only imagine such a tablet at the bottom of a draw underneath the hometheater warranty.

You might as well splash out on a device you're going to use


You might as well splash out on a device you're going to use

I have two of that device's immediate predecessor, the $100 WM8505, and I support this assertion.

I've used them mostly for messing around, reverse engineering, and playing with and actually hacking on (most of mine spend most of their time in pieces with a serial header soldered on them.)

They're fun for that, although even that can be a little tiring due to (a) crappy hardware quality, (b) crappy vendorware closed software.


Think digital photoframes and/or home automation control panels.


It seems like a cool toy, something you don't have to worry about breaking. (But then again, $150 is a bit much for a toy.) Trying to use this instead of an iPad or Xoom is probably a path to misery, you shouldn't buy it with that expectation.


Uh, where are the buttons? Specifically, Back and Menu.


They appear to be on the east of the device ("iPad" button being south)




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