Another 7″ Tablet

Posted by Thomas Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:19:02 +0000

I ordered another 7″ tablet over the weekend. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s shipped direct from China. I had been thinking about getting a Spark/Vivaldi tablet. But then I realized that I didn’t really want to deal with less than polished software, and that really since this was just going to be something to tinker with, something running Android would work perfectly. So I got one of these. It has the same processor as the Spark/Vivaldi. It doesn’t have the full 1G of ram or as high of resolution that some of the other tablets do, but supposedly it has built-in bluetooth (only time will tell if it does or not). I figure trading built-in bluetooth for a cheaper tablet with a bit less RAM/resolution is worth it. Another prime criteria was being able to get it on my network. In theory it ships w/ Android 4.0, so it shouldn’t be a problem (again crossing my fingers that the description is accurate).

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  1. Cole said on April 3, 2012 @ 9:16 am:

    Looks pretty similar to this one:
    http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=MID-T01A&cat=TAB

    I have to say though, that 800×480 is a little low resolution for a 7″ tablet. I have the Dell Streak 7 and the screen leaves a lot to be desired. I just got a Blackberry Playbook (for free through their developer promotion) and the screen is leaps and bounds better. Now just to get real apps on there…

  2. Thomas said on April 3, 2012 @ 9:10 pm:

    Yeah, maybe I should have researched it more. Hopefully it’ll work for my purposes. Else I can chalk it up to another lesson in why not to buy $100 tablets… :)

  3. Cole said on April 3, 2012 @ 10:13 pm:

    Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a nice device. It is just limited for things like reading because of the resolution.

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