subscribed. I want to pick up some type of tablet in the near future to entertain me on flights/in the airport
have you called all of them? Either way, I was just stating that the wifi version is out and way beyond his price range. Moving on...
here's a list from amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_s...rds=android+tablet+2+2&ie=UTF8&qid=1299627099
Get the B&N nook and install honey comb on it. Its fairly easy to do and you can find a nook for less than 200. http://bensbargains.net/search.php http://forum.androidcentral.com/bar...oad-install-honeycomb-nook-color-sd-card.html
The archos 70 is just a little more (260-270) and has bluetooth and a better processor. It just doesn't have the developer support that the Nook has. I'm torn between the two.
Don't you have Tmobile? Guy at work got the galaxy tab for $199 or something stupid cheap. Not the fastest tablet, but the screen is nice. I don't think he had to add a line either. They are trying to get rid of them as the Galaxy Tab 2 is coming out soon.
He actually convinced them to let him use his phone upgrade on the tablet, keep his cell line, and he somehow manged to get like $50 out of it... Unless you're referring to someone else....
The Archos 101 looks good to me, as Archos seems to be one of the few mfrs who's got consistently decent reviews. But nearly $400 for 16GB.
I have a galaxy tab from work. It could be a little faster, but since I paid nothing for it and just get to use it for whatever I absolutely love it. Smaller screen is nice as I can take it anywhere and it's nicer browsing/reading on it compared to my phone.
i myself got a "Viewsonic G-tablet" from my wife. woot had a sale on it for 289, but i got mine for 379... the stock software sucks on this but over at XDA the development for this tablet has a big community. I loaded up a custom rom and boom AWESOMENESS works and gets pretty good battery life. i play games, logmein, and web browse like a madman, flash support, only drawback is no honeycomb but after google opens its source for it i see it making its way into this tablet... g-tablet vs xoom xoom has honeycomb, back camera, gps, 3g/4g, thiner id personaly go with xoom for the extra features but the price is way to expensive... and everything else is 7" with same specs as g-tablet...
My father purchased a Viewsonic G-Tablet for my daughter as a birthday present. Like Vegas, the stock rom really sucked and was buggy out of the box. Plus it did not have android market loaded on it. I loaded a new rom on it and this thing is now great. My daughter loves it and I like it so much I am tempted to go out and buy one for myself. I am really impressed with it so far.
http://support.vzw.com/pdf/system_update/galaxy_tab.pdf Awesome. Immediately noticed a difference in browsing. Before I could barely view threads with 10+ pictures (such as the spring install day thread). It seems like it just scrolls down better now. Guessing that's part of the "Browser performance and speed".
I know this is old but I got a Nook Color for $180. Rooted it and running cyanogenmod7. So far it rocks. Honeycomb was a little buggy as a lot of the apps aren't screen sized correctly yet. And make sure you install the Daligrin kernel...overclocks from 800 to 1200.
+1 for CM7.. not on a tablet but running it on my phone as my daily driver with great results. Highly recommended if its available for your device. Sent from my Evo Shift using Tapatalk
I have an Archos 43. Wiped the goofy OS it shipped with and installed Froyo (2.2) on it the day I bought it. Comes with either 8 or 16 gig internal ($175 and $220 respectively) with microSD slot up to 32 gigs and a 1 Ghz processor. The 43 is just barely bigger than most phones but I bought it to have a cheap portable video player for travel. The device has a wide range of supported formats (MPEG-2, AVI, MP4, MKV, MOV, WMV, MPG, PS, TS, VOB, FLV, RM, RMVB, ASF, 3GP) as well as a cheesy kick stand and built in speakers that do the job. The screen looks great and I have pretty decent battery life. The biggest problem I have with it is the screen is resistive so the responsiveness is substandard compared to the newer capacitive screens. The tablet also has a rear facing camera but the HD Video I have recorded with it is fairly marginal. If you are looking for a bunch of apps/games I would say look elsewhere but this was just what I needed for a cheap portable media player with 6+ hours of battery life.:wiggle: