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rrrocket

Brisbane, Queensland

1377 posts

Seems to good to be true. Would be good for a wireless option to browse net, emails, ebooks etc...

What you guys think? It's not a want tho, jus more of a luxury item.

• Surf the internet (with WIFI)
• E-mail
• Facebook, YouTube and more
• Google Maps
• Read eBooks using ePub, TXT, Amazon's Kindle and other DRM formats
• View and manage photo libraries
• Watch videos with the built in video playing software
• Supports screen rotation
• Up to 32GB of storage with MicroSD cards
• and plenty more!

www.catchoftheday.com.au

11:09pm 25/04/11 Permalink

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scuzzy

Other International

14467 posts

rock it

NOT upgradable to Android 2.2

11:13pm 25/04/11 Permalink

rrrocket

Brisbane, Queensland

1378 posts

rock it

I'm not up with Android. Is that a bad thing?

11:18pm 25/04/11 Permalink

Eorl

Gold Coast, Queensland

1551 posts

I'm not up with Android. Is that a bad thing?

It's the current OS version.

11:28pm 25/04/11 Permalink

rrrocket

Brisbane, Queensland

1380 posts

It's the current OS version.

Understood. But in Android world is that a bad thing?

11:34pm 25/04/11 Permalink

Midda

Brisbane, Queensland

6633 posts

What are you people talking about? Latest version of Android is 3.0. This thing says it can run 2.1 a the latest, which came out over a year ago. The screen is slightly lower resolution than my phone (which is over a year old as well). It has a 533Mhz CPU and 256MB of RAM which is pitiful. Most likely has a resistive touch screen as well.

It's cheap, but don't expect it to do wonders.

11:47pm 25/04/11 Permalink

rrrocket

Brisbane, Queensland

1381 posts

ahhh resistive touch screen. Like my Wife's phone which is shit and non -responsive. Thanks for clearing up! I was on the credit card page to purchase.

11:50pm 25/04/11 Permalink

Midda

Brisbane, Queensland

6634 posts

I don't -know- that it has a resistive touch screen, but for that price, it's unlikely to have a capacitive screen.

11:51pm 25/04/11 Permalink

Fixah

Brisbane, Queensland

5511 posts

2.2 is the current version.

2.3 is coming out soon (if not out already)

This is tablet is running 2.1 and can't be upgraded to 2.2.

Is that a bad thing? for a $100 it's not, but it's not great either.

11:53pm 25/04/11 Permalink

Pinky

Melbourne, Victoria

9831 posts

Not being upgradable is pretty much against the Android design philosophy so it sounds like it has some custom device drivers (for the touch screen perhaps) which are probably poorly or incorrectly written for Android.

I would avoid, even at that price, good as it is.

12:03am 26/04/11 Permalink

rrrocket

Brisbane, Queensland

1382 posts

Thanks for your advice fellas. I'll stay clear of it.

I would think for that price it would be reactive screen.

08:38am 26/04/11 Permalink

EniGma

Brisbane, Queensland

5463 posts

Honeycomb 3.0 is the latest for Tablets.

09:45am 26/04/11 Permalink

carson

Gippsland, Victoria

972 posts

I would steer clear of COTD full stop.

WWW

10:42am 26/04/11 Permalink

parabol

Brisbane, Queensland

6172 posts

Yeah stay away from anything below 2.2 is my advice after having both 2.1 and 2.2 devices. Also stay away from COTD unless you're buying simple or rare electronic stuff below $50.

10:51am 26/04/11 Permalink

Midda

Brisbane, Queensland

6635 posts

2.2 is the current version.

2.3 is coming out soon (if not out already)

This is tablet is running 2.1 and can't be upgraded to 2.2.

Is that a bad thing? for a $100 it's not, but it's not great either.

2.3 is the current version for phones. It came out months ago with the Nexus S. 3.0 is the latest for tablets.

11:34am 26/04/11 Permalink

step

Brisbane, Queensland

2246 posts

I would steer clear of COTD full stop.

Amen

12:21pm 26/04/11 Permalink

Dazhel

Gold Coast, Queensland

3209 posts

I would steer clear of COTD full stop.

Yeah kinda - $100 for an tablet when Apple, Samsung and Motorola are selling them for $500-$600 sounds like a used car salesmen flogging off a late model Ferrari for $30K

12:58pm 26/04/11 Permalink

Timmeh

Brisbane, Queensland

84 posts

oversized phone without the phone.

02:14pm 26/04/11 Permalink

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