Giving Android a try
Apr. 4th, 2011 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyA tablet that I think fits my criteria pretty well, including price, has finally become available, so I ordered one today. It's a Herotab C8, with these specs:
All for $210. The Youtube reviews of it are quite impressive, it seems blazingly fast and smooth compared to the junk that's been on the market for the last year. And I have yet to see a bad review of it including from people who have them in hand. All are quite impressed and happy.
I was particularly impressed in the video reviews that the PDF viewing including graphics was smooth, and that the speech to text actually seems to work well. Also it takes standard Human Interface Device USB devices; you can just buy off-the-shelf mice and keyboards, or little texting style keyboards, and just plug them in. Such things are dirt cheap, you can find little pocket sized keyboards with a touchpad and wireless interface for < $50. It'll also take any standard mass storage device, thumb drive or hard drive.
It's coming from Merimobiles.com in Canada so it'll potentially be a couple of weeks.
- Android 2.2
- 512M RAM, 4G flash, MicroSD slot for up to 32G additional flash
- 2x USB host and OTG, HDMI including full 1080p video playback capability
- Multitouch capacitive touchscreen
- 1GHz Samsung processor
- Speech recognition that seems to work (!)
- Full Android app store access
- 7" screen, seems a great size to be relatively pocketable
All for $210. The Youtube reviews of it are quite impressive, it seems blazingly fast and smooth compared to the junk that's been on the market for the last year. And I have yet to see a bad review of it including from people who have them in hand. All are quite impressed and happy.
I was particularly impressed in the video reviews that the PDF viewing including graphics was smooth, and that the speech to text actually seems to work well. Also it takes standard Human Interface Device USB devices; you can just buy off-the-shelf mice and keyboards, or little texting style keyboards, and just plug them in. Such things are dirt cheap, you can find little pocket sized keyboards with a touchpad and wireless interface for < $50. It'll also take any standard mass storage device, thumb drive or hard drive.
It's coming from Merimobiles.com in Canada so it'll potentially be a couple of weeks.
