[Noisebridge-discuss] Inexpensive android tablets?

Andrew Byrne andrew at pachakutech.com
Tue Apr 9 16:53:17 UTC 2013


Love my n7--as you know, I dev on mine-- great battery, enough memory for
most, 32ghd... I think there is even some gsm models.
Problems: bad gps, no rear facing camera, no card reader or external memory.
The otg cable partially addresses the later two problems.
On Apr 8, 2013 3:30 PM, "Taylor Alexander" <tlalexander at gmail.com> wrote:

> Of note: Asus makes the Nexus 7.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Taylor Alexander <tlalexander at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Just got a promotional email about some new $150 asus tablet:
>> http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BDS25VA
>>
>> Haven't read a review but it looks good for such an inexpensive device.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Taylor Alexander <tlalexander at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I can tell you that the $90 chinese tablets on Amazon are REALLY bad
>>> compared to "real" tablets. If you can afford the $200 Nexus 7 it's a MUCH
>>> better device than the $90 tabs. We bought one of the cheap ones at work,
>>> and it's so bad that not only are we not going to use it here, but I could
>>> take it home and use it for free and I still don't think I'll bother.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Naomi Most <pnaomi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ah hah.  Thanks Miloh, and everybody else, but +1 for Miloh.  :-D
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:24 AM, miloh <miloh at froggytoad.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've had a good experience getting a Nexus 7 at central computer on
>>>>> Howard street in San Francisco. It includes an nfc reader which some
>>>>> folks are trying to use for purposes other than transit and access
>>>>> control.
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