[Noisebridge-discuss] Inexpensive android tablets?

Naomi Most pnaomi at gmail.com
Wed Apr 10 02:49:07 UTC 2013


Ohhh, bummer about the audio in.  That's not a dealbreaker for what I want
to do, but it's annoying.




On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Ken M. Haggerty <kenmhaggerty at gmail.com>wrote:

> This also means that card readers like Square, Intuit, and PayPal do not
> work on the Nexus 7! Grrr....
>
> (joining in late, have not yet read previous responses),
> Ken
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Greg Albrecht W2GMD <gba at gregalbrecht.com
> > wrote:
>
>> I like my N7, but the other downside is that there's no audio-in on the
>> input cable. Your options are use the built-in mics, or external bluetooth
>> (or USB).
>>
>> -g
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Andrew Byrne <andrew at pachakutech.com>wrote:
>>
>>> 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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