So, to make a long story short, my girlfriend got me a tablet for our anniversary. The flytouch android Epad 2.2. Firstly, has anyone heard about this?
Secondly, can anyone recommend a good tablet at a fair price? and a good place to get it. I'm very well versed in Android but not tablets. Thanks :)
Posted Apr 14, 2011, 12:10 AM UTC
The flytouch is not all that bad...I had an eken m003 that I hacked to hell. It was good but I grew out of it. I eventually sold it to a friend who was only going to use it for facebook and listening to music. I then was lucky enough to pick up a cruz tablet for $169 at best buy. The cruz is good for my uses it does not have market but I got around that by using applanet. Now I have an optimus v and the tablet is gathering dust.
Long story short...knowing what I know now. If I could go back, I would not have bought the cheap devices, and would have gone with the nook color. I still feel the burn from when B&N had the nook color on sale for $249.
Nook sounds good, But theres this and this . I have no idea on them other then they use the same cpu/gpu combo which is in the Galaxy S phones (Which is a big plus). By the looks of things they look like identical tablets. They are basicly Samsung Galaxy Tab cheap chinese knock offs with lower resolution screens at 1/3 price or so.
if these are the specs: http://www.coolest-products.com/tablet/7inch-flytouch-epad-android-2-2-wifi-camera-533mhz-tablet-pc then its not what people would call a "good" tablet.
Most will recommend a nookcolor as a tablet. It is nice and small, and the screen is great (my wife has one). I like my gtablet a lot, personally, but others don't care for the viewing angles on the screen, which do suck, but is fine for personal viewing.
These are about the best cheap tablets you can get. The nookcolor is $250, and you can find the gtablet for $300 at Office Depot right now.
thank you very much for your help! and don't worry I cancelled the order of the epad last night after watching multiple negative reviews.
now is the nook color just an ereader? Sorry for my noobiness, I truly am but your help is invaluable.
What I want is basically something to do all my websurfing and for the app market, games and such. What do you think? Again, thank you so much
Oh! also, for media. Lots and lots of movie watching from the sd card for when I travel, but primarily the other things.
Archos 101. I bought the flytouch 3 and proceeded to ship it straight back to the tablet hell it spawned from. I ordered an Archos and it's perfect. Nice screen, capacitive, HD movies look amazing, and has iPad quality baterry life. I cannot recommend it enough. Plus it's kick stand that seems stupid turns out to be a sweet little feature.
I gotta admit. I have a pretty huge boner for that archos 101 right now after watching some videos. Can you tell me more about it please? it's performance, features, downfalls, great things, does it have the android market is it easy to root/flash roms like CM7? Thanks so much for this suggestion, I think this is what I'm getting.
ohhh, as far as movies, I'm not sure, never saw how a movie performed on the NC. I know on my gtablet, movies run fine with how I convert them.
The nookcolor starts as an e-reader, but it is easily rom-able. Hell, you can run a rom off the SDCard and never touch the stock software on the device if that freaks you out. My wife uses it for games and web browsing, and still uses it as an e-reader with the nook app off the market.
XDA is a great resource for you to start looking into it. http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=860
Its a great ereader out of the box. I had mine stock for about a week before I bothered to root it. The stock browser is passable, it has a few simple games. The nook color magazines and ebooks are really great. I like the Amazon ebook store better for cheapskates though. Barnes & Noble is just about to open up the nook to the app market, so it's about to get even better for the stock user. If you have to hang out with little kids B&N's kids books are very enjoyable.
I'm sure you'll see this comment all over Reddit, but you can make an SD card to boot into roms to check that out in case you just want to try out the root life.
edit dam I totally read that wrong. It'll take you about no time at all to make the nook a full on android tablet with CM7. Then its great for all the things you're looking for. Not sure abouts they best way to watch movies on it, but the screen looks nice when ever I watch videos on it.