Iped

[Nintendo]

A 7" iPad rip-off!!! With Android!

http://www.cn-service.com/p.php?a=MID%20UMPC%20Tablet&b=No%20Brand&c=&d=CHINA%20Touch%20Screen%207inch%20APad%20Android%20OS%20aPad

Paedo bear approved!

 

[Sphinxter]

Bought one here for about $20 less and free ship.
http://www.ownta.com/moonse-e-7001-touch-screen-apad-tablet-pc-mid-with-android-system.html

 

[Orion4874]

Bought one here for about $20 less and free ship.
http://www.ownta.com/moonse-e-7001-touch-screen-apad-tablet-pc-mid-with-android-system.html

How is it? I'm thinking about getting an android tablet. I'd like an iPad but I'm not sure it's worth that kind of money.

 

[Fishbong]

600 MHz Rockchip 2808A? Sounds kinda slow and it lacks a USB host. But hey what do i know? I haven't even figured out what those Pads are good for anyway.
But for 160€ enough people will buy this because of the shiny touchscreen... I'd rather buy 160€ worth of tasty ice cream

 

[SNESFAN]

600 MHz Rockchip 2808A? Sounds kinda slow and it lacks a USB host. But hey what do i know? I haven't even figured out what those Pads are good for anyway.
But for 160€ enough people will buy this because of the shiny touchscreen... I'd rather buy 160€ worth of tasty ice cream

600mhz on android is probally about right for most things you'd want to do with a tablet. I wouldn't want to do many graphic intensive games but for general browsing and you tubing it should be fine.

I wonder how that chip compares to the 600mhz a8 that's in the moto droid, that phone is very smooth at doing pretty much everything. Expecially at that price I don't see much of a reason not to get it.

I have an iPad, in fact I'm using it right now to type this and I tell you what, until you have a tablet you don't know why you would even want one... But I tell you now, I don't know how I got by without it before now. So much more manuverable than any laptop or net book and a lot faster to pick up and put down. Typeing is more of an effort but really isn't bad at all once you get the hang of it. With the lack of a few functions, it has replaced my need for a laptop all together.

I dono but that's just me.

 

[Sphinxter]

Bought one here for about $20 less and free ship.
http://www.ownta.com...oid-system.html

How is it? I'm thinking about getting an android tablet. I'd like an iPad but I'm not sure it's worth that kind of money.

Still waiting for delivery.

 

[aesir911]

Bought one here for about $20 less and free ship.
http://www.ownta.com...oid-system.html

How is it? I'm thinking about getting an android tablet. I'd like an iPad but I'm not sure it's worth that kind of money.

Still waiting for delivery.

alrighty, make sure to let us know though what you think about it!

 

[Fishbong]

With the lack of a few functions, it has replaced my need for a laptop all together.

Did you mean "Despite the lack"? Or is it the lack of functions that makes it so attractive to you?
I guess if you don't care about productivity or games and you can live with a low resolution and the lack of flash and real multitasking and a file browser and USB and you don't need to share or transfer data to other computers a lot (is it true iPad users email files to themselves?), it really could replace a laptop. And if you want to use your computer whilst standing or walking around it's probably even superior.

i just realized this cheap ripoff device will have flash sometime this year and the ipad won't XD

 

[Squidge]

I've played with a 300Mhz Android-based tablet that was about $60. The touchscreen was utter crap, but otherwise, for general web sites, email and simple puzzle games, it was fine.

It's unlikely that your going to be playing games like Crysis on it, so it's doesn't need to be that powerful. 600Mhz is probably sufficient.

[This one had USB host, the Wifi dongle plugged* into it by default]

[By plugged, I mean there was 4 wires soldered to the USB connector and then soldered to the decased Wifi dongle in true Chinese style.]

 

[fiveseven]

Any word on how easy it is to upgrade from the included Android 1.5 to something more recent?

 

[Squidge]

Any word on how easy it is to upgrade from the included Android 1.5 to something more recent?

Get the source code to the kernel, update it to the version required by 2.1, recompile. Hope that the drivers will still work (these are normally closed source), combine the rest from the 2.1 SDK and build your own OS.

If you don't have the source code, your going to have great fun, and getting source code from chinese companies is sometimes not exactly easy. (I've managed to update my phone to 2.1, but it took 6 weeks, and still crashes and reboots constantly. Now I've got the official one that works perfectly, but they did provide newer drivers and reflash the baseband processor)

 

[SNESFAN]

With the lack of a few functions, it has replaced my need for a laptop all together.

Did you mean "Despite the lack"? Or is it the lack of functions that makes it so attractive to you?
I guess if you don't care about productivity or games and you can live with a low resolution and the lack of flash and real multitasking and a file browser and USB and you don't need to share or transfer data to other computers a lot (is it true iPad users email files to themselves?), it really could replace a laptop. And if you want to use your computer whilst standing or walking around it's probably even superior.

i just realized this cheap ripoff device will have flash sometime this year and the ipad won't XD

i don't understand the wording you used, but if you can look past those things, or don't use them all that often, then yes can replace a laptop.

all my productivity stuff is done on my desktop so I don't use a word processor on the ipad. Google docs can be used if you like that. There are some paid and free document processor apps that can be used as well.

usb drive and portable hard drives are starting to feel a little outdated with the cloud data storeage. I love Google docs and gmail for my document viewing needs. Music can be sync'd from itunes on your desktop. I really don't see the major need for insane amount of storeage in practical every day use. Your mileage may vary.

flash is a touchy subject, but I don't know, I don't really use flash, but I look at it alot like the linux/windows thing. Whatever I need to do on linux that was on windows, there's a solution for. Much like the flash/no flash thing. Always work arounds... just got to know what you want to do.

I love me some WoW and LoL.... if I truely missed anything it's those two games. There's plenty of android and ipad games that can fill that hole in freetime you might have if you're looking for games or whatever.

I'd say if that sounds interesting and you could honestly see yourself being able to let go of the usb ports and keyboard get one of these tablets. If games and "it just works" interface are more important get an ipad, if tinkering and hacking is more your thing get an android tablet.

I absolutely love hacking and customizing android, but having a "just works" has it's advantage.

EDIT: android 2.2 is required for full flash support.

 

[Jourdy288]

Software:
Operating System: Android 1.5 version;
Browser: Google Browser;
Video: MKV(H.264 HP), AVI, RMVB, FLV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2;
Music: MP3, WMA, APE, FLAC, AAC, AC3, WAV;
Photo: JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, TIFF;
Email: Gmail
GPS: Google map

It looks pretty good, actually, I'd like to hear more about it when you guys get yours!

 

[second exodous]

. . .and I tell you what, until you have a tablet you don't know why you would even want one. . .

Ignorance is bliss, I'll just never find out, save my money, and get a new notebook or a second Pandora.

 

[SNESFAN]

600mhz on android is probally about right for most things you'd want to do with a tablet. I wouldn't want to do many graphic intensive games but for general browsing and you tubing it should be fine.

I wonder how that chip compares to the 600mhz a8 that's in the moto droid, that phone is very smooth at doing pretty much everything. Expecially at that price I don't see much of a reason not to get it.

I just wanted to follow up on this a bit, if you roll your own AOSP and implement some of the new stuff floating around the android world. JIT (just in time compilation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation) and BFS (brain fuck scheduler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Fuck_Scheduler) you will get some pretty impressive performance out of 600mhz.

Right now I'm personally getting strikingly similar performance out of my phone that runs 528 stock at only 249mhz with the above mentioned implemented into a custom AOSP build. Saves a little bit of battery, but something I was thinking of doing was setting up a profile for undervolting my phone and running at 249 and seeing exactly how much battery I would save.

I know, kinda off topic, just thought I would share, 600mhz imo should be fine, I don't know how that rockchip compares to the qualcom I'm rolling in my htc hero though.