Well... some of them ended up cheap(er) because there's something wrong/limiting that the end user can fix. In the case of the g-tablet, it's screen angle (not fixable) and bad UI (fixable with replacement ROM, although Viewsonic's got a much better one available now). The other hardware bits are pretty good - very zippy once re-ROMed. Ditto the Nook color: Limited, slow hardware (not fixable) and ROM making it an e-reader only.
The g-tablet's got the advantage of being unlocked. I followed 'this' (http://forum.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?p=442691#post442691) set of instructions to upgrade to TnT Lite. The whole process took maybe 40 minutes; would have been faster but the downloads took a bit. TnT Lite gets you an everything-works ROM with cruft cut out (faster) and a fairly stock Android experience. It's pre-rooted, so things like sideloading (open an apk with the file browser to install an app) just work. And the market app's already installed (happy figuring out what apps you want!) The Nook's a bit fussier to upgrade; I'd just about decided to buy one and try re-ROMing it when the Woot deal showed up.One deciding factor is that there's a large community around the g-tab (one of the reasons I went with Squeeze, way back when) BTW, it looks like it's going to be quite a while before Honeycomb becomes available as Google's put a hold on releasing the source to the world, so custom ROM builders haven't even seen it. Viewsonic/Malata's in a funny position as they're not part of the Open Handset Alliance (they don't make phones) so it's not even clear that -they- have access - so there probably won't be similar hardware from Malata with Honeycomb (which might be re-targeted). On the other hand, it's a tegra2, so it'll definitely be fast enough if/when. If you haven't found it, there's a great set of g-tablet forums over at 'XDA' (http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=841). -- bobkoure ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bobkoure's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86531 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
