For what it's worth, Woot has refurb Nook Colors for $104 today. http://www.woot.com/
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Richards Jr, Edward C. <[email protected] > wrote: > I would love to have the new Motorola Xoom, but it is just too rich for > my blood, at least at this point. I heard a rumor that Sam’s will be selling > the Wi-Fi version for $539 and I might pop for that, but I’m playing the > “wait and see” game to see what happens as more Android based tablets come > to market. For now, the Nook Color is taking care of my tablet wants. > > > > Ed > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Jonathan Roberts > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 30, 2011 10:00 AM > > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [brlug-general] Android tablets? tabloids? tabdroids? > > > > We just got a few Galaxy Tablets at work (the 7" ones). The IT guys went > crazy and seem to love them. I'm still thinking about the Nook myself.. > > Jonathan > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Richards Jr, Edward C. < > [email protected]> wrote: > > I bought a Nook Color, rooted it and installed a pre-release version of > Honeycomb that one of the XDA guys packaged. It seems to work just fine. > I use it every day for work and pleasure. For $250, it is a steal. You > may want to look into roming the gtablet. Wish Google would go ahead and > release the source to HC. > > > Ed > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Brad Bendily > > Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 9:33 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Android tablets? tabloids? tabdroids? > > So. I did buy an iPad2 (for the wife). It's cool, speedy, screen is > decent (could have been better). Aside from iOS, it's probably the > best tablet on the market. > However, i decided i wanted an Android tablet for myself. And, if so, > honeycomb > was/is the way to go. A buddy of mine bought a Xoom. It's really nice, > also speedy, > nice screen, honeycomb is nice, cool widgets that iOS doesn't have. But > the 3g > model was more than i wanted to spend and I don't think i'll use the > service. So, i > was going to wait for the wifi only model. Then woot came along with the > Viewsonic gtablet for $280. Which as Tim said previously, is the > tegra2 dual core chip. > Same hardware as the xoom just about, except for the screen. I don't > have > the gtab yet, supposed to be here tomorrow, but for that price it > seemed like a really > good deal, considering the hardware. Also, as Tim said, there is a > pretty big > modding/following at xda. There are about 6 or so different roms all > of which claim to be > more speedy/responsive than the default OS. So, even though it won't > be honeycomb, > it's still android and is pretty quick. > regarding the 3 links below. Apparently the Adam Ink has shipped, but > there seems to > be a lot of questions surrounding that tablet.They're still not taking > orders and a lot > of folks had concerns about the ones that did ship, and I think people > are still waiting > for some of their orders. > I've never noticed before, how there was so much talk and hype at the > trade shows > and then all of these tablets never show up. sucks for the consumer. > but hey, there is always duke nukem forever to look forward to! > bb > > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Brad Bendily <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've found a few mid price range that I like. Maybe given some time > these will > > be solid viable options. > > > > http://www.openpeak.com/OpenTablet10.php > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_tablet > > (this one is supposedly shipping. not sure how long new orders will > take) > > > > http://www.innoversal.com.tw/en-us/products/lattice.aspx > > (this one is cool cause it list Ubuntu as an OS) > > > > > >
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