[ale] Archos Tablet

[Jim Kinney]

hehe. I though samsung was code for "crap on customer". The only other brand
name that does worse is Sony.

I'm not seeing these for less than about $290 so $.3k is about right for
local retail. It is running Android 2.2 so lots of extra apps available.

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Richard Bronosky <Richard at bronosky.com>wrote:

> My recent experience with Samsung phones has taught me to be careful about
> buying Android devices from a company that doesn't rely on the success of
> their phone business. Updating mobile devices is not like
> upgrading/reinstalling Linux on your desktop. You can't just go grab an
> installer of your favorite distro. You rely on the hardware manufacturer to
> distribute the updates, or if you are lucky some enthusiast still port over
> a ROM from some other device and it will be 50% functional, maybe 75% if
> there is a big community. The problem is, there is no money in it for them
> to upgrade. In fact they seem to think that upgrading the software keeps you
> from replacing the hardware. What they haven't figured out is that you can't
> crap on your customer and then expect to ever sell then anything else.
> On May 12, 2011 7:52 AM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Never seen one. The price is decent. With android on it you can grab
> > several readers so that should work.
> > Hmm. May have to look at this closer.
> > On May 12, 2011 7:44 AM, "John Pilman" <jcpilman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Does anyone here have experience or knowledge of the Achos 101 tablet?
> >> I am thinking of getting one for the following reasons:
> >>
> >> ~ $300
> >> 10" dual touch capacitive screen
> >> WiFi
> >> It claims to dual boot Android and Linux Angstrom.
> >> It accepts micro SDHC and USB 2 flash drives.
> >> My primary purpose is to read PDF documents.
> >>
> >> I tried testing one at BrandSmart in Kennesaw, but was not successful
> >> there. That is, I plugged in a flash drive and saw my files, but the
> >> tablet failed to open a PDF when I selected it.
> >>
> >> Thoughts?
> >>
> >> ...John
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