[ale] Cheap tablets?

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Here's another: 7" for $34.

http://www.amazon.com/Camera-Monitor-Support-Rotating-Screen/dp/B007SLDF7O/ref=sr_1_67?ie=UTF8&qid=1371874170&sr=8-67&keywords=raspberry+pi

Ron

On 6/21/2013 11:43 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I couldn't resist posting this link to a 3.5" lcd display for $17 that 
> you could use with a raspberry pi.  I don't know anything about it, 
> but it looks cool.  I have a little anniversary money to spend.  May 
> have to buy a pi before the night's over.  Maybe Alex could use a pi 
> and this screen instead of an android tablet.  Of course, the price 
> goes up as you add wifi, power supply, case, memory, etc.
>
> http://www.amazon.com/3-5-Inch-TFT-Monitor-Automobile/dp/B0045IIZKU/ref=sr_1_31?ie=UTF8&qid=1371870730&sr=8-31&keywords=raspberry+pi
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
>
> On 6/20/2013 8:46 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>
>> Google on "all winner a31 10" IPS" for some fondleslab porn. $250 
>> gets an no name iPad equivalent in android. No Bluetooth but 
>> quad-core arm and strong community work to get cyanogen on these.
>>
>> On Jun 20, 2013 7:26 AM, "Boris Borisov" <bugyatl at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:bugyatl at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Just don't buy the the one that I got. Has some sort of MIPS cpu with
>>     no FPU slow and painful to work with. I would aim at generic ARM from
>>     now on. Prices vary from $50 to $100 for no brand tablets. Post
>>     details about this project.
>>
>>     On 6/20/13, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net
>>     <mailto:agcarver%2Bale at acarver.net>> wrote:
>>     > On 6/19/2013 21:49, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
>>     >
>>     >> I like to run the Dolphin browser on my tablet, which is a bit
>>     more
>>     >> full featured than firefox.  I brought up a similar thread several
>>     >> months ago and there was some discussion about how to use the
>>     remote
>>     >> screen as an extension of your main one, but I don't remember the
>>     >> title or the date.  Let us know how it works out if you get
>>     one.  I
>>     >> carry my tablet with me where ever I go, so I haven't used it
>>     for an
>>     >> aux screen as you're discussing.  One other limit of cheap
>>     tablets to
>>     >> keep in mind is memory.  It probably has 4 gb of storage.  You may
>>     >> run out of that quickly if you want to store photos, documents,
>>     >> music, videos, audio books, or podcasts.  I'm probably using 25 GB
>>     >> total on my tablet for some of those purposes.  If it didn't
>>     have an
>>     >> sd card slot in addition to the internal memory, I'd be toast for
>>     >> what I use it for.
>>     >
>>     > I think you're misunderstanding my intentions.  It would not
>>     carry any
>>     > files or be used for storage in any way.  It literally would be
>>     bound to
>>     > the desk (or wall) never to move again unless the desk moves.  The
>>     > intent is to have the various tickers and monitors running on a
>>     browser
>>     > on the tablet so that I don't have to run them on the desktop.  No
>>     > extensions of the existing desktop (I do that already with the
>>     other
>>     > machines using Synergy), it's just a place to dump the little
>>     things
>>     > that don't need to occupy real estate, RAM, and CPU on my regular
>>     > machine and its screens.  Given that it's a mini computer with
>>     a browser
>>     > and HCI, it's all that I need for a browser based ticker.
>>      Right now I
>>     > have most of the tickers running on Firefox windows (one per
>>     ticker).  I
>>     > can rewrite them to all appear on a single page and let
>>     Firefox/Chrome
>>     > run on the tablet (later on I can write an Android application
>>     to do it
>>     > but that's far in the future).
>>     >
>>     > _
>>

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