Walmart.com’s best selling tablet today is the Pandigital R7T40WWHF1. They include a 4gB microSD card in a bundle.
I have spent more than that on a fancy pocket calculator for maths students while this does so much more. It’s worth the price just for the display yet it’s a general-purpose computer. It’s probably not the best at anything but the price but it looks like an incredibly useful tool. It reminds me of Star Trek. OK, it does not travel at “Warp Speed” but it is extremely portable being 7 inches and not 10 inches, a better size for most pockets and purses and hands.
It’s lack of speed probably stems from the antiquated ARM11 CPU but that also permits the low price. To give a hint, Nvidia Tegra used ARM11 and we are now at Tegra 3 and a newest chip in the series is planned for early next year using ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore. If you just need some connectivity and some computing power it’s a bargain. You get the result of $billions invested in R&D in a convenient package for the price of taking a large family to the movies, or one tank of gasoline, or dinner for two at a good restaurant… and this gadget will outlast all of those transactions.
I have always admired great technology. It allows us to do more for less and makes the world a better place. With all the pessimism in the world, good things like IT that works well and is affordable is about as good as it gets except for my imminent harvest of radishes.
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pocket calculator is really a good way to see what is going on. Yes this is the other older history repeat to what is currently happening.
Older models pocket calculators stayed around in production at the cheaper end of the market.
The most common calculators in the market were the ones with the basic functions because that is what people needed. Not what the wanted.
I suspect Android will cover the Need part.
At under $100 there one of these little computers in my life sometime in the near future just for the curiosity factor alone. And it’s nice to have a choice of models.
I would love to have a little computer that fits in my pocket, I hate having to lugg around a laptop all the time…
A piece of crap. The screen is outright poor: 800×600 for 7″.
Phenom 800×600 for 7 inchs also depends on how poor your eyes are to start off with.
Lower res bigger pixels can be good for those with poorer vision or those who don’t want to admit they have failing vision.
So resolution of screen directly relates to target market.
Phenom in fact the OLPC goes for a very high resultion to make it hard for older people to use. Its a dirty little trick the number of the receptors at the back of eyes don’t increase as you get bigger. But as you get bigger the distance to the screen of the comfortable location is a longer distance away from eyes. So the comfortable resultion reduces.
As you age remember people with oversized numbering on phones and other devices. Means to focus on close things to see fine details also reduces this is part of being human.
So the theory of higher an higher resultions does not exactly work. Each age segment has a more ideal pixel to area ratios. Younger the higher it is.
Uh pog…
Did you read the reviews on this unit. ?
The vast majority of the reviews were from people who returned their units within a day of purchasing them.
I especially. Like the experience of the wall,art associate that bought oNe who on contacting the manufacturer was told that they only guaranteed the applications installed on the tablet would work.
Yep Microsoft is quaking in its boots over this one….
Oldman
“I especially. Like the experience of the wall,art associate that bought oNe who on contacting the manufacturer was told that they only guaranteed the applications installed on the tablet would work.”
First generation.
http://reviews.walmart.com/1336/19887946/pandigital-r7t40wwhf1-novel-with-wifi-7-0-touchscreen-tablet-pc-featuring-android-operating-system-white-reviews/reviews.htm
Also read all the reviews. Some people loved it. Of course those were people who did not expect it to be more than what it is.
Go read some early MS Dos and basic machine reviews Oldman. You will find some that make the bad reviews on this look minor.
Also read those reviews carefully when it first went on sale it was $139.98 for its level of functionality $60 dollars is the correct price. Still for what in it there is still 5 dollars profit a unit there.
Come on oldman First generation of a PC under 3000 dollars no one was happy with those same with the first generation of PC under 1500 and 1000 and 500.
Almost every first generation stuff is crap. Take your rose colored glasses off and look at history without them for a moment. XT first generation 16 bit processor limited to run on a 8 bit bus because 8 bits was cheaper to produce. So compared to the current day minicomputers XT was under performing trash.
Its the second and third generations in the same price range that as Microsoft I would be worried about. Just look at the second and third generations of the PC and see how far that moved forwards.
With your rose colored glasses off do you still stand by your point of view Microsoft has nothing to fear Oldman.
Ok Microsoft might not have to fear this device. But going by history the next generations MS does have to fear.
“Ok Microsoft might not have to fear this device.”
I believe that is what I said. All else in your post is, in light of the fact that we
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