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Just to add to the arguement, has anyone got a Blackberry Playbook and is it worth a punt now that it's been hacked in price?
I'm after a cheapie smallish (7 inch?) job so that I don't have to take my notebook travelling and I leave behind my smartphone. I only need access to email and online banking. Anyone have any strong recommendations?
I've now installed aptoide onto my Arnova which gives access to a huge selection of Apps, so I now have Spotify to add to the collection of entertaining things it does! Hooray!
As they say, i'm lovin' it 🙂
BillMC the 7" Arnova from HMV should hit the spot? Check out hotukdeals for others.
Blob I'd be interested to hear of any upgrades/apps.
Will keep you posted Al, but I don't think I'll be doing a lot more.
I wanted something that would:
1) surf the internets (tick)
2) stream 6music/TV shows on iPlayer (tick)
3) Access Spotify and play music from that (tick)
4) access e-mails (tick)
5) stream music from a NAS drive (tick, but needs work)
6) play music from a library on SD card to a suitable audio standard (tick)
So really all I want to do now is get a better UPnP player app than the one on applib, which shouldn't be hard now I have Aptoide (which appears to be some sort of app loader which, rather than downloading the apps from Android Market, downloads them from a cache held elsewhere).
I might explore the Skype functionality for when I'm abroad, I might also explore getting movies onto it (and downloading iPlayer programmes), again for when I'm abroad.
Edit: I feel I have to point out again that this little gadget only cost £120. It's really quite a bargain IMHO.
Just thought I'd add to the thread since I bought the Arnova 10 G2 from Comet - £150.
It's really very good. Definitely not as slick as an ipad (suprise!) but it's perfectly functional and I've found browsing and watching videos on it absolutely fine. Games seem to work well. Er that's kind of it really - it's up to the job though you may have to wait a second or two on opening something memory hungry and sometimes there's a bit of lag on scrolling big web pages. If you're really important/busy/showing off to your mates then that may be an issue for you 🙂
I use Dolphin HD (available in appslib) as the browser using the 'desktop' mode and it works very well - near enough like using a 'proper' computer and browser.
The appslib is a bit crap though - some decent stuff is there but plenty of the other things I want (that are on the proper Android Market) aren't. There's an easy way round this (see below) for now though arctool should soon allow the full market to be installed.
For now, if you have an android phone already, just backup all your apps to the SD card (Astro is a free app that will do this) and then stick the SD card in the Arnova tab and you can just run/install the programs from there (sdcard/backups). Note though that paid for apps don't seem to work doing this though.
Htc jetstream looks the tits tbh. If I was after a tablet thats the one I would have. The only problem is you cant get it over here yet only usa has it. Shame really cos it looks a nice bit of kit thats an alternative to the ipad
OK, so what do you recomend for a 74 year old mother who is tehcno phobic???
works good for me
Update? How are the Arnova 10 G2's going?
Battery life decent?
Is it worth spending a bit more on vega or similar?