My 2 day adventure of being an eReader owner is at an end. And I actually feel I have regained my integrity.
I got it because, I wanted a tablet, it was cheap, it ran Android, so I can run my fave apps on it and Gale wanted to be able to read magazines on it.
It was cheap(ish), compared to other tablets. Because it’s not a tablet. It’s an eReader made by a company famous for their ground breaking work in digital picture frames and just happens to use Android to run the 3 apps it comes with. As for the processor, I don’t know what it is but I can hear it ticking.
It had a REALLY cut down version of Android that didn’t have Market Place on it! So I couldn’t download Gmail, Kindle, Angry Birds or pretty much anything else. It did have Barnes and Noble, but not the cool Nook app.
The magazines that Gale really wants to read are graphic art and they are not available electronically. The one thing we did download didn’t have pictures, but rather a URL which opened up the picture.
I did manage to hack it so it was rooted, had the market place, kindle, facebook, gmail and was Android 2.0 rather than 1.5 it came with. But damage done. It’s slow, low resolution (my phone is a quarter the size and has a higher resolution screen and even with the nice discount I got (40% off off half of the retail) it’s still a POS. And I don’t mean Point of Sale.
So, back it goes. Of course, it’s my department at work, so I have to resell it. So I won’t mention any of this when I sell it. I will say that it’s a good budget e-reader that lets you surf the web.
That said, it’s still rooted and has Android 2.0, has the full marketplace and Kindle installed on it. So it’s actually better than when I got it. I’m doing them a favour.
Back to my trusty netbook that has a bigger screen, runs windows 7 and has a keyboard. I’m so sorry, why did I ever consider pushing you aside for something that had a veneer of glossiness about it? Please forgive me.
Now once a Xoom comes into the store…….