Over the past few months I've written
about both using seven
inch tablets as note takers and the use of Dropbox
as an active filestore.
As an experiment, I've invested in a no
name seven inch tablet which came bundled with a usb keyboard in
handy case (all for around $125 including additional memory and a car
charger)
I ordered the device through ebay –
delivery took longer than expected, not due to any problems at the
seller's end but more due to the postal authorities at Shenzen
rejecting the package first time around, and taking two weeks to do
so. The second time the vendor sent it EMS and it arrived in under
ten days.
As a consequence, I've only just
received and configured it – I still need to use it seriously to
see how useful it is in practice.
However, its not just me that's
discovered the power of no name Android tablets from China. Last
weekend we went down to the coast and stopped off in Bateman's Bay to
pick up some bits and pieces. We were a bit later than planned and
most of the stores were winding down but Aldi was still open.
While I was lining up to pay for our
salad and fruit I noticed that they had a list of this week's
specials which included a nine inch Android tablet for around two
hundred bucks – eminently affordable and less than I paid
this time last year for my zPad ...
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