Expensive Tablets V Cheap Epads

I just bought a Samsung Galaxy II tab for my husband...I'm hoping he likes it. I only bought it on a cyber-Monday deal for $100 off on Amazon.

I've heard great reviews from the cheaper, lower-end Android tabs, though...someone I know bought some $50 one and it seems awesome

 

Oh, I have a dongle. It just won't work with the epad. I've tried other ISP's - no luck. I did a bit of looking, and apparently it's recognising it as a mass storage device rather than a dongle : /

 

I bought a Mini Wireless MiFi WiFi LAN WAN Mobile Hotspot 3G USB Router Modem Broadband - from access brother.
The dongle free version cost 2-3 times more.




http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mini-Wire...584&pid=100015&prg=1006&rk=1&sd=160918312679&

Everything is now good to go. I was a like a little kid when my tablet recognised the device and it all worked perfectly. :2thumbsup:

 

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105...true-linux-tablet-hits-its-mark-on-indiegogo/

 

That'll be my next one
http://www.pengpod.com/

 

They all run linux. Android uses a linux kernel so it's not that much of a stretch.
http://linuxonandroid.blogspot.ca/p/downloads.html

I wouldn't bother with linux until they develop full hardware Mali GPU driver support. I think it is just a matter of time and then linux will really blow up on these things but for now it is quite slow and limited. I'm also patiently waiting for XBMC with full hardware GPU support for full framerate on 720p video.

Cortex A8 is old and slow. The Cortex version is the most important thing to look for. They try to fool you with "A10" or "A13", those are just Cortex A8's running slightly different speeds. Forget the first letters and look for actual Cortex A#, number of cores and frequency. A single core Cortex A9 will run circles around an A8. Then there's dual cores which some might mark as quad cores because it is a dual combined CPU+GPU. Then there's A15 which are very fast high end and true quad core...

 

Thanks for the info.


One thing I did want to know is - usually I keep my laptop plugged in, and run it via the mains rather than the battery.
Can a cheaper tablet handle that too?
I don't want to burn anything out or destroy the battery etc.
Obviously if it gets warm I'd unplug it, but is it ok?
If I'm at work it can be plugged in for over 8 hours.

 

yes, unless it actually says don't leave plugged in for longer than X amount of hours. Which it shouldn't say, that would be a big indicator that you have some sketchy hardware. With a cheap tablet there could be a chance that the charger provided might not be up to the task but I find 2A 5V USB type chargers all the time at thrift stores. Adding a higher amp charger than provided should be fine as long as volts are the same.

 

It is a 5V 2A power cord.

 

Should be good...

Hey, what do you know! XBMC with Mali hardware acceleration just released yesterday!

http://mirrors.xbmc.org/test-builds...61-android-hwaccel-armeabi-v7a.apk.mirrorlist