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I've really been looking around for a tablet. I don't want to spend any more than $300. I would like a tablet that has good dev support but is also a nice device. I don't care if I have to buy it off of ebay for me to get it in my price range. I like 7" and 10" preferably with a dual core. Any suggestions?
Edit: I would also like for it to most likely be able to run honeycomb in the future. Official or not.
The Acer Iconia A100 just came out with an MSRP of $329, I'm sure it will get a lot of attention by the development community.
At that price, the nook color is probably you're best bet.
I personally am a netbook user.
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Nick N said:
The Acer Iconia A100 just came out with an MSRP of $329, I'm sure it will get a lot of attention by the development community.
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It's getting pretty mediocre reviews so far.
+1 at the price mentioned, nookCOLOR running CM7
Normally I would agree with the NC, but only if trying to spend around $200. For $129 more (new vs recert), you get:
Dual core 1Ghz processor (vs NC single 800Mhz)
Mini-HDMI
Honeycomb 3.2
1GB RAM vs 512MB
Front and rear camera
Is the Nook Color rooted with CM7 worth buying? Or is it better to pony up a little more for one of the more robust tablets?
Cares said:
Is the Nook Color rooted with CM7 worth buying? Or is it better to pony up a little more for one of the more robust tablets?
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Depends on what you want to do with it.
You can browse the web, play games like Angry Birds, watch Netflix, listen to Pandora or Google Music, read epub books...
I recommend buying recertified to get the most value. I bought mine from Overstock and you could not tell it was not new. $199 shipped. Ebay has them for $180 shipped.
Nook Color with CM7 is your best bet if you can live without Bluetooth. (Well technically there is an on board bluetooth chip that has been enabled in CM7 but without an antenna it's range is about 2 inches
No cameras....but the only time I have heard of a camera being used on a tablet it was a punchline in a comics joke.
Bottom line, Nook Color is the best $200 I ever spent. Only missing piece for me is bluetooth.
What about the gtab. Do you think its a good buy if I can get one for 240 with a dock?
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Asus Transformer hands down. Laptop dock, SD card slot, HDMI out, honeycomb, front and rear camera. Beautiful tablet and dirt cheap at 299
Edit: can't find it for that prize anymore but it's worth the extra 50 at Amazon or target
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DirtyShroomz said:
Asus Transformer hands down. Laptop dock, SD card slot, HDMI out, honeycomb, front and rear camera. Beautiful tablet and dirt cheap at 299
Edit: can't find it for that prize anymore but it's worth the extra 50 at Amazon or target
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For that price, he'd be better of going to staples.com using the 100$ rebate off tablets, then get a toshiba thrive for 329 [after 100$ off] for the 8gb model, then just use a bigger sd card, along with all the full ports.
Asus is 16gb
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You can get the HP touchpad right now at staples for around $325
phistyle said:
You can get the HP touchpad right now at staples for around $325
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That is mighty tempting I really enjoy web os.
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I don't own any Bluetooth devices...don't even use one on my phone. No loss for me.
I think I'll look into getting a refurb Nook color.
Hi everyone,
I've already asked a similar question concerning the Asus transformer tablet and now I'm wondering if the same applies to the galaxy tab. Basically, what are the chances of a decent discount price in the next few weeks before I return home to NZ? I'm located in Manhattan at the moment.
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Got mine off amazon for 449 yesterday.
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The best I could find after looking since black Friday was 50.00 off so when best buy had it on sale yesterday I finally picked one up!
Best of luck finding a lower price. If you do make sure to post it up.
http://www.cowboom.com/product/819925
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I got mine for ~$350 at Walmart
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(Sorry, I can't post links, so just remove the &s and replace the & before net with a .)
i got mine for $319 from Woot about six weeks ago.
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BoulderGeek said:
i got mine for $319 from Woot about six weeks ago.
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Me too! For $319, this thing kicks ass. Though it kicks ass for any price.
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i got mine for $319 from Woot about six weeks ago.
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Refurb though
Cheapest I've seen is $449 - holding out for $399 sale
bought one at harvey norman auckland boxing day sale
540 nzd incl. Gst
Staples had a $100 of any tablet in august so I picked up a new one then for $399
HHgregg is selling it for $400.
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Staples had a $100 of any tablet in august so I picked up a new one then for $399
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Me too. Best deal eva!
In Canada, Either Best Buy or Futureshop had $100 off the Galaxy Tab 10.1 as well as many other tablets.
I guess nobody has purchased the $32Gb version? Am I the only one?
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I guess nobody has purchased the $32Gb version? Am I the only one?
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100$ for 16gigs of space? Rip off. They purposefully left the sdcard slot out to lure us into this cash cow just like apple. Samsung should know better. My phone has more gigs...and a faster, better processor at that! The tab still is the best honeycomb out there tho.
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Consider it a "ripoff" if you want. For my thinking the only way to get the space is to buy it with the tablet. I'd rather spend $100 now than run short of space later.
Ha! Endoran, everywhere I see you posting, you sound like a toolbag. Are you a teenager?
My phone has 40GB of space. But, it doesn't have a Tegra2, and I doubt yours does as well.
However, the GTab 10.1 rocks, with Task's ROM. Who cares how much storage is local? Storage comes and goes. I have servers with 32GB of RAM and terabytes of disk. Yet 16GB onboard is more than sufficient for my tablet.
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bought my 32gb from best buy cuz it was an open box (a return) for $525 couple days before christmas.
They have them at walmart for 400 witch is less than I paid
Sorry if this is wrong forum, but I am looking at buying a tablet, and I was thinking about getting one of these cheapo chinese tablets.
The specs are higher than the specs for tablets made by samsung or motorola and for less than half the price so I was wondering what I should be looking for when deciding between one china tab and another one. Any tablets someone recommends running ICS?
Thanx!
You get what you pay for man...build quality and dev will be low
If you want to go cheap, you can just buy a used Nook Color for around $100.
You can also easily score a Dell Streak 7 or a Acer A100 for less than or around $200 on eBay.
There were refurb HTC Flyers posted a few weeks ago for 189$ shipped after coupon code...
Just shop around
I just did a post about a tablet I got on Amazon. It has to be Chinese made for the price, but I love it. Works great for me and seems to be a LOT like my friends Kindle fire. Here's the link to the thread with specs.
If you can, you should wait for the google tablet by Asus coming out in a few month. The price is not bad at all and I'm sure there's going to be a ton of Dev support.
Like dude said, with Chinese tablet you get what you pay for. Not worth it in the long run.
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If you want performance, specs, and dev support on the cheap, you're going to want to pick up a HP Touchpad off CL or eBay. If you shop around you can get a 16 gb for around $150 and a 32 GB for about 2 bills.
10" screen, dual core, awesome speakers, dual boots Android ICS and WebOS, practically unbrickable. Made by a credible company who sporadically decided to stop making tablets and sell all of their stock for pennies on the dollar. That's going to be your best quality, cheap tablet.
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getbuzzin said:
If you can, you should wait for the google tablet by Asus coming out in a few month. The price is not bad at all and I'm sure there's going to be a ton of Dev support.
Like dude said, with Chinese tablet you get what you pay for. Not worth it in the long run.
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I disagree. I was looking for a lower priced tablet, preferably running ics and have good support. I found www.eforchina.com and browsed thru their stuff. I found the Ainol novo 7 Elf. A 7" tabled running ics, with a cortex a8 allwinner cpu 1,2 ghz. 1gb of ddr3 ram, hdmi and usb ports. All that for 125 euro's. I figured i may be disappointed, but we'll see. When i got it, i couldnt be more pleased with it. Its fast, there is plenty of support, its got everything except a big pricetag. I know have three of these in my family. All work pefectly. Hope this helps.
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So looks like Best Buy will be selling a new 16GB TF300 on Black Friday for $279.00. The dock is an additional $99.00
What's new about this TF300 is that it will be black, a color that Best Buy is touting as an exclusive.
You can see it here (jump to page 15):
http://blackfriday.com/stores/best-buy/flyers/black-friday
And they will probably only have a hand full available to the few lucky people that get there first.I'm glad I have a buddy that works there
Look around for a pristine TF201 and you'll have a far better deal than the plastic body, crappy screened TF300
That to me sounds like a fair deal but not a complete door-buster.
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For $20 more, Office Depot is offering the 32gb TF 300 at $299.99 http://www.2012blackfridayads.com/officedepot/
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For $20 more, Office Depot is offering the 32gb TF 300 at $299.99 http://www.2012blackfridayads.com/officedepot/
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Yep, that's the one I ended up with. Took the 16gb back to Best Buy the next day and got the one from Office depot. 16 more gb's for $20 was a great deal. I'll be checking with Office depot from now on.
Got mine 32gig for $269. I got the manager to match the price of Groupon. They didn't know what is the difference between the 16 gig and 32 gig
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Got mine 32gig for $269. I got the manager to match the price of Groupon. They didn't know what is the difference between the 16 gig and 32 gig
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That is similar to what happened to me. I got mine from Staples and had the clerk price match to the best buy deal. It wasn't until I got home that I realized the clerk had given me the 32gb model which my local Staples was selling for $399.99. Regardless of the price, I am very happy with my purchase. This is a great tablet and I am excited to get back into the android dev world!
WM had them for 319 for two days. That's where I got mine.
Nice to see that quite a few people have purchased the tf300t.
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Got mine at Sams Club. Com, 1$ cheaper than Best Buy. SAVINGS!
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For $20 more, Office Depot is offering the 32gb TF 300 at $299.99 http://www.2012blackfridayads.com/officedepot/
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I got a similar deal off amazon. It was a 32mb for $319. The office depo deal would have been around that once you add tax. I am VERRY happy with this tablet!
In case anyone was wondering Bestbuy.com was selling the black tf300t for $279 all weekend with free shipping and they never sold out. Amazing deal! I purchased mine on monday.
I just got my $300 refurbished TF300 16GB and keyboard dock bundle from woot.com I ordered just before Black Friday.
Hate to say it, but I'm kinda regretting the purchase. Unfortunately after using higher DPI 7 inch tablets and an iPad 3, I am struggling with the fonts on the TF300. It's not just web browsing, but fonts almost everywhere look terrible. Twitter is making my eyes bleed.
And the tablet is surprisingly slower than I expected. I set it to performance mode, but couldn't see a difference.
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I just got my $300 refurbished TF300 16GB and keyboard dock bundle from woot.com I ordered just before Black Friday.
Hate to say it, but I'm kinda regretting the purchase. Unfortunately after using higher DPI 7 inch tablets and an iPad 3, I am struggling with the fonts on the TF300. It's not just web browsing, but fonts almost everywhere look terrible. Twitter is making my eyes bleed.
And the tablet is surprisingly slower than I expected. I set it to performance mode, but couldn't see a difference.
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Now that's strange because mine are great. I'm also running a custom ROM with an overclocked kernel and my tablet is fast as can be. I'm getting some great benchmark scores too.
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Now that's strange because mine are great. I'm also running a custom ROM with an overclocked kernel and my tablet is fast as can be. I'm getting some great benchmark scores too.
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I have compared the tf300 to an Amazon kindle fire (which has a damn high pixel density)
I prefer the screen on the tf300
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I have compared the tf300 to an Amazon kindle fire (which has a damn high pixel density)
I prefer the screen on the tf300
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DPI on the Kindle Fire isn't that good either. You mean the Fire HD? I have the Fire HD and to the screen is a helluva lot better on that the TF300.
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Now that's strange because mine are great. I'm also running a custom ROM with an overclocked kernel and my tablet is fast as can be. I'm getting some great benchmark scores too.
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Yeah, I'm gonna need to get a custom ROM and kernel on this. Stock experience is pretty slow for something with a Tegra 3 in it.
Kindle fire and the iPad 2 have same dpi
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Sadly, I can't afford a brand new tablet, especially this one.
HOWEVER, I was given a $500 Staples gift card for my birthday and buying this tablet seems like the perfect use for it!
Sadly, for some unknown reason, Staples doesn't have this tablet in stock. Not on the website, not in the stores.
No one at Staples can give me an ETA. No one at Samsung can give me an ETA.
Anyone else have this type of experience before (by which I mean waiting on new technology from Staples, not incredible impatience like mine) or know how long it takes Staples to carry brand new awesome tablets?
I may have a solution. You should try selling your gift card to someone on Craigslist for 450 or something.
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